1. I set out with the pillow of my secret
And descended into a feverish love for her abode

2. And I recall traits I have longed for
Your soul emanates fragrances that captivate people

3. As if the moons on their parchments
Were woven and musk was in their dust

4. Yes, where is musk compared to her soil?
And the radiance of the moons to her moons?

5. Her trees are minds, silently growing
Subtleties of knowledge as their fruits

6. Clearing the motes in eyes with their brilliance
And gladdening hearts with their greenery

7. The garden of understanding grows in her thickets
So the patterns are tied into her flowers

8. And if you contemplate the streams of the unseen
They are brooks glorifying in her rivers

9. Dazzling is her splendor, you'd think
The new moons were crowned by her freshness

10. From every valley shone its depths
The voice of charm from her birds

11. Those birds took form prostrating
Ruby adorns their beaks

12. As if hearts were part of her ranks
Birds nestling in their burrows

13. By God, the depths of my love for her
Are a pyre aflame with its fires

14. O rider of passions, if you alight
And the sun surprises you on its course

15. Then reason with it, for she has
A gazelle fearful of being startled

16. It's inevitable for the lover that he never
Turns his conscience to others, even one day

17. She tied the hearts' love, all of them
United minds knotted in her bonds

18. She ruled her lofty throne
And her troops of beauty became her guard

19. She exerted her command in both horizons
And the heart of time was awed by her dangers

20. As if the Raefa'i saint was her sheikh
And his mysterious being her supporter

21. The signs of his guidance defeated
The gang of misguidance by persisting

22. Recited on the minbars of supremacy though
The light of nearness gleams in her news

23. Circling her, gnosis is duty-bound even for
The lowliest and greatest of people

24. And the righteous overflow with her abundance
Whether absent or present among her

25. To God belongs that master of resolve
Whose seas of conquest surge with foam

26. Observing his followers with his determination
And undertaking the ultimate goal insistently

27. And cutting the cord of enmity with a blow
Revealing wondrous fatality in his sharpness

28. His conduct filled the tablets of the unseen
The pages of existence summarized in her

29. The masters of the party of saints sought refuge in him
So he poured hearts into his molds

30. Her poles clung to his tail
And his secret circulated among her greatest

31. Her notables kept to his sanctuary
So he protected them from disgrace through his merit

32. And how many nights in her plain
The lion prowled round its shortness

33. The lion of the jungle crouches at his door
And the lamb reclines on her wall

34. He followed, guided by his father Mustafa’s wisdom,
With wisdom beyond any match

35. And from him came guidance’s downpour in
Reviving our land both far and near

36. For him the best of soils after his fathers
The prime leaders of creation, her finest

37. For him the white hand that extended to him
The hand of God’s Messenger from his tomb

38. The chamber split in reverence for him
And the veiled was uncovered from its cloak

39. And the pleasure of his merit engulfed it
And its abundant favor drowned it

40. So good fortune came to him through its acceptance
And eternity through its vestiges

41. He was blessed through the greatest Hashimite
His noble self the shield of her neighbor

42. He made him apparent with her first glance
When all the age's powers were concealed

43. For God’s sake strive, my master, with a look
To obtain openings through her glances

44. Join with affection—my soul is pledged, for it
Has burdened me, my lord, apart from your presence

45. You in this house are sheikh of the faction
Whose great ones incline toward their small

46. Upon you still descend the dews of pleasure
Pouring with love from her cisterns

47. And Abdul Qadir the Gilani, sheikh of
Sheikhs, the famous gnostic lion

48. And Sami the high-minded Bedouin, my generation’s treasure
Father of chivalrous youths, the zealous guardian

49. And Jehjah the protector, the Qutb of Desouk
Far-reaching, valiant, and formidable

50. They four in the people are cycles
Through them confused matters are illuminated

51. The mystics' breasts without dispute
And all the people of God are breasts