1. Welcome O friend who conversed with God, and drew near His place as close as can be,
And like the one who languished in prison for years, yet remained noble and dignified,

2. And the reciter of the Quran, tender as when it was revealed, who captured my heart with torment,
To you a face whose beautiful traits, ever-present, call hearts unto it,

3. So when an eye sees you, it sees a moment yearning for you with strange beauty,
O beloved, I complained to him of what was in me, so he told when he turned away a young gazelle, a pet,

4. And bent, becoming an old man, above a branch, pulling a staff, hunched,
By my father, you are to me a cure and an illness, and a doctor, when I lack the doctor.