1. O visitor, when there are no people around
And the night approaches with the chill of dawn

2. I said, O ultimate hope protect me
With determination to reach you I was encouraged by success

3. So when you came, O my wish and hope
Thanks to God who succeeded without hardship

4. I did not think I was close to you
For the burden upon me, O my heavy load

5. Until we drew near and our connection brought us together
The secret from you and from you did not cease

6. He gave drink to the high dune from the valley
From the clouds with lightning and hail

7. For my heart a lightning bolt from God flashed
Not from the world of forms but from the world of command

8. It made you forget all the universes
And stopped you at what is sought and missed

9. This discourse and what the keen minded discern
I wanted with it to alert, so take heed

10. O essence confined in a shell
Of a creation aiming at change and turmoil

11. His ambition is destitute, in the lowliest place
Lost in the pleasures of food, sex, and sight

12. Passions lead him, raging in him
Until they cast him into the pit of harm

13. O soul, do you accept, forever residing
In this dark troubled place?

14. Where were you before inhabiting a body?
Were you not in the holy precincts, remember!

15. You dwell with the exalted assembly, and drink from
Basins of intimacy as plucking fruit

16. The breeze of nearness comes to you welcoming,
The fragrance of beauty like scent of fresh myrtle

17. Until by God's command you were placed in a cage
To be tested, so be of the best of the tested

18. When you saw this body appear
Showing wonders of creation hidden and manifest

19. Its splendor made you forget the holiness
You witnessed from your Lord, so know the loss of life

20. I was content with reason apart from unveiling you
While immersed in reason from the clarity of truth

21. Do not settle for less than the eye's witnessing
For love, who is content with shadow and trace?

22. A promise you were given so you surrendered
This existence and all in it of others

23. Take a path to the Merciful established
By which He came to you before nomad and settled

24. Clarified in God's book, elucidated
Walk upon it, and be clothed in sincerity

25. With spiritual training, silence, and withdrawal
Abandoning opposites and keeping vigil

26. And persist upon remembrance, never tiring
For turning to Him is the spirit and aim of breasts

27. The best of prophets is our guide
With what he brought us of signs and surahs

28. My God, bless him whenever a dove coos
Above a lofty tree of the forest