1. أريحي الوجا يا ناق ما بعد ذا وجا

    فقد نلت ما نلناه من مقتضى الرجا

    Rest your aching feet, O she-camel; after this, no more aching.

    For you have attained what we attained: the fulfillment of hope.

  2. فهذا هو البيت الحرام دخلته

    فلا تطلبي عن مخرج البيت مخرجا

    This is the Sacred House that you have entered.

    So seek no way out beyond the House's exit.

  3. وباب الصفا هو الذي قد ولجته

    وبالعلمين الخضر أحسنت مولجا

    And the Gate of al-Safa is the one you entered.

    At the two green markers you made a fine entrance.

  4. وذي زمزم منها اشربي وانقعي الصدى

    ولا تحذري من شرب عل تخرجا

    Here is Zamzam: drink from it and quench your thirst.

    Do not shrink from a second draught out of scruple.

  5. وعودي إلى وادي منى ثم عرجي

    إلى عرفات عند من كان عرجا

    Return to the valley of Mina, then turn aside

    to Arafat, beside those who have halted there.

  6. فقد طالما سرت الدفق وفوز من

    مسيرك قد سار الدفقي وهملجا

    How often you have journeyed swiftly! Fortunate is one who

    has followed your course, speeding and ambling.

  7. ويا طالما دأبت والآل سابح

    فكنت سفينا فيه لما تموجا

    And how often you labored while the mirage swam,

    and were a ship upon it when it surged in waves.

  8. ويا طالما أدخلت والليل أليل

    ومن يبتغي ما يبتغي النوم أدلجا

    And how often you entered the night when it was utterly dark;

    whoever pursues his aim, not sleep, travels by night.

  9. ويا طالما رافقت في الدوريدها

    وفجفجت حيث الأجدل السهم فجفجا

    And how often you kept company in [unclear wording],

    and sped where the swift falcon sped.

  10. إذا ذكرت ليل ترزمت مثلما

    ترزم مخلول على الخلف أزعجا

    When you remembered a night, you moaned, just as

    a calf barred from suckling moans, distressed at the teat.

  11. صبوحك بالأبكار أعلاك حرة

    وأمثالها بالليل إذ جن أو دجا

    Your morning draught at daybreak—[unclear wording concerning your back and a lava field];

    and the like at night, when darkness fell or deepened.

  12. وحرمت رعي الروض وهو محلل

    وغيرك يرعى منه شيحا وسلجا

    You were denied grazing in the meadow, though it was permitted,

    while others grazed there on wormwood and silj herbage.

  13. تركت مياه السبت وهي نيمرة

    وأنشجت من ماء الضبيعة منشجا

    You left the waters of al-Sabt, though they were sweet and wholesome,

    and gulped a draught from the water of al-Dubay'ah.

  14. وتكتب قصداً عن رماح ووردة

    ومن حرض أوردت ماء فهمجا

    And you deliberately [turned aside; verb unclear] from Rimah and Wardah;

    from Harad you were brought to water that was foul.

  15. وأوردت ماء من جنابي ومن قنا

    ومران والغيلان سعرى وقد شجا

    You were brought to water from Janabi and Qana,

    and Marran and al-Ghaylan, thirst-maddened, though it caused distress.

  16. موارد لم يؤمن بها الذيب نفسه

    على نفسه من دونه بوجا

    Watering places where even the wolf could not secure its own safety,

    for itself, against what lay before it [last word unclear].

  17. وصلت الضحى بالليل والليل بالضحى

    تجشمت في الوقتين دأباً ومدلجا

    You joined morning to night, and night to morning,

    enduring toil at both times and traveling by night.

  18. وعليك مسيح جنحت الركب بالثى

    فبت ترى ما بعد ما كان مدحجا

    With a traveler upon you, the caravan turned aside [wording unclear];

    and you spent the night seeing what lay beyond what had been trodden [reading uncertain].

  19. على بابك اللهم ألقيت أرحلي

    محملة ذنباً ومحشوةً رجا

    At Your gate, O God, I have laid down my saddles,

    laden with sin and packed with hope.

  20. إذا أرتجت أبوب خلقك خالقي

    فبابك مفتوح وما ليس مرتجى

    When the doors of Your creatures are shut, my Creator,

    Your gate is open and not barred [wording uncertain].

  21. إذا لم أرج منك عفواً ونائلاً

    فمن ذا سواك اللَه مولاي مرتجى

    If I do not hope for pardon and bounty from You,

    who besides You, O God, my Master, can be hoped in?

  22. فقل لعبيد جا إليك بذنبه

    منيباً غفرنا الذنب للعبد يوم جا

    Then say to a humble servant who came to You with his sin,

    repentant: 'We forgave the servant his sin on the day he came.'

  23. لجأت إليك اللَه مما أخافه

    وهيهات ما خاف امرؤ بك قد نجا

    I have sought refuge in You, O God, from what I fear.

    Far be it that anyone saved through You should fear!

  24. فأنت بحالي يا عليم فعالم

    فما لي سواك اللَه ملجا وملتجا

    For You, O All-Knowing, know my condition.

    I have no refuge or shelter but You, O God,

  25. ولا منهجا إلا إليك طيوته

    فأوضح لي اللَه للعفو منهجا

    and have traveled no road except toward You.

    So make plain to me, O God, a path to pardon.

  26. أناجيك إعلاناً وسراً ومن يكن

    لديك فمقبول الدعاء فقد نجا

    I commune with You openly and secretly; whoever is

    with You, his prayer accepted, has surely been saved.

  27. وإذا أنت لم تقبل من المروء سعيه

    فلا نافع علماً كثيفاً ولا حجا

    And if You do not accept a person's striving,

    neither abundant learning nor reason is of any benefit.

  28. ألا رب من لم تبد للخفو عينه

    سعيد ويشقى من بكى هم عجعجا

    How many a person whose eye showed no fear [wording uncertain]

    is blessed, while one who wept in distress and cried aloud is wretched.

  29. إلهي ومعبودي سألتك مذعناً

    ببابك يا مولاي أوقفني الرجا

    My God and the One I worship, I ask You submissively;

    at Your gate, my Master, hope has made me stand.

  30. وسرت النجا يا رب للعفو قاصداً

    وفوز امرئ سار النجا فلقى النجا

    I traveled swiftly, my Lord, intent on pardon;

    fortunate is a man who traveled swiftly and found deliverance.

  31. أنا المذنب الخاطي فإن قمت داعياً

    لك اللَه من قبحي لساني تلجلجا

    I am the guilty sinner; if I rise to call

    to You, O God, my tongue stammers because of my wickedness.

  32. إذا قست ذنبي لم أجد عنه مخرجا

    ويوسعني حين الرجا فيك مخرجا

    When I measure my sin, I find no escape from it;

    yet hope in You then opens a way out for me.

  33. فكم كرب حلت بمثل مذنب

    دعاك على تفريجها فتفرجا

    How many a hardship befell a sinner like this,

    who called on You to relieve it, and it was relieved!

  34. دعوتك يا مولاي تقبل دعوتي

    وتغفر زلاتي وتفرج ما شجا

    I call upon You, my Master: accept my prayer,

    forgive my slips, and dispel what grieves me.

  35. إذا لم تكن لي من تكون لمذنب

    بك اللَه لما خاف من ذنبه التجا

    If You are not there for me, who will be there for a sinner

    who sought refuge in You, O God, when he feared his sin?

  36. إذا ما مسه الفعل آوى لمحسن

    أواه وحامى دونه حيث أخرجا

    When his deed wounds him, he takes refuge with a benefactor

    who shelters him and defends him wherever he is driven out.

  37. أناظر دب النمل والنمل أسود

    بليل كعين الظبي أسود قد دجا

    O You who see the crawling of ants, though the ants are black,

    in a night black as a gazelle's eye, utterly dark;

  38. ويا رازق الفرخ الذي في عشاشه

    وحافظه في العش من حيث أدرجا

    and O Provider for the fledgling in its nests,

    and its Guardian in the nest from the time it was tucked away,

  39. دعوتك محزوناً وأدعوك راجياً

    فعشت أسيراً أطرد الخوف بالرجا

    I called upon You in sorrow, and I call upon You in hope;

    thus I have lived a captive, driving fear away with hope.