1. If you had what I have of sorrow
You wouldn’t have slept, oh night, from my agony and longing

2. And if you found what I found that fateful day
You wouldn’t have left, but you didn’t find

3. I complain of passion, and I complain that it may leave me
And who loves the soul’s separation from the body?

4. You’re the doctor and the disease and it’s wondrous
Who taught the gazelle the violence of the lion?

5. Whenever I pass your valleys and thickets
I find a chill pierce through to my liver

6. So no caravan speaks of your lands
Except I place my wounded heart in my hands

7. Give me back my heart that strayed into your camps
I turned it away from you but it wouldn’t return

8. They bid me farewell like a dear sibling but neither
Parting nor farewell settled in my experience

9. If what’s in me didn’t restrain the red camels
They wouldn’t be held back by either rope or fetter

10. If what’s in my heart the day you left
Could flow with water or ignite with fire

11. The monk said: endure herturning astray and passion
But how can I gather sorrow and composure?

12. O rider of the wind, do you know a cure?
Tell me again, and add on!

13. Have new leaves budded on the valley’s oleander by Mount Tuwa
Has a wave sated that cold clear spring?

14. Why do I yearn for the land of Junah though
I have no people nor family nor children there?

15. If not for the jurist and the blessings of his grace
I would have perished between nearing and distance

16. Ibn Hussein has consoled me since I descended upon
The twitter and songbirds’ melody

17. Bijaylly, sublime of manners, has welcomed me
Sharper than musk or sweeter than honey

18. He is the compassionate one, and when I say ‘the brother’ he feels
He is the generous one when rain is scarce

19. Blessed of face, his wisdom makes him know
Tomorrow’s happenings before they occur

20. Each day he calls “O heedless ones, redeem yourselves!”
“O thirsty ones, come back!”

21. A raincloud for one stranded, salvation for one exhausted
A comfort for every lonely foreigner

22. Whoever turns away from him has lost his way
Whoever comes to guidance comes to my Abu Abdullah

23. The caravan doesn’t ask after him, his magnificence
Is the morning, and what morning isn’t clear!

24. May Allah dress him in what He doesn’t create the like of
So he never removes his new robes

25. And Allah has honored him and Allah has elevated him
So he doesn’t fear the touch of any lessening

26. Go where you wish, sheltered,
In Allah’s protection, guided and reasonable

27. If you stay where the land is green and growing
The necklace looks beautiful on the graceful neck

28. You reminded of Allah in an age when
All hearts forgot when listening to gossip

29. And how many wrongdoers have you forgiven
Without any grudge held in your heart!

30. You never stop pardoning and clearing away faults should they slip
The pardon of nobles, drawing near each distant one

31. If they anger you, you are forbearing and covering
If they wrong you, you are in safety and plenty

32. If not for your pleasure this nation would be scattered
You always unite the bonds of the fragmented nation

33. Gentle with them, never lacking in restraint
The generous man overlooks, and the eminent man is restrained

34. When we see you we say this is the son of Amina
Alive in the womb of Yathrib, never absent

35. Love of you remains a faith to us early ones
And in our children, so loving the Shaykh is like loving one’s child

36. We have never known an era you did not honor
And we have never been without you for a time