«فَلَمْ يَبْقَ مِنِّي الشَّوْقُ غَيْرَ تَفَكُّرِي فَلَوْ شِئْتُ أَنْ أَبْكِيَ بَكَيْتُ تَفَكُّرَا»
Longing left me nothing but thought; if I wished to weep, I would weep thoughts.
The final “tafakkuran” prevents the image from collapsing into ordinary crying. The poet presents an imaginative exaggeration in which longing has exhausted conventional tears and left only reflection.
Retaining the relevant expression determines the unusual sense of the verse. The rhetorical force depends on what is explicitly mentioned, not simply on the verb “weep.”