1. I drank a cup that soothed all souls
A cup with spirit, basil, and comfort

2. What a pure, radiant wine
Like a lamp in the dark night

3. Made since Adam's time, nay before
When it appeared, it told of those who passed

4. Oh cup! This is an old wine not tasted
Except by men madly in love

5. By God! We drank it in their company
It intoxicated them, they did not betray secrets

6. I keep drinking it while night grows dark
Till dawn emerges from the horizon

7. The melodies dance and souls rise
To witness the secret, and souls are souls

8. We missed the nearby vision and its descent
To the Most High, key to the secret's lock

9. The soul disappears in the vision's mystery
And its body, from intense longing, specters

10. Success in nearness makes me laugh happily
Yet I fear losing nearness, I lament

11. The ignorant blind man thinks me a fool
Not knowing I am love's falcon in flight

12. I hung her, a lone gazelle in beauty
Her scent musk, her cheek an apple

13. I languish in love and passion for her
My heart finds comfort in her sweet union

14. Before me, the lovers swooned for her
Crying out in passion for her love

15. O ignorant of the path of love! Think not it easy
Love's flames rage violently

16. She flirted while holding the cup
Her full moon face shone brightly

17. How it tore hearts and shredded them
When she poured them cups of love!

18. Leave me to my soul to wander as I please
For I swim in love's oceans

19. You blame while longing folds and unfurls me
And you find relief from love's grief

20. Some have the mark of humiliation as their emblem
Tears on their cheeks flow and ebb

21. So distance is nearness and nearness in their eyes is distance
While loss is gain and harm is profit

22. The eye that witnesses the Light sees them veiled
And the self that knows them unveils the truth

23. Patience is sweet and its sweetness is their patience
While blame in the soul's eye is praise

24. Their sleep is wakefulness in the gatherings of love
Their questioning is persistence in witnessing the unseen

25. They have a state but in their breasts
Is the eye of truth and taciturn fervor

26. They are the eyes of creation, but their Father
Is the Eye of eyes - when they appeared

27. I kept his company while people were perplexed
My tears mixed with the self's flood

28. As if I were the lion in the thickets perplexed
My tears mixed with the self's flood

29. So he bound me, a gazelle, in his writ
As he held the tablets for the mystically astray

30. The light of the path and its beacon shone
While the sailing ship of the folk had a pilot

31. Abu Al-Uyoon gave me the cup gently
With roses whose hems were perfumed

32. I raved in the endeavor of the lovers happily intoxicated
The lover intoxicated with wine is roaming

33. For years I yearned in passion thinking them a day
And I swam to meet the beloved

34. I intended creation though my hopes spoke to me
Of it, and I aspired to the secret's secret

35. Your Lord does what He wills, He is Generous
A Kind Lord who opens the ways to good

36. He has endless gifts for kindness, righteousness and favor
The hopes of good, kindness and reform flock to Him

37. O Lord fulfill my hopes in You, my aspiration
By the right of the one who brought reform to the world

38. May the God of the Throne bless him for as long as
The sun rises or a lamp shines in the world