بقلبي حديثٌ منك إني خبأته

بقلبي حديثٌ منك إني خبأته

اذا ما خلونا ساعةَ الوصل قلتهُ

اذا ما خلونا ساعةَ الوصل قلتهُ

In my heart is a message from you that I have kept hidden.

In my heart I have a tale of you that I have hidden

When we are alone at the hour of union, I shall tell it.

If we were alone an hour of union I would tell it

فتقرأ من شوقي كتاباً مترجماً

فتقرأ من شوقي كتاباً مترجماً

بدمعي على خدي اليك كتبتهُ

بدمعي على خدي اليك كتبتهُ

Then you will read a letter translated from my longing,

So you would read from my passion a book translated

Which I wrote to you with my tears upon my cheek.

With my tears upon my cheek to you I wrote it

وبي منك داءٌ أصلهُ كان نظرةً

وبي منك داءٌ أصلهُ كان نظرةً

عدمتُ اصطباري عنك لما وجدته

عدمتُ اصطباري عنك لما وجدته

And in me is an illness from you, whose origin was a glance.

And in me from you an illness whose origin was a glance

Once I felt it, I could no longer endure your absence.

I lost my patience with you when I found it

شوإني اذ أبصرت شخصك مقبلاً

شوإني اذ أبصرت شخصك مقبلاً

تغيرَ مني الحالُ عما عهدته

تغيرَ مني الحالُ عما عهدته

And indeed, when I saw your figure approaching,

What's wrong with me when I saw your figure approaching

My state changed from what I had known.

My condition changed from what it used to be

وقال جليسي ما لوجهك اصفرا

وقال جليسي ما لوجهك اصفرا

فقلت له بالرغم عني صبغته

فقلت له بالرغم عني صبغته

And my companion said, “Why has your face turned sallow?”

And my friend said why has your face turned yellow

So I said to him, “I dyed it against my will.”

So I told him against my will it was dyed it

سألت طبيب الحي ماذا دواؤهُ

سألت طبيب الحي ماذا دواؤهُ

فرقَّ لما أشكوهُ لما سألته

فرقَّ لما أشكوهُ لما سألته

I asked the local physician, “What is its cure?”

I asked the healer of love what its cure was

So he pitied my suffering when I asked him.

So he was gentle when I complained to him when I asked him

فمدَّ الى قلبي يداً وهو خافقٌ

فمدَّ الى قلبي يداً وهو خافقٌ

فغالطته عنه وقلتُ فقدته

فغالطته عنه وقلتُ فقدته

Then he stretched a hand toward my heart as it throbbed.

He stretched out a hand to my heart while it pounded

So I misled him about it and said, “I have lost it.”

So I misled him about it and said I had lost it

وقال لمن تهوى فقلت أهابه

وقال لمن تهوى فقلت أهابه

ويسبقني دمعي اذا ما ذكرتهُ

ويسبقني دمعي اذا ما ذكرتهُ

And he said, “For whom do you yearn?” I said, “I fear him.”

And he said to whom do you love so I said I fear him

And my tears outrun me whenever I mention him.

And my tears outrun me whenever I mention him