1. شرفي يا شرفي يا شرفي

    وجه من أهواه قد أشرق في

    My glory, O my glory, O my glory!

    The face of the one I love has shone within

  2. قلبي المضني به طلعته

    فتنتني بالبها والهيف

    my heart, worn out by him; his countenance

    has enthralled me with beauty and slender grace.

  3. غصن بان ينثني مرحاً

    قد رماني في بحار التلف

    A bān-tree bough bending playfully

    has cast me into seas of ruin.

  4. لورآه البدر ما بان ولو

    سمع الظبي به لم يقف

    Were the full moon to see him, it would not appear; and were

    the gazelle to hear of him, it would not stand still.

  5. ينجلي في كل شيء عندنا

    فنراه في القبا المنكشف

    He reveals himself in everything before us,

    so we see him in the robe laid open.

  6. لبس الصورة يختال بها

    بيننا حاوي البها والترف

    He has donned form, strutting in it

    among us, embodying beauty and luxury.

  7. قد تسمَّى لي بأسماء الورى

    وبكل اسم له مختلف

    He has made himself known to me by the names of creation,

    and by every different name he bears.

  8. عطفه الغصن وقلبي طائر

    همزة ساكنة في الألف

    His frame is a bough, and my heart a bird—

    a hamza at rest upon the alif.

  9. هو حق وسواه باطل

    مثل ما قال لنا في الصحف

    He is Truth, and all besides him is false,

    just as he told us in the scriptures.

  10. فاشهد اشهد إن تكن ذا بصرٍ

    وإذا لم تك كن في الطرف

    So witness, witness, if you have sight;

    and if you do not, remain at the edge.

  11. وادخل الحضرة إن كنت فتىً

    أو من الحضرة فاخرج وانتف

    And enter the Presence if you are a gallant youth,

    or depart from the Presence and cease to be.

  12. ملأ الكون تعالى ربنا

    بوجود ظاهر وهو خفي

    Our Lord—exalted is he—has filled the cosmos

    with manifest being, while he is hidden.

  13. أنت روح نفخت في أمره

    درة من جسمها في صدف

    You are a spirit breathed at his command,

    a pearl within a shell made of its body.

  14. آه من جهلك بالله ومن

    قلبك المنقلب المنحرف

    Alas for your ignorance of God, and for

    your fickle, wayward heart!

  15. أفلا تذكر أياماً مضت

    أنت فيها لم تكن يا منتفي

    Do you not, then, remember days gone by,

    when you did not exist, O nonexistent one?

  16. كن كما كنت قديماً فانياً

    واعرف الحق به واعترف

    Be as you were of old, annihilated,

    and know the Truth through him, and acknowledge him.