1. My praise for you, is it glorification or hymning?
Without you, praise would not forgive sins.

2. I was told that my praises of Mustafa
Are atonement for me, and this is true.

3. Profit through the one whose praise you have guided,
Indeed the generous profits from the profited.

4. O my soul, apart from you is the praise of Ahmad, it is
A perfume whose scent the spirit and soul have clung to.

5. Your greatest share of the remembrance whose
Fragrance emanates to its listeners.

6. Indeed the Prophet Muhammad was from his Lord
Generously endowed with every virtue.

7. God favored him and made great his worth,
So excellence and preference become him.

8. If he came after the messengers, his superiority
After him came Christ and Noah.

9. They came with their revelation and he came with his revelation
As if he were a bright star amongst the stars.

10. How can a man limit it and define it
With words when it is the spirit of existence itself?

11. Some people rejected his testimony though they had
No criticism or rebuke against it.

12. He certainly brought clear proofs
Had the observer of those who disobeyed been sound.

13. They knew him with the recognition of certainty yet denied,
Indeed the wretched are impetuous to misery.

14. So he destroyed those who showed defiance to him
For the sword from the hardship of dissent is a relief.

15. The darkness of injustice receded when
Parchments and sheets flowed to him.

16. Two things dispel misguidance apart from them:
An outpouring light or spilled blood.

17. Strange that they deny prophecy
Though Adam's spirit was not yet breathed.

18. Why should I busy myself with rebuking them as though I
Were a fault-finder amongst the sects?

19. Do not fatigue a heart tomorrow with mention of them
And find solace for it in mentioning Muhammad.

20. Spread the accounts of the Prophet for all you
Relay of the news of the Beloved is beautiful.

21. And mention his virtues whose expressions
The heavens and tablets fell short of containing.

22. Are you astonished that the cloud became a sign
For Muhammad, going early and returning?

23. Or that horses came to him obediently
As if orchards came to meadows?

24. And for the spring whose aid brought relief
The pebbles flowed to it praising.

25. Or that a withered trunk inclined
Longingly, complaining of its affliction and grieving,

26. Until the Prophet drew near to it and whoever drew near to him
Melancholy distanced from his heart?

27. And that the arm spoke to him - how then could it not
Unburden its secret and confide to him?

28. And that the blind could see, and the stick turned
Into a sword, and the dead lived though prone?

29. And that people gained succor through him though they had complained
Of a place on the earth that had become barren for them?

30. And that a spring overflowed fresh water for him
Though its water had once been bitter and foul?

31. O coolness for parched livers which
The meadow of Muhammad's illumination quenched!

32. May God send blessings upon him, indeed His blessings
Are rain dispelling the illnesses of sins.

33. He traveled by night with his body so it was as if
He were a hero riding Al-Buraq with haste.

34. He drew near so no hopeful hand stretched
Greedily, no eye looked to Him aspiringly,

35. Until God revealed to him what
He revealed, and the time to return drew near.

36. Al-Buraq returned with him, and his garment of leather
Was perfumed that night with his bashfulness.

37. So leave the devils who disbelieved in him
Suggesting to them whatever they may suggest.

38. By God, their alleged ambiguities about him
Are but as the convulsions of the slaughtered.

39. What comparison between a body whose movements
Are animated by a spirit, and wood the wind sways?

40. The Prophet Muhammad and his knowledge -
Perfection and imperfections were not yet recognized.

41. God entrusted affairs to him so none but him
Could undertake or relinquish.

42. Those who deified their rabbis went astray
To prohibit, permit, and legitimize.

43. O chosen nation, you have been compensated
For what you suffered, and the afflicted are disgraced.

44. So receive good tidings of God's trade with you
In it the scale of loyalty is weighty.

45. And make up for the price of your souls through guidance
For through guidance the price of souls profits.

46. O You whose treasuries of generosity are full,
Generosity, whose door of giving is open!

47. We call on You in poverty and need,
And Your favor is ample to pardon transgressors.

48. So pardon the sinful servant out of generosity,
The generous pardons the sinner.

49. Accept the Messenger of God's apology for the deficient,
He through Your praise of the praised reaches sufficiency.

50. Roaming in every valley of Your attributes, swimming
In every sea of Your bounty.

51. He finds rest if the Sanctuary and its stones are mentioned,
And seeing You, and Your bush, and creeper.

52. Yearning for a holy precinct, blessed and secure,
Its meadow and tomb perfumed through that.

53. I hope that through its nearness
My eye will find rest, and my wounded heart consoled.

54. So delight an eye whose lids
Have been stained with its tears until the watcher sees.

55. God has granted me a love for you in which
My heart is miserly to all but you.

56. May His prayers and peace upon you last,
Their ardor accompanied at your side by the zealous.

57. No blooming flowers smile, no pouring clouds weep,
As long as the horizons of meadows burst forth.