1. This sacred place, so pause now at its doors
Swaying in rapture for joining its throng

2. O how long you roamed each distant camp
Dusty, seeking to meet its lords

3. You traversed the miles, crying out
Your quest for good and asking for guidance

4. Until tears streamed down your cheeks
Flowing on this plain from their downpour

5. A life, though so precious when given
Spent seeking these abodes and their roads

6. Disobeying those who dissuaded
Deaf you remained to their words of caution

7. Good tidings to me, though pariah am I
With arduous passion my easy desire

8. God granted what I so wished and worked for
And struggled to grasp its essence and core

9. I relinquished my games and met troubles instead
And tribulations from its demands

10. I drank the cups of parting, so bitter made
Mixed as they were with discord and sorrow

11. I gave to its guides gifts so dear to me
And granted them the best of what I could give

12. So I pitched my tent amid devotees
And settled it into their valleys to live

13. I quenched my soul, so long suffering
Crossing the wastes of its plains and its hills

14. From my neck I removed the staff of roaming
No more fearing the shame of goodbyes

15. I, though no boast, am its lands' best scout
Its lofty crags are known well to me

16. I know all its trees and the fields about
I can tell what its signs truly mean

17. O you Prophet's son, knowing the seen and unseen
None knows better than you what I speak

18. Ask not about this shrine, for before you
Its rebellion was tamed and bowed to its peak

19. For a time you drank from its springs
Tasting the sweetest its wardens could give

20. In its gardens you rested, so blithe and serene
Smiling, delighted by all you perceive

21. Submit then - you can solve any trouble or puzzle
That perplexed all the world and hid its true face

22. Take my words - no misguidance they cradle
No bias spurred me to swerve from truth's grace

23. It has two kinds of people, one kind that has shed
All but love for their Lord and their brothers beside

24. No more tugged by the world and its comforts and bread
For their needs and their drinks they no longer strive

25. They walk the path of the rightly led
Leaving matters to God, straight and with pride

26. Content with whatever God sends for their needs
No distress when the world spurns them aside

27. Belittling it, sure of its fading allure
And the nearness of its pleasures' demise

28. Shunning its transient and futile lure
Seeking lasting rewards in the heavens on high

29. Their creed is the love of their Lord alone
Reining in wayward passions that lead men awry

30. With such fine comrades, this place is now graced
For this breed, let affection be tied

31. They attained the sole goal that gives meaning true
The heart of faith leaving no doubts inside

32. Many walked as companions this road
In the steps of Mohammed, blessed guide

33. Among them Giffari brought rest to his ride
And Qarnee raced ahead by its side

34. Fuzeil and Junaid both reveling drank
From passion's cup, craving its surge and its tide

35. Bishr likewise and Adham quickened the pace
As did Kayena'i striding beside

36. As for those who rejected its wisdom and grace
Drunkenly sharing the wine of their pride

37. Deeming violation of rights wholly allowed
Believing most worthy themselves to decide

38. Hallaj blazed their trail of misguidance and fraud
And Muhaiyddeen strayed from the path far and wide

39. Cursed ibn Sab'een in his ignorance trod
Deluded, drunken in folly and lies

40. And Jilani spurred on his steed down that road
Then Sa'eed pursued it and so testified

41. And Tilmisani proclaimed all is allowed
Take and enjoy it, no more need be tried

42. If what the Imams related holds true
Then theirs is blasphemy, faith they denied

43. To call them infidels, we are thus bound
Though the vilest of men would approve of their side

44. They made clear that what they intended is found
In our words, as we stated before in this ode

45. They toyed with religion, conspiring to hound
And raze its foundations in quest of their code

46. Instead of the One, multitudes they espoused
Approving innovation and musical mode

47. Their jurist enjoined their misguidance aroused
Inviting to error, this path he bestrode

48. He craved prophethood, mindless of marring its crown
Dooming himself by provoking God's rod

49. A human in name, but apostate in town
No doubter in him, deep immersed in its tide

50. They brayed their unison, sermoning down
From pulpits, then uttered the falsest of lies

51. No infidelity equals on earth, writ or bound
Such words, if sincerely held and applied

52. So end such conjecture, be not one to dress
A carcass in robes, keeping rot inside

53. These omens of woe, clues enough to express
Their creed can be found in verses implied