1. كلُّ واحدٍ له نصيب يأتي

    وهواك لي نصيب

    Each one has a share that comes to him.

    And love for you is my share.

  2. يا حباتي وأنتَ في ذاتي

    حاضرٌ لا تغيب

    O my life [probable reading], and you are within my being,

    Present, never absent.

  3. أنت أسكرتَني على سكري

    من قديم الشراب

    You made me drunk upon my drunkenness

    From wine of old.

  4. ثم خاطبتني كما تدري

    ففهِمتُ الخِطاب

    Then you addressed me, as you know,

    So I understood the address.

  5. ثمَّ صبَّرتَني رقيب ذاتي

    وأنتَ كنتَ الرقيب

    Then you made me patient as the watcher over my being,

    And you were the watcher.

  6. يا حباتي وأنت في ذاتي

    حاضرٌ لا تغيب

    O my life [probable reading], and you are within my being,

    Present, never absent.

  7. أدخُلِ الحان واشهد المعنى

    كي تنال الأمان

    Enter the tavern and behold the meaning,

    So that you may attain safety.

  8. وتراني بين الدنان تفنى

    شاخصاً للدنان

    And you see me among the wine-jars, as you vanish,

    Gazing at the wine-jars.

  9. قد سقاني ساقي المدام حقنه

    قبل كونِ الزمان

    The wine-bearer has already given me a dose [probable reading] to drink,

    Before time came into being.

  10. أنتَ تدري من يملى طاساتي

    أليعُ المجيب

    You know who fills my bowls,

    [Unclear word], the one who answers.

  11. يا حياتي وأنتَ في ذاتي

    حاضرٌ لا تغيب

    O my life, and you are within my being,

    Present, never absent.

  12. أنا شخ الخلاعه عن ذاتي

    وإمامُ السبعون

    I am the shaykh [probable reading] of debauchery, apart from my being,

    And the imam of the seventy.

  13. وحبيبي بِحُسنهِ الذّاتي

    حازَ جمعَ الفنون

    And my beloved, through his inherent beauty,

    Has acquired all the arts.

  14. ولهذا دعاني غاياتي

    راحتي في المنون

    And for this he called me to my goals [syntax unclear];

    My rest is in death.

  15. أنت صيرتني رقيب ذاتي

    وأنت كنتَ الرقيب

    You made me the watcher over my being,

    And you were the watcher.

  16. يا حياتي وأنت في ذاتي

    حاضرٌ لا تغيب

    O my life, and you are within my being,

    Present, never absent.

  17. أنا من عين فضل ساداتي

    نلتُ أعلى الرتَب

    I, from the wellspring of my masters' bounty,

    Attained the highest ranks.

  18. وعلى قدرِ علو همَّتي

    نجتهِد في الطَلَب

    And in proportion to the loftiness of my aspiration,

    We strive in the quest,

  19. حتى قضيت سائر أوقاتي

    في الغناء والطرب

    Until I spent all my time

    In singing and rapture.

  20. وسمعتُ الخطاب من ذاتي

    من مكانٍ قريب

    And I heard the address from my being,

    From a place nearby.

  21. يا حباتي وأتت في ذابي

    حاضرٌ لا تغيب

    O my life [probable reading], and she came into my [unclear],

    Present, never absent.