1. If you wish to come close
To the intimacy of union,

2. Then passionately yearn
For the Beloved, and care not.

3. If you wish to ascend,
Then leave the universes behind,

4. Become selfless and increase in love,
Thus shall glory be yours.

5. And follow the Truth,
And set out for the arena,

6. You will attain what you seek
To perfection.

7. Then passionately yearn
For the Beloved, and care not.

8. I who know well
The Guide of the way,

9. The light of Truth
Journeyed to my innermost being.

10. And in my intoxication
I awakened not,

11. And the permitted drink
Was sweet to me.

12. Then passionately yearn
For the Beloved, and care not.

13. O the bliss of union,
And the open declaration of it!

14. O the joyful news
For the free!

15. And O the misery
For those still lost,

16. Wandering bewildered,
While others are rejoined.

17. Then passionately yearn
For the Beloved, and care not.