1. I did not go to you as a messenger of hopes
If I had any intention other than you to seek

2. And when to any word but yours I lent an ear
My hearing and heart from your guidance did not abstain

3. O you whom with love I am filled, for him I yearn
From people's preoccupations I have been set free

4. Neither comer nor goer in your shade is denied
Clear for whom upon it protection is bestowed

5. Thus my heart spoke no lies, nor my eyes untrue
My sight from it did not stray nor transgress its view

6. Therefore what it made firm, cannot be erased
A vision of the absent One, in whom my thoughts are plunged

7. O you for whom I am distracted, and my love for you
And but you, my face to turn nowhere else sought

8. Hasten my patience's return to you
I will make those who sought drink the cup of death

9. Upon you, what is between me and all creation
Of enviers and adversaries on the day of agony

10. And I defeated the oath-breakers for my pledge
When I from their abode a camel hamstrung