1. When we reached the sands at dusk,
And lights shone for us in its sublime quarters,

2. We rested our cheeks on the ground out of reverence,
Kneeling at the thresholds in the greatest shrine.

3. We spent the night close to them, and whoever is a lover,
Meeting with his beloved, is neither hungry nor thirsty.

4. From the unknown we were named their devoted slaves,
This fortune was valid for us in the world of the Divine.

5. We still hold on to the ancient covenant, never changing,
Seeking no India or Salma afterwards.

6. How many falsely claim to love the beloved like us!
People who have gone astray in passion and missed the target.

7. We loved them, not caring for all other creations,
Seeking only a share of their love.

8. Through them we learned the secret of passion, becoming experts,
Oh Lord, increase our knowledge in loving them!

9. For we made them, in every instant, our only concern,
While they made the universes their concern.

10. Love preceded, before our bodies' creation,
We walked the path of our destiny from early on.

11. Oh stars of the night, do not toy with us!
Make way for us when we shed our darkness.

12. To take off, in love, our chaste veils wantonly,
And compose, in longing for our masters, a poem.

13. And you, gentle breeze from the bent tin,
Diffuse to us the fragrance of their perfume.

14. The days fight us with distance from them,
For how long? Is it not time we made peace?

15. The heart has its phases, and patience has its gift,
But the resolve we saw in it had no strength.

16. The embers of estrangement and distance, alas,
Made our blood spill, weakening even the bones.

17. It is as if the flowers of fire in the matter of their absence
Were a foreordained judgment we see imposed on us.

18. While days of nearness helped us attain their company,
And hostile days parted us from them unjustly.

19. We passed away through them, oblivious of ourselves and all else,
And whoever is targeted, is it justice that he be targeted?

20. Where are their defenses in their affairs,
When the Sheikh of my passion never came to trial?

21. The boy of their meanings reigns supreme over us,
Without any wrong from them, however they wished, or sin.

22. But the motives of love drive us
To state our claims, though we committed no crime.

23. Peace be upon them! We are obedient to their command,
Content with whatever they approve in passion as judgment.

24. Perhaps, if only, in love, or maybe -
The matters of speculation in passion became filled with illusion.

25. Yes, we are from them, and the nature of our being
Became in grammar a requirement for adjacency.

26. And this is the hoped for end of their eternal glory -
We made it, at the start of creation, our seal.