1. The leaves of the tamarisk pined for you,
And the phantom disturbed you, then vanished.

2. So you spent the night with tearful eyes,
And it is the right of your eyes to be tearful.

3. Your tears are dripping and sufficient,
Sliding down the cheek if they are wiped.

4. The morning breeze stirs up your passion,
Though it would have been gentler if it blew.

5. Lightning flashes and the meadow smells fragrant,
Foliage laments and love is unfaithful.

6. A nightingale sings and a bulbul sleeps,
A specter nods off and a courtyard is vacant.

7. And whatever lively partridge there was,
You remembered your lively partridge.

8. And if you tasted a cool draught,
You remembered that cool draught.

9. So you are nothing but a confidante of love,
And you have no remedy for its pain.

10. As if you were Ahmad in his ordeal -
"Are you the leader who has led?"

11. So he said, "Is that by a way
That is considered proper conduct and followed?"

12. I said, "By sorcery he reaps from sin
Whatever he wished to pluck.

13. And he has mixed sorcery with his heresy,
A cure which removed an illness and was sought."

14. And God has appointed scholars to defend
His confused utterances if they are confused.

15. He manipulated their hearts with sorcery
Until they became enamored and submissive.

16. So he compiled a book about it
And decorated it with ornamentations.

17. Until he called them to the sea of knowledge
While he did not even know the alphabet.

18. His compilation did not follow the truth,
So it was said, which compiled it?

19. And he praises it to the feeble-minded,
So he destroyed with disgrace what he destroyed.

20. And if he had been honest with the people about it,
Its bottomlessness would have warned them.

21. And he owes a debt to those whom
He called to this matter, if he were fair.

22. So I said, “Leave off wading into his religion,
For I was more knowing of it than you.”

23. “For I accompanied him for a period,
A watcher over him, though he will not know.

24. And I had some of his secret with me,
Repugnant things that drew bitterness to my heart.

25. And I came to him one night,
And witnessed of his matter what was hidden.

26. And I witnessed the foundation of his approach,
And the approach of his emulating followers.

27. It is falsehoods and nonsense,
And destruction of the Law of the Chosen One.

28. And I witnessed of him that he
Feigned religiosity, a sufficient act.

29. A man came to him seeking hospitality,
Greeted and complimented him, and implored.

30. A young man well-versed whom the course of time
Had bent, so he limped.

31. So he said to him, “Go, and do not stay,
For you are not suited for the door of towns.”

32. “For the Qur’an is not honorable here,
The light of the scholars has outshone it.”

33. So he dismissed him, and the youth turned away,
And spent the night addressing and scratching the wall.

34. And he said, “I will take the path
That God ordered the people of spiritual excellence.”

35. “For the people of knowledge, in their disdain,
Are closest to God in what He chooses.”

36. He spent the night without his prayer carpet,
Not performing the prayer, to his own detriment.

37. And he had become a disgrace to his neighbors
When he sought disgraceful sins and overstepped.

38. Dragging his staff, appearing full,
So that you would think him the well-dressed dandy.

39. He was not refraining from suspicion,
Nor were they refraining from suspicions about him.

40. So when it was time for mid-morning,
And he was done with his messages to satiation,

41. And he passed by one of his lovers—
And his way with his lovers was familiarity—

42. He laughed raucously, his voice reaching
Until it resonated towards the caves.

43. He came and called for the prayer to be established,
And presented his prayer carpet, the most ornate.

44. And he slapped the ground with his face,
As the cheek of the mountain is slapped.

45. And he exclaimed the Takbir secretly without intention,
Thinking the situation like that of concealment.

46. And he came to stand at the right of the imam,
Though that is a matter which, if witnessed, would be scandalous.

47. And he glanced with his eyes towards passion,
And said to it, “Lighten up, lighten up!”

48. So he hurried until I thought him
To be, with his lightness, Waleed who was abandoned.

49. So when they turned for the greetings and turned away,
And remained clinging to its edges, bent over,

50. He said, upon you be straying misguidance
And deprivation of wellbeing, if fully realized.

51. And help for slanderers and foolish minds,
And ignorance of knowledge and knowledge of betrayal.

52. And prevention of prayers and abandonment of prayer,
And withholding of charity and neglect of loyalty.

53. So they said, “Your bequest is heard,
And you are prepared for the Day of the Rendezvous.”