1. The young lovers have surrendered
To my love and bowed to me in submission

2. They turned their faces to me in prayer
And bowed to my station when they became Muslims

3. They whispered their secrets before me in alms
Speaking gently in my ear

4. Had they reached the Kaaba in their love
Besides my Kaaba God would not accept them

5. Their believer believes in me
And the one who affirms me affirms

6. They were enraptured with love of me and raved
With others for the sake of strangers' love and fancied

7. And through me they saw the way of lovers
While the people of deviance were blind to my creed

8. So the inner meaning of my words is clear to lovers
But to beasts it is ambiguous

9. I make no claims upon lovers
But my tongue translates their passions

10. And their followers in love are my followers
They are me in it, and I am them