سارت تزمزم للحمى الركبان

واعاقني التسويف والحرمان

The riders set out, chanting toward the sanctuary.

And procrastination and deprivation held me back.

وزر ثقيل لا اقوم بعبإه

قد شب منه بمهجتي نيران

A heavy burden of sin I cannot bear;

from it, fires have blazed within my heart.

يا سائق الاظعان يجهدها وقد

طارت لساحة حبها الاظعان

O driver of the camel-litters, pressing them hard, while already

the litters have flown to the court of their love!

هلا اتئدت لذي طما وتفجعا

ناري تأج ومدمعي هتان

Will you not slow for one overflowing with grief?

My fire blazes, and my tears pour down.

واحسرتي ذنبي طما وتفجعا

ناري تأج ومدمعي هتان

Alas for me! My sin has overflowed—what anguish!

My fire blazes, and my tears pour down.

اشكو الى الله العظيم وانه ال

بر الكريم المحسن الرحمن

I complain to God the Almighty; He is the

Benevolent, the Generous, the Beneficent, the All-Merciful.

يا رب لا تقطع رجائي منك يا

من من نداه يؤمل الا حسان

O Lord, do not cut off my hope in You, O

You from whose bounty kindness is hoped for.

انظر لذا العاني بعين عناية

فعسى بها بالصالحات يعان

Look upon this captive with an eye of care;

perhaps through it he may be aided in righteous deeds.

يا من لك الكرم العميم ومن نوا

لك قد يعم المذنب الغفران

O You whose generosity is boundless, and from whose bounty

forgiveness may encompass the sinner.

فوسيلتي لك قدس ذاتك سيدي

وحبيبك المختار والقرآن

So my means of approach to You is the holiness of Your Essence, my Master,

and Your chosen Beloved, and the Qur'an;

والآل عترة عبدك الهادي واص

حاب النبي وجنده الاعيان

and the Household, the family of Your guiding servant, and

the Prophet's companions and his eminent host;

والاولياء الصالحون ومن لهم

من سر قربك يا مهيمن شان

and the righteous saints, and those who possess

distinction through the secret of nearness to You, O Guardian;

ومحبتي للوالدين ومنهما

حسن الدعاء فلي بذاك امان

and my love for my parents, and their

good prayers—through these I have safety.

ادعوك يا رباه فارحم انني

كلي لترتيل الدعاء لسان

I call upon You, O my Lord: have mercy, for I

am wholly a tongue for chanting prayer.

ذا دفتري قد سودته مآثمي

لكن فؤادي حشوه ايمان

This is my ledger; my sins have blackened it,

but my heart is filled with faith.

وجهت وجهي خالصا لك قانتا

يا من لبابك ترجع الاكوان

I have turned my face to You, sincere and devout,

O You to whose door all worlds return.

ولانت اهل العفو يا رب الورى

والذنب فعل اهله الانسان

And You are the One to pardon, O Lord of creation,

and sin is a deed to which humankind is prone.

ضيعت عمري لاهيا في غفلة

يا حسرتا وبضاعتي العصيان

I have squandered my life in idle heedlessness.

Alas for me! My merchandise is disobedience.

مالي سواك اليه ارفع حاجتي

ابدا ودرعي العيب والنقصان

I have none but You to whom I may raise my need,

ever—and my armor is fault and imperfection.

الخلق تطوى بالفناء ولم يزل

لك في الجميع الحكم والسلطان

Creation is folded away in annihilation, yet always

Yours are judgment and sovereignty over all.

والكل في طمس ولولا رشة

من نور قدسك ما بدت الوان

All is effaced; were it not for a sprinkling

of the light of Your holiness, no colors would appear.

قد ابرزوا من طي غلغلة العما

مذ قلت كونوا يا عظيم فكانوا

They were brought forth from the enfolded depths of the cloud,

when You said, 'Be,' O Great One, and so they were.

قاموا بديوان الظهور من الخفا

والى البطون يردهم ديوان

They stood in the court of manifestation, emerging from concealment;

and a court sends them back to hiddenness.

يا دهشة يا حيرة يا حكمة

ذهلت لها الالباب والاذهان

O wonder! O bewilderment! O wisdom,

before which intellects and minds stand astonished!

بجليل طولك يا قديم بكلما

قد جاء يبرز سره الفرقان

By Your majestic bounty, O Eternal One, by all

whose secret the Criterion has come to reveal;

بالانبياء ونائبيهم كلهم

وبكل فرد زانه العرفان

by the prophets and all their deputies,

and by every person adorned with spiritual knowledge;

بالطمس بالسر المذاع بما انطوى

في الغيب من امر له برهان

by effacement, by the mystery made known, by what lies enfolded

in the unseen—a matter for which there is proof;

بكلامك القدسي بالهمم التي

مالت اليه كأنها اغصان

by Your holy speech, by the aspirations that

inclined toward it as though they were branches;

بعبادك القوم الذين قلوبهم

طارت اليك وكلها وجدان

by Your servants, the folk whose hearts

have flown to You, filled entirely with ecstasy;

هذا اخو وله وذاك متيم

ولذاك ذو دهش وذا حيران

this one possessed by yearning, that one enslaved by love;

and that one full of wonder, and this one bewildered;

بحنين ركب العاشقين اليك حي

ث تذيبها الآلام والأحزان

by the yearning of the lovers' caravan for You, where

pains and sorrows melt them away;

بفنون اصحاب القلوب كأنهم

اشجار معرفة لها افنان

by the arts of the people of the heart, as though they were

trees of knowledge, bearing branches;

بشديد خوف المذنبين وانهم

والحن اذ تتسابق الركبان

by the sinners' intense fear—indeed, they

are [grief-stricken] when the riders race one another;

اغفر ذنوبي واجتذب قلبي الى

علياك يا رحمن يا ديان

forgive my sins, and draw my heart toward

Your exalted heights, O All-Merciful, O Requiter.

والطف بحالي يوم احشر في غد

حين الحساب يقوم والميزان

And be gentle with my plight on the morrow when I am gathered,

when the reckoning and the Balance are established.

وارحم بفضلك غفلتي وتذللي

فالعمد منه دهيت والنسيان

And have mercy, by Your grace, on my heedlessness and my abasement,

for I have been afflicted by willfulness and forgetfulness.

واجعل جزائي منك عفوا سابغا

يا من هو الحنان والمنان

And make my recompense from You an all-encompassing pardon,

O You, the Tenderly Compassionate, the Bountiful Giver.