1. شَهِدتُ مَغيبَ النَفسِ في مَشهَدِ النَفسِ

    فَزِدتُ بِأُنسي وَحشَةً فيهِ مِن أُنسي

    I witnessed the self's vanishing in the self's place of witnessing.

    So through my intimacy I grew more estranged there from my intimacy.

  2. وَعُذتُ بِكَهفِ الجِنِّ مِنهُم فَصارَ لي

    مُجِيّا فَلا عَقلي يُحَسُّ وَلا حِسّي

    And I sought refuge from them in the cave of the jinn, so it became for me

    a shelter [uncertain reading], so neither my intellect nor my senses are perceived.

  3. أُنَعَّمُ مِن نِعَمٍ وَلَيلى بِلَيلَةٍ

    مِنَ البَدرِ فيها أَشرَقَت طَلعَةُ الشَمسِ

    I am granted bliss by Nuʿm and Layla on a night

    In which the sun's countenance shone forth from the full moon.