1. What heart among you has yearned and dwelled
Or longed for others throughout time

2. O beloved ones whose love has intoxicated me
A cup of sorrows and all kinds of afflictions

3. Whenever the Yemeni lightning flashes
My heart inclines towards your regions

4. Of your love, my heart has taken the wear
And the instrument of my wounds is abandonment

5. The reproacher has been excessive in his advice to me about you
I wish I knew if this is who

6. And my hopes have remained overflowing
Oh my life they are some of the temptations

7. Yearning for you has disturbed my thoughts
And upon it the raid of sorrows has been cruel

8. And my secret for my lament has become public
Have you ever seen a secret like what is public?

9. O you who renewed the vow if you travel
To a spot flooded with the sea of blessings

10. Be gentle with me through your perpetual generosity
For you my heart is the price

11. And I see you did not want my company
My sin has forbidden me so oh the prolonged sadness

12. My suspicions about all my affairs were evil
Indeed, evil suspicion is one of the purest insights

13. How can I be content with affairs that
In the eyes of the zealous riders have no good?

14. O generous souls, be generous
And mend my brokenness for the vessel has cracked

15. My peace is where you have dwelt, and except
Where you have not dwelt, there is no peace for me

16. And your sanctuary, your sanctuary is my homeland
And love of homeland is part of faith

17. Only Mecca is the mother of worshippers
And towards it is my direction from everything

18. My love, rather my death, resides in it
So many ropes are upon my neck from my longing

19. The Caliph’s governor is the chosen one’s eye
An inheritor of Ali, Hussein and Hasan

20. My master, the Rifa’i succor, who
Represented the best of creation in good conduct

21. My Lord, my head with age is ablaze
Like the bone has gotten feeble and weak

22. And whenever my heart settles down
Its parts flutter with fervor and yearning

23. So save me with an outpouring of kindness
And protect me from the marks of sorrows

24. And turn my heart to Your sanctity, O
Knower of secrets, and erase temptations

25. And make my conduct the path of Mustapha
Pure from any blemish and fault

26. And make Rifa’i my hand I grasp
When affliction comes at its harshest

27. And to You belongs all praise for Your bounty
O Lord of bounties, from the world of eternity

28. You have shown us after being hidden
The promise has been fulfilled, the time has come

29. The breeze cracks from their lightning
Like the cracking of Mustapha, the wind of Yemen