فلو أنها إذْ حانَ وقتُ حِمامها

فلو أنها إذْ حانَ وقتُ حِمامها

أُحَكَّمُ في أمري لشاطرتها عمري

أُحَكَّمُ في أمري لشاطرتها عمري

If only, when the hour of her death came,

If when her bathing time arrived,

I had been given control over my fate, I would have given her half my life;

I could control my fate, I'd share my life with her.

فحلّ بنا المقدارُ في ساعة معاً

فحلّ بنا المقدارُ في ساعة معاً

فماتت ولا أدري ومتُّ ولا تدري

فماتت ولا أدري ومتُّ ولا تدري

Then fate would have overtaken us together in the same hour,

But destiny befell us both one hour together,

And she would have died without my knowing, and I without her knowing.

She died, unaware, and I died, unaware.