1. My secret's China, and my tears its title;
The Lord of a secret that spread its concealment.

2. My cheeks are wounded by the vain clouds
And my determination weakened by its flow.

3. What do the enchantresses want from me,
After a heart aflame with its fires?

4. Does the settlement ever please one abandoned
Whose company controlled him then left him?

5. His neighbors became the horizons, though he
Was part of a melting group of neighbors.

6. So if they were present he disappeared, astonished,
And if they conversed, his tongue was tied.

7. Oh, the prolonged heartache of an era
Whose brothers are crookedness and deceit!

8. I saw from the lover, when I complained of passion,
A matter that disgraces my situation with its explanation.

9. And if I stay silent, I find embers
In my heart, with its smoke rising to the sky.

10. Tell the troop of loved ones - and love is a religion -
It cried out when the thorns exhausted its groan.

11. If you carried a slave today in the camel litter
Who praises your caravan in his verses,

12. Muttering your mention in the dwellings of
The house, its pillars quake in awe,

13. Perplexed by yearning for you, and it wasted away
With ecstasy in your love, its branches bent.

14. By God - and the passion is true -
An oath never ceasing to revere its status.

15. If you have set the heart aflame and wounded it,
It is its faith in you, its faith.

16. Oh heart accustomed to gentle sorrow
And whose religion is addiction to it!

17. Relieve it with a kind glance, for by my life
Its sorrows from your estrangement have grown.

18. My masters, my masters, you have a slave of passion
Who filled the whole earth with his poetry.

19. He feared you and withdrew from the universe; he found
No tranquility but in your company as his sanctuary.

20. A lover among lovers east and west,
Yours outweighs all in his scale.

21. Relying on you - God forbid he prevail
An era without you as his aides!

22. With the example of the two conditions from you to you
He clings - and his secret is its declaration.

23. His heart writhes to you in meaning,
As the garden twists its branches.

24. And if the breeze stirs, it calls to mind
And it has, from his existence, its structure.

25. He boasts of your mention, so if he comprehends
Its meaning, his chambers are perfumed.

26. He never ceased to settle under your shadow,
Spending his time in kinds of favors.

27. He ascended the ascension for your sake and grew lofty,
While his peers descended in his view.

28. He claimed no pretense in the gatherings of people
Unless its proof became supreme.

29. They are your signs - so your scripture in the
Universe is sublime, supported by its distinction.

30. The beauty of your appearance made the morning shine -
So it gained from the sun its illumination.

31. From your Lord, blessings have covered you
That the living never sensed, smelling its fragrance.

32. And it contained, in its unknown folds, a spreading
Of the heavenly, manifesting its time.

33. And it called you, in the presence of holiness, a caller
Of passionate love, its translator.