1. أيها القوم السكارى

    بعقار وهو دونْ

    O drunken people,

    on wine that is lesser than

  2. خمر أرباب المعاني

    هو أعلى ما يكونْ

    the wine of the masters of inner meanings—

    it is the highest there can be.

  3. فبطون من ظهور

    وظهور من بطون

    Thus hiddenness comes from manifestation,

    and manifestation from hiddenness.

  4. أنفقوا الأجسام محقاً

    في هوى عين العيون

    They expended their bodies in annihilation,

    in love of the Essence of essences.

  5. ثم بالأرواح ساروا

    في غرام وشجون

    Then they journeyed with their spirits

    in ardent love and sorrows.

  6. ثم عنهم خلعوا ما

    عاقهم دون المنون

    Then they cast off from themselves what

    had hindered them before death.

  7. فاعلموا يا أهل ودي

    أن من عز يهون

    So know, O people of my affection,

    that whoever is exalted becomes lowly.

  8. واسمعوا من قول ربي

    فله نحن الشئون

    And listen to my Lord's words:

    for we are His affairs.

  9. أنفقوا ما قد جمعتم

    من علوم وفنون

    Spend what you have gathered

    of sciences and arts,

  10. وذوات وصفات

    وخفوق وسكون

    and essences and attributes,

    and throbbing and stillness.

  11. فلقد قال إله ال

    خلق في الذكر المصون

    For indeed, thus spoke the God of

    creation, in the safeguarded Scripture:

  12. لن تنالوا البر حتى

    تنفقوا مما تحبون

    You will never attain righteousness until

    you spend of what you love.