كشَف المحبوبُ عن قلبي الغَطا

وتجلىَّ جهرةً منيِّ إِليّ

The Beloved has unveiled my heart's covering

And has appeared openly from me to me

لم يُشاهِد حسْنَه غيري ولم

يبْقَ في الدَّير سِوى المشهودِ فيّ

None but I has witnessed His beauty

And there remains in the monastery only the Witnessed in me

وجَلا عنيِّ حجاباً كُنْته

وتلاشى الكَون يا صَاح لديّ

And has removed from me a veil that I had been

And the universe has faded away, O intimate with me

أيُّ حُسن ما بدا إِلا لمن

قد طوَى العقْل معَ الكون طيّ

What beauty has appeared except to one who

Has folded reason with the universe, folded

ورأى الأشْياء شيئَا واحداً

بل رأى الواحِد وتراً دون شيّ

And has seen things as one thing

Rather, has seen the One, and seen the strings as no thing