سائِلاً قَنداً خَليلي

سائِلاً قَنداً خَليلي

كَيفَ أَرواحُ رُقَيَّه

كَيفَ أَرواحُ رُقَيَّه

Ask Qand, my two friends,

Asking my friend Qanda

how Ruqayya's spirits fare.

How are the souls of delicacy

إِنَّني بُدِّلتُ مِنها

إِنَّني بُدِّلتُ مِنها

بَدَلاً حُبَّ إِلَيَّه

بَدَلاً حُبَّ إِلَيَّه

Indeed, I have been given in her stead

I have been changed from it

a replacement dear to me.

To the love of it being changed

إِنَّني بُدِّلتُ خَوداً

إِنَّني بُدِّلتُ خَوداً

ذاتَ دَلٍّ بَختَرِيَّه

ذاتَ دَلٍّ بَختَرِيَّه

Indeed, I have been given a young maiden in exchange,

I have been changed, a cheek

endowed with coy charm and a proud gait,

With a dangling bucket

غادَةَ الجِسمِ رَداحاً

غادَةَ الجِسمِ رَداحاً

مِثلَ قَرنِ الشَمسِ هِيَّه

مِثلَ قَرنِ الشَمسِ هِيَّه

soft of body and ample-hipped;

The body swings back

she is like the sun's rising rim.

Like the horn of the sun it sways

نَبَتَت كَالغُصنِ وَسطَ ال

نَبَتَت كَالغُصنِ وَسطَ ال

ماءِ فَرعى قُرَشِيَّه

ماءِ فَرعى قُرَشِيَّه

She grew like a branch amid the

It grew like a branch in the middle of

water—a long-haired woman of Quraysh.

Water a Qurashi tribe grazed

فَاِبتَغي غَيري صَديقاً

فَاِبتَغي غَيري صَديقاً

ثُمَّ لا تَأسى عَلَيَّه

ثُمَّ لا تَأسى عَلَيَّه

So seek someone other than me as a friend,

So seek other than me as a friend

then do not grieve for me.

Then do not despair for me