1. إن كنتَ ذا اتصال أبصَرتَ في العلا

    النورَ متلالي وقد تمثلّا

    If you are in communion, you behold on high

    The light, shimmering, and now made manifest.

  2. حالَ المحب ناطق

    بحال أمرهِ

    The lover’s state speaks

    Of the state of his affairs.

  3. من ميّزَ الدقائق

    بعين فكرهِ

    Whoever discerns the subtleties

    With the eye of his thought,

  4. لاحت لهُ الحقائق

    من دير سره

    The truths appear to him

    From the cloister of his inner secret.

  5. وكان ذا جمال من نورهِ انجلا

    لذلك الجمال والنور والحلا

    And he possessed a beauty that shone forth from his light,

    To that beauty, light, and sweetness.

  6. أتدّعي هوانا

    وتُظهر الخلاف

    Do you claim to love us,

    Yet show opposition,

  7. وتبتغي رضانا

    ما منك ذا إنتصاف

    And seek our favor?

    This is not fairness on your part.

  8. فخلِّ من سوانا

    تُسقى الرضا أو تشاف

    Then forsake all but us;

    You will be given favor to drink, or be healed.

  9. يا طالبَ الوصال من سيّدٍ علا

    إنّ الوصال غالي وما غلا حلا

    O seeker of union from an exalted master,

    Union is costly, and whatever is costly is sweet.

  10. عُشّاقُنا فنونٌ

    كلٌّ لهُ مقام

    Our lovers are of many kinds;

    Each has his station.

  11. هذا به جنونٌ

    وذا به هُيام

    This one is seized by madness,

    And that one by consuming love.

  12. وسِرُّنا مصونٌ

    قد أعجزَ الأنام

    And our secret is guarded;

    It has baffled humankind.

  13. فدَع منَ المحالِ واخضَع تذللا

    لذلك الجمال والنور والحلا

    So abandon the impossible and bow in humility

    To that beauty, light, and sweetness.

  14. اجعل وصفكَ ذُلّا

    وكُن عبداً مُقيم

    Make humility your attribute,

    And be an abiding servant.

  15. ما في الوجودِ إلّا

    إلهُنا العظيم

    Nothing exists but

    Our great God.

  16. للطورِ قد تجلّى

    وكلّمَ الكَليم

    He revealed Himself to the Mount,

    And spoke to His interlocutor.

  17. قد لاح في السؤال مذ لاح وانجلا

    في حضرة الكمال نورٌ تهلّلا

    It shone forth in the asking, since it appeared and was unveiled;

    In the presence of perfection, a light beamed.

  18. هواهُ في الضمير

    والقَلبِ لا يزول

    Love for him dwells in the inner self

    And in the heart, never fading:

  19. المصطفى البشير

    ألسيد الرسول

    The Chosen One, the bearer of glad tidings,

    The master, the Messenger.

  20. بصفح عن الفقير

    يصغى لما يقول

    With pardon for the poor one,

    He listens to what he says.

  21. يا منزلَ الآمال حييتَ منزِلا

    فما أنا بذلٍ عنهُ وإن سلا

    O abode of hopes, hail to you as an abode!

    So I am not abased apart from him, even if he forgets. [Wording unclear.]