1. وليِّيَ في الدنيا وفي الأخرى تولني

    بما تتولى الصالحين وثبت

    My Protector in this world and the next, take me into Your care,

    with the care You show the righteous, and make me steadfast.

  2. تولى ولي المؤمنين استقامتي

    ونصري وحقق يا ولي محبتي

    May the Protector of the faithful oversee my steadfastness

    and my victory; O Protector, make my love true.

  3. تول ولائي في ثبوت ولايتي

    بنقطة باء لا بساذج نقطتي

    Take charge of my allegiance, firmly establishing my sainthood,

    through the dot of bāʾ, not through my own bare dot.

  4. تول عروجي من أفاحيص مركزي

    إليك بلطف منك لا بكيفتي

    Take charge of my ascent from the nesting hollows of my center

    to You, through grace from You, not through my own mode of being.

  5. تول وليتي باسمك اسمي مرقياً

    صفاتي الدنايا بالصفات العلية

    Take charge of my sainthood, raising my name through Your name,

    and my lowly qualities through the lofty attributes.

  6. تول ولائي من توليته اهتدى

    رمتني حظوظي بين أعماق ضلتي

    Take charge of my allegiance; whoever You take into Your care finds guidance.

    My selfish desires have hurled me into the depths of my error.

  7. تول ولي الحمد شأني بنظرة

    ترافقني ألطافها في طريقتي

    Take charge of my affairs, O Master of praise, with a glance

    whose gentle graces accompany me along my path.

  8. وليي تولتني شئون من الهوى

    تدارك خلاصي من هوى فيه شقوتي

    My Protector, the preoccupations of passion have taken hold of me.

    Secure my deliverance from a passion in which lies my misery.

  9. تدارك وليي هذه النفس إنها

    بمهما تولاها هواها تولت

    Rescue this soul, my Protector, for it—

    whenever its passion takes charge of it—turns away,

  10. ذريعة شيطان لما فيه ويلها

    لها الويل إن أسلمتها من ذريعتي

    a devil’s instrument for what brings it woe.

    Woe to it if You abandon it, O You who are my recourse.

  11. ولاؤك سلطاني غلبت به الهوى

    ولاؤك منجاتي ولاؤك عصمتي

    Your patronage is my power; through it I have conquered passion.

    Your patronage is my deliverance; Your patronage is my safeguard.