1. أبكي وبدري بالجمال توارى

    وتأوُّهي ملأ الفجاج أوارا

    I weep, and my full moon has hidden himself in beauty.

    And my moaning has filled the mountain passes with blazing heat.

  2. كسفينةٍ في بطن بحرٍ قد جرت

    وفؤادها للسير يلهب نارا

    Like a ship that has sailed in the belly of a sea,

    And its heart kindles fire to drive it onward.

  3. سربي لسرب حبيب قلبي مسرعاً

    يا جمر وجدي واقطع الأقطارا

    Carry me swiftly to the company of my heart's beloved,

    O ember of my longing, and cross the regions.

  4. دربي بدربك نحو دار متيَّمي

    إن كنت توصل ربَّ درب دارا

    Take me along your path toward my love-stricken beloved's home,

    If you can bring a wayfarer to a dwelling.

  5. ولأنت يا قلبي اتَّئد ما أنت أ

    وَّلُ قلب مولوه لحبٍّ طارا

    And you, my heart, be calm: you are not the—

    First heart, love-distraught, to take flight for love.

  6. واصبر على هجر الحبيب فربَّما

    دار الزمان فبدَّل الآثارا

    And bear the beloved's abandonment patiently, for perhaps

    Time will turn and change the traces.

  7. واجعل مع الأيام صبراً صالحاً

    فالصبر سرٌّ يظهر الأسرارا

    And maintain a worthy patience through the days,

    For patience is a secret that reveals secrets.

  8. إياك يا قلب القنوط فإنَّها

    أقدار ربي تكشف الأقدارا

    Beware of despair, O heart, for these are

    My Lord's decrees, which undo other decrees.

  9. أحسن ببارئك الظنون فكم وكم

    في رمش طرفٍ يسَّر الإعسارا

    Think well of your Maker, for how often, how often,

    In the blink of an eye He has eased hardship.

  10. ولكم أغاث غريق لجٍّ صارخاً

    أخذته أمواجُ فارح وحارا

    And how often He has rescued someone drowning in the deep, crying out,

    The waves had seized him; he was joyful and bewildered.

  11. ولكم حمى من ندبة العضب امرءاً

    صبراً رأى الموت المريع مرارا

    And how often He has shielded a man from a keen sword's scar,

    Who patiently saw terrifying death time and again.

  12. آيات قدرته وبيض شؤنه

    بجلالا كم حيَّر الأفكارا

    The signs of His power and His radiant works—

    In majesty, how often He has bewildered minds!

  13. يا من غدا ضبا بثائر لجَّةٍ

    أو سمكةً راحت تفوح قفارا

    O you who have become a desert lizard in the raging deep,

    Or a fish that has come to reek in barren wastes,

  14. عول عليه إذا الزمان تلوَّنت

    ألونه وملحُّ خطبٍ جارا

    Rely on Him when time changes

    Its colors, and a relentless calamity deals unjustly.

  15. وارجع إليه بعزم قلبٍ خالصٍ

    محق الوجود وشامه القهارا

    And return to Him with the resolve of a sincere heart,

    That has effaced existence and beheld Him, the All-Subduer.

  16. وابسط له كفيك وابرز داعياً

    لا ترتجى من غيره استظهارا

    And spread both your palms before Him, and come forth supplicating;

    Do not seek support from anyone but Him.

  17. وخذ النبيَّ وسيلةً فهو الذي

    أبداه في طيِّ العما مختارا

    And take the Prophet as an intermediary, for he is the one

    Whom He manifested as the chosen one in the folds of the cloud.

  18. علم الرسالة منبع البرهان وال

    عرفان أجلى المرسلين منارا

    The banner of the Message, the wellspring of proof and

    Spiritual knowledge, the brightest beacon among the messengers.

  19. معراج أرواح الرجال لربها

    بلغت به في سيرها الأوطارا

    The ladder of men's souls to their Lord;

    Through him, on their journey, they attained their aims.

  20. معنى نظام دقائق الفرقان في

    تفسيره يطوي به الأخبارا

    The meaning of the ordered subtleties of the Criterion—in

    Expounding it, he enfolds the accounts within it.

  21. يجلو بنقطة نظمه من علمه

    بحراً بنكتة فهمه زخارا

    With a dot of his composition, he reveals from his knowledge

    A surging sea, through a subtle point of his understanding.

  22. سلطان صفِّ الأنبياء ورأسهم

    وهزبرهم عن عجُّ كربٍ ثارا

    The sovereign of the prophets' rank and their chief,

    And their lion, who rose from the tumult of anguish.

  23. فالجأ إليه يربط قلبٍ إن بغى

    باغٍ وربُّك يخلق الأنصارا

    So seek refuge in him; he will steady a heart if wrong is done

    By an oppressor; and your Lord creates helpers.

  24. هذا الوجيه الوجه عند الله بل

    هذا الذي للغوث قام مدارا

    This is the one whose face is honored before God—nay,

    This is he who stands as the pivot of succor.

  25. اعطاه مولاه الإغاثة مثل ما

    في الشمس قد نسج الضياء نهارا

    His Master gave him succor, just as

    He has woven radiance into the sun by day.

  26. حسبي بجاهك يا محمَّد إن عتى

    دهري وصرت لظل بابك جارا

    Your standing suffices me, O Muhammad, if it grows cruel—

    My time—and I have become a neighbor in your doorway's shade.

  27. وحططت رحلي في رحابك علَّ أن

    أمحو بحرمةِ جاهك الأوزارا

    And I have set down my saddle in your courts, hoping to

    Erase the burdens of sin through the sanctity of your standing.

  28. فالله قد أبداك في ملكوته

    لدجى المعائب ماحياً ستارا

    For God has manifested you in His kingdom,

    As one who effaces the darkness of faults and veils them.

  29. وأقام منك لكلِّ كسرٍ مقلقٍ

    مدداً بنفحة وهبه جبارا

    And from you He established, for every troubling fracture,

    A mending aid, through a waft of His bounty.

  30. صلى عليك الله يا علم الهدى

    ما ركب قومٍ للمدينة سارا

    May God bless you, O banner of guidance,

    Whenever a caravan of people travels to Medina;

  31. وعلى بنيك وصحبك الزهر الأولى

    ما الطلُّ نمنم رشُّه الأزهارا

    And upon your sons and your radiant, foremost companions,

    As long as the dew's spray embroiders the flowers;

  32. والتابعين وتابعيهم ما حدى

    بك سائقٌ فدعا القفول حيارى

    And upon the followers and their followers, as long as a chant is sung

    Of you by a camel-driver, who then summons the bewildered homeward travelers.