1. إن المحب إذا اختفت أسرارُهُ

    ظهرت على صفحاته أنواره

    Indeed, when the lover's secrets are hidden,

    His lights appear upon his features.

  2. ويح المحب إذا دهتهم ناره

    قالوا أتبكي من بقلبك داره

    Alas for the lover when his fire overwhelms them!

    They said, “Do you weep for one whose dwelling is in your heart?”

  3. جهل العواذل داره بجميعي

    شرف الهوى أنا راهب في ديرِهِ

    The reproachers did not know his dwelling lay throughout my whole being.

    I am love's glory, a monk in its monastery.

  4. وأنا الذي عندي مطالع خيره

    والحب عني حيث جد بسيره

    And I am the one in whom its goodness dawns.

    And love is away from me as it presses on its journey.

  5. لم أبكه لكن برؤية غيره

    طهرت أجفاني بفيض دموعي

    I did not weep for him; rather, on seeing someone other than him,

    I cleansed my eyelids with the flood of my tears.