1. O abode of success, you have bequeathed sadness to me,
And my distance from you has increased my yearning.

2. How long will I remain distressed, remembering you?
I spend my nights and days wandering in grief.

3. I find no rest and never forget you,
Nor do I see an end to this torment of love.

4. Since you left, I’ve tasted no sweet life,
Nor seen from you justice or loyalty.

5. I wonder at a heart that loves you,
Yet has seen no kindness or affection from you.

6. If not for my ancestor’s misfortune, I'd not have known you.
It’s wretched he who suffers for knowing you!

7. I rave madly remembering you,
As if the memory of you has fully possessed my heart.

8. Oh, if only I knew! But alas, no relief comes
From you, neither present nor past.

9. Divert your heart away, O Abbas,
So that the agony of love may be diverted from you.

10. If only my heart could forget them, I'd forget them!
But nay, my heart is accustomed to them, by God.

11. To you I complain of her who torments me,
Of what I endure, which I've no strength to describe.

12. Oh my soul, my hearing, my sight!
How long will love of you grip my heart?

13. I did not know anxiety or anguish,
Until I drank long draughts from the cup of love.

14. Its heat flared up in my chest and caught fire,
As if it were kindling set alight.

15. Love circulated among all of God's servants,
Until when it passed by me from among them, it halted.

16. When I try to bury it one day and deny it,
Tears flow down my cheeks, confessing it.

17. I have not seen an attribute describing love
Except that I found what's in me surpasses its description.

18. My heart is sacrificed to this love, clinging,
Kneeling at night, and in the morning love wraps around me.

19. What think you of a man whose affliction grew long,
Terrified by love, fearing destruction?

20. O bliss! How are you when the house lies desolate,
Parted from you, and my soul nears departure?

21. When I saw death coming for me,
Its caller almost crying out to me, I said:

22. “I die of yearning, never to meet you,
Oh what regret! What longing! What sorrow!"