1. Learn from me the lament in the doctrine of passion,
The dove of their dwellings lamented for them like me,

2. The wind of my fervor rustled in the branches of love,
So it shook with an earthquake, folded from emotional tremors.

3. The hands of happiness have granted from the type of my happiness,
So its deed yearns originally from my deed.

4. And I came late among the men but rather,
I preceded in the field of love before me.

5. My beloved acted spoiled before me boastfully,
So I met him with humility and submission.

6. And I walked before him in a procession, what procession!
Levels of the sultans of love were around me.

7. And I stood as an orator among them above a pulpit,
And they took the law of love from my words.

8. I arbitrated in the art of passion so my state,
Dictates to its people the judgments of its conditions.

9. And that I am certain in the knowledge of my doctrine,
My hearing transcended in my best times over rebuke.

10. It is knowledge in the origins of rulings, a result,
Purified to the intelligent from ignorance.

11. And what is the matter of one who narrates passion as boasting,
Except the matter of an ignorant debating one with merit.

12. He roams foolishly claiming merit just as
The despised claims the rank of intellect.

13. It is love, something innate, residing
One reasonable and intelligent admits it and one foolish.

14. But the brave of people, his sword performs
So the secret was in it, not in the sword.

15. And what use is a sword forged with gemstones,
Blades of steel sharpened by the hand of the weak.

16. When it confronted the brave stallion you saw it
With its resolve from the palm of the hero stallion.

17. Hold on to the state of the gnostics and their deeds
And be firm footed in states and deeds.

18. Do not detach from them for the connection of others,
For the secrets of elevation are in that detachment and connection.

19. And frequent their door truthfully with all of you
In all affairs detached from all.

20. And take them as a place of request in matters and a refuge,
And a pillar in both conditions, in bond and separation.

21. And from me gain their secrets and their arts,
For I am the trustee of secrets, art, and conveyance.

22. And I am a branch and al-Rifa`i is its origin,
And in the branch is meaning inferred to the origin.

23. I surpassed the elite of men with an ambition,
By which I discovered the secrets of the heavens I extract.

24. And I flew with the wing of truthfulness to the rank that,
Ascended in the abode of glory by ascent and height.

25. Meanings poured from generous hearts,
In the cradle of piety they grew on truth and justice.

26. They rose in the door of God from a heart loving,
The prophet of guidance, best of creation, master of messengers.

27. Upon him the prayers of God what gleamed with lightning,
And folded like him in existence upon a like.

28. And family, companions, and pure masters
Beside God eternally they never had any preoccupation.