1. With what tenderness and harmony you walk,
who taught you that, O you who are so graceful?

2. I implore you by God, O soul that is torn apart
between ardor, grief, scattering, and melancholy,

3. and a mind that its Creator has exempted
from obligations due to the hardships it endures,

4. I feel despair where there is no hope to console me,
a hint in embracing the letter Lām and Alif.

5. If you have inclined an ear to his words,
you would know how pearl essence lies in oyster shells.

6. And if you looked at the parchment in his hand,
you would see how the garden grows in pages.