Translation of the song ماذا أقول له artist Najat Al Saghira

ماذا أقول له لو جاء يسألني..

What shall I tell him if he came asking

إن كنت أكرهه أو كنت أهواه؟

If I'm loving him or if I'm hating him?

ماذا أقول إذا راحت أصابعه

What shall I say if his fingers started

تلملم الليل عن شعري وترعاه؟

To braid and caress the night-dark hair of mine?

وكيف أسمح أن يدنو بمقعده؟

How would I let him bring his chair closer

وأن تنام على خصري ذراعاه؟

And to lay his arms over my lap?

غداً إذا جاء .. أعطيه رسائله

Tomorrow, once he comes, I will hand him back his letters

ونطعم النار أحلى ما كتبناه

And we will feed fire the best of what we had ever written

حبيبتي! هل أنا حقا حبيبته؟

My love!1 Am I really his love?

وهل أصدق بعد الهجر دعواه؟

Should I believe his claim after such parting?

أما انتهت من سنين قصتي معه؟

Didn't my story with him end years ago?

ألم تمت كخيوط الشمس ذكراه؟

Didn't his memory die like threads of sun (rays) do?

أما كسرنا كؤوس الحب من زمن

Didn't we break the cups of love long ago

فكيف نبكي على كأس كسرناه؟

How can we cry after what we have broken?

رباه.. أشياؤه الصغرى تعذبني

Oh, God! Such trifles of his are torturing me

فكيف أنجو من الأشياء رباه؟

How can I escape them? Oh, God!

هنا جريدته في الركن مهملة

Here is his newspaper carelessly thrown around the corner

هنا كتاب معا .. كنا قرأناه

Here is a book that we once read together

على المقاعد بعض من سجائره

On the armchairs some of his cigarettes can be found

وفي الزوايا .. بقايا من بقاياه..

And at every corner some of his leftovers are left

ما لي أحدق في المرآة .. أسألها

Why do I look at the mirror asking

بأي ثوب من الأثواب ألقاه

In which dress shall I meet him?

أأدعي أنني أصبحت أكرهه؟

Am I claiming that I hate him now?

وكيف أكره من في الجفن سكناه؟

How can I hate who dwells in my eyes?

وكيف أهرب منه؟ إنه قدري

How can I escape him? He is my destiny

هل يملك النهر تغييرا لمجراه؟

Can river change its course?

أحبه .. لست أدري ما أحب به

I love him. I don't know what do I exactly love in him

حتى خطاياه ما عادت خطاياه

Even his sins for me stopped being sins

الحب في الأرض . بعض من تخلينا

Love on Earth is an imaginary fantasy

لو لم نجده عليها .. لاخترعناه

Yet, wasn't it on Earth, we would have it invented

ماذا أقول له لو جاء يسألني

What shall I tell him if he came asking

إن كنت أهواه. إني ألف أهواه..

If I'm loving him? I love him even thousand times more