1. O you who took my heart from me
Your love bewildered me

2. You veiled me from myself
O beloved, so I did not appear

3. And I was absent from my eyes
As if I did not appear

4. So I started looking for myself
Maybe I will find myself

5. And I said to myself, leave me alone
And let my union with you suffice

6. Whoever wants to remain
Will perish from illusions

7. And will truly become characterized
With the attributes of servants

8. For he will ascend
The heights of greatness

9. Living an everlasting sovereign, satisfied
With his poverty

10. This is the one who is content
In this existence, a sultan

11. So he does not aspire
For Satan to gloat over him

12. And when he is deceived
He will suffer loss

13. So understand and take from me, my son
And after this, keep me company

14. If you believe me
Leave foolishness and understand

15. And listen to hear me
This knowledge is learned

16. And beware and do not belittle
One whose ignorance is known

17. For he is tiresomely stupid
So leave him and accompany me

18. Where is the one who seeks
And understands the meaning?

19. Let him then observe
The star of wisdom from us

20. If he appears, he draws near
And remains reciting our verses

21. Passion for the beautiful, my friend, makes me cease to exist
And my drinking from the lowly