1. يا قلبُ زُرتَ وما انطوى ذاك الجوى

    عجبا لقلبٍ بالنَعيمِ قد اكتوى

    O heart, you visited, yet that burning sorrow did not subside.

    How strange—a heart scorched by bliss!

  2. زادَ الغرامُ وزالَ كلّ تصبّر

    عالَجتهُ قبل الزيارَة فانطوى

    Passion grew, and all hard-won patience vanished.

    I had labored to sustain it before the visit, but it fell away.

  3. ولهيبُ وجد هيّجتهُ روضةٌ

    من أجلها حلت من الصبر القوى

    And a garden stirred a blaze of longing;

    for its sake, the strands of patience came undone.

  4. بل زاد شوقي للحبيب ورامةٍ

    والأبرَقَينِ وما لمُنعرج لوى

    Rather, my yearning grew for the Beloved and Rāmah,

    and al-Abraqayn, but not for the bend of Liwā.

  5. تاللَهِ ما شوقي لطيبة بعدما

    زُرتُ الحبيب وقبلهُ إلّا سوى

    By God, my longing for Ṭaybah after

    I visited the Beloved is no different from before.

  6. أرضٌ أحبُ إلى العلي من العلى

    نزلَ الرسولُ بها وفيها قد ثوى

    A land dearer to the Most High than the heights:

    the Messenger settled there, and there he lies at rest.

  7. يا تربةً ما مثلُها من تربةٍ

    فيها الشفاء لكلِّ عاص والدوى

    O soil, no other soil is like you;

    within you are healing and remedy for every sinner.

  8. يا روضةً ما مثلها من روضة

    باسعد من في جنّة المأوى أوى

    O garden, no other garden is like you,

    with the most blessed of those who found shelter in the Garden of Refuge.

  9. كم لي أنوح على الوصولِ وعندما

    أوصلتني أصليتني نار الجوى

    How long I have lamented, yearning to arrive! And when

    you brought me there, you made me burn in longing's fire.

  10. فكأنَّني الظمآن صادف فطرةً

    فتضاعف الظمأ الشديد وما ارتوى

    As though I were a thirsty man who found a drop [conjectural reading],

    so his fierce thirst doubled, yet he remained unquenched.

  11. قسماً بطه وهو ياسينُ الذي

    قد جاءَ في النجم العظيم إذا هوى

    I swear by Ṭā Hā—he is Yā Sīn—who

    is mentioned in the mighty 'Star, when it descends';

  12. وبقابَ قوسينِ الذي هوم قد دنا

    من ربّه ذو مرّة ثم استوى

    and by the span of two bows at which he drew near [unclear wording]

    to his Lord, possessed of strength, then stood upright.

  13. لأجددنَّ نياحتي بياحتي

    أسفا على ذاك المقامِ وما حوى

    I shall surely renew my lamentation [unclear final word],

    in sorrow for that station and all it held,

  14. حتّى أموتَ وإن أمُت متحيرا

    فلكُلِّ عبد مسلم ما قد نرى

    until I die; and if I die bewildered,

    then every Muslim servant has what we see.

  15. يا ربّ أسألك الرضى والعفو عن

    ما قد مضى يا من على العرش استوى

    O Lord, I ask You for Your good pleasure and pardon for

    what has passed, O You who established Yourself upon the Throne.

  16. أعتق عبيدك من لظى نار غدا

    نزّاعةً يوم القيامة للشوى

    Set Your servants free from the blaze of a fire that, tomorrow,

    on the Day of Resurrection, will strip away scalps—

  17. بمحمد المختار خاتمِ رسله

    طه على فضل الجميع قد احتوى

    by Muḥammad, the Chosen One, the seal of His messengers,

    Ṭā Hā, who has encompassed the excellence of them all.

  18. فعليهِ من رب العلى صلواتهُ

    وسلامهُ ما غرّدَت ورقُ اللوى

    So upon him be His blessings from the Lord of the heights,

    and His peace, as long as the gray doves of al-Liwā sing.