1. God favored the best of creation first
And granted him the honor of being chosen

2. He endowed him with the highest virtues
Among them the Night Journey and Ascension

3. When He sent Gibreel to him with Al-Buraq
As an ambassador none can match as envoys

4. He said your Lord calls you inviting
You to Him, what a blessed call!

5. He said mount it, so he mounted but
Al-Buraq shied in refusal

6. Gabriel said to Muhammad the Elect
Are you not shy? Where is your modesty?

7. He is the most noble of creations none
Like him rode you before out of all the generous

8. So Al-Buraq obeyed and sweat dripped from him
When shyness enveloped him

9. The full moon took him, the most perfect, Father of Al-Qasim
At night to the spacious heavenly horizon

10. It dove with him alone, the edge of sight
From it to his steps the edge

11. He passed by Mount Sinai and Moses and Jesus
And Elijah was honored by his coming

12. Then he led the prophets in prayer as imam
And through him all gained prestige in following

13. He went on rising to the highest horizon
Where sublimity, the sublime ones are

14. The prophets raced to the heavens to
Then receive him when he arrives

15. Above them like a daytime sun
The heavens disclosed him after heaven

16. The messengers welcomed the Beloved and all
In him were either fatherhood or brotherhood

17. All the spheres and what they contained
Boasted and the brilliance in them increased

18. The trusted ambassador, the best companion
Did not leave him and so did the comrades

19. When the arrival was blessed he said To bliss
If only I went first and met my demise

20. Go happily and remember my need there
O intercessor the intercessors need

21. Through him he was drowned in brilliance and light
To where all creation is behind

22. He saw God without how and likeness
No place for Him and no time

23. To Him above the heavens and below the earth
The Throne and the ground equal

24. Upon him He poured generosity pouring
And from Him he received the highest favors

25. He quenched his thirst from His sweet sea with secrets
Through which his satiation lasts

26. No prophet, messenger, or angel knows
The abundant gifts, most abundant gifts

27. God blessed him with the five prayers
Completing the favors

28. Then the honored guest went back to the people
His righteousness and love increased

29. He came back before dawn, so some people
In Mecca doubted, miserable ones

30. They exaggerated the matter though it is
A great feat none can match its greatness

31. Exalted in rank, for Him creations
Are as motes contained in the horizon

32. He gave the Prophet in a night
After it his daybreak and before evening

33. If the Almighty willed, it would be in a blink
All this and Ascension wouldn't have happened