1. Love has watered my heart with its wine, continuously
Yet it has established no justice for reproach, nor change

2. The judge of love has ruled since dawn estrangement upon it
Ailing with an illness that is incurable and cannot be healed

3. My days are a river between my eyelids and my inner eye
My nights are a boundless sea beneath which lies stillness

4. Wounded by the arrows of love, passion has manifested in him
Thus he has revealed what he revealed and hidden what he hid

5. Yearnings, dark of heart, have settled in him
Elevating him with gentleness, humbling him gently

6. The night companions attempt consoling me, aggrieved
Does the consoler find one who has lost familiarity?

7. We were wakeful while they slept, then blamed our eyes
Indeed, they spoke truly to us - the watcher is not like the drowsy

8. For the sincere lover, his heart suffices
Bitterness in his lament over the harshness of what he endures

9. What has strengthened the limbs of the lover except
The hope of union with the beloved - its fingers clutched tightly

10. If the eyes of the beloved are lost to us, then in truth
Contentment with his beautiful traces suffices one contented

11. If you do not see the noble sandal, then bow down
To its image, dwelling upon kissing it

12. Stop, smelling the scent of its spirit
A soul besotted, having relinquished its body halted

13. Do not refuse, in kissing a beloved you love
When kissing is possible - not weakly nor feebly

14. She appeared a garden, musky in her delight, the eye
Nearly envies her scent so fine to the senses

15. Can a head pressed to her exist?
Can an eyelid shut beside her ever refrain?

16. She turns away harm and shields against its affliction
And if not for a prior decree, she would have turned away contagion

17. She brings gain in the market of earning, a blessing
And avoids in the race to attain the heights, deviation

18. A spear reddened with blood, and a sharpened arrow
A Yemeni sword, and a thorough striking

19. So roll up your sleeves, reveal every secret you conceal
But beware concealing in your explanation or exclusion

20. And arbitrate for her; she by merit is the judge
The three: sacred law, reason, and norm

21. A predecessor has passed in service of the sandal
So be a successor in what they pursued, not a failure

22. They saw in this lowly world a means
To proximity with God in the next, brought near

23. I see the roaming poets enraptured
Extolling their beloved's description with portrayal

24. Spreading the fame of the Benchmark and the Pure Dwelling
And flying with the praises of the Pleiades and Canopus

25. As for me, my master, in your sandal's form
I have gone beyond portraying and describing, piercing them

26. I and my description are unique in beauty
As one who desires to expend two seas drawing from them

27. Equal to the sand of the sandal with pure soil
Lest the evils of the sun outweigh the pleiades

28. O you whose fingers have quenched the thirst of thousands
Just as you have granted victory over thousands

29. A hand named relief amidst dire poverty
Just as it was called a shield against enemies

30. And whoever stood behind him in the Night Journey and Gathering
Every prophet and messenger of God, arrayed in rows

31. A prophet who turned the ages, favoring him
Thus we are unafraid, nor harsh forevermore

32. He has skill in the knowledge of every hidden thing
With certainty, though he has not alighted upon a single letter

33. Reaching him is the knowledge of what Layla's daughters
Once concealed in the well of Dhirwan and Jiffa

34. And what is in the sheep's foreleg that
The Jews distorted, yet he pardoned and forgave

35. The kingdom of the Throne from him is not unseen
He beholds it while his eyes sleep uncovered

36. Sleep comes over him lawfully, while his
Wakeful heart has never slumbered for a moment

37. The precincts of the Sacred House have not been tracked
In the script of Quraysh when it disavowed all that is disavowed

38. For your blessed birth there are famed signs
That have clarified the ambiguity of the transmitters completely

39. And in what Halima's eyes saw when she saw
You adopted - he is the most fortunate, healing whoever seeks healing

40. Had the moon not responded when you called it
It would not have split in half or halves again

41. Your mother of the believers would not be, though mighty
Except that her measure held back the flood fully

42. Beside your miracles, the stars of the sky
In ascent, beauty, loftiness, are configured

43. Neither time can enumerate them, even if
Its nights and days became ink and scrolls

44. Through you, God called the world of reason into confusion
Deceiving them in justice, and guiding them in kindness

45. The stars assumed from you guidance
And the sun of morning, dawn, and sweet basil

46. Your integrity unveiled what it manifested, and so blindness parted
Your face beautified, your heart purified

47. You enlightened the darkness of your enemies' hearts
As revelations giving guidance shone upon them, overwhelming

48. My eyes upon you are ever wakeful, if the eyes should sleep
Nor has my imagination, whilst I live, seen its like

49. A cheek beneath the ocean of soil
I have devoted it to myself - it will only dry if it dries

50. A confused idea has cast the perplexed pilgrim
Halfway from where he did not expect to be cast

51. And a heart which love has undertaken to depict its form
Like a pine tree, then fully possessed it, revolving

52. So its sweetness and its torment upon it were equal
It never asked to be excused, nor did it excuse

53. Hair beautifully composed, if its shin letter contained victory
The chaste maidens of the quarters would desire it accessible

54. But if the Prophet's right is not true, then it is mere ornament
If the two earthquakes occur, you will find it a cave

55. I have followed the Syrian in the faa, certain
That I fall short of comprehending it, weaker

56. I am the follower, the conveyor, confirming
Their explanation through it, hoping for your kindness

57. I have taken you as a cave, though I fear
Thus I dread not amidst events, anxiety

58. So shelter me and whoever your hands have sheltered, their wings
Will be safe, living his days without feathers plucked

59. And set me free from great sins
Whose pact has overwhelmed me - would that I were sufficed!

60. Upon you, all of God's prayers
And his peace, however long a mind endures

61. And upon your family, and the companions whom
Walking humbly on earth has shaded with canopies