1. Love has conquered and taken complete control
To whom can we flee for protection?

2. In a radiant, moonlit dawn
With her beauty, she enthralled everyone

3. O temple whose mysteries appeared
To us, becoming dear to us all

4. A face veiled in virtues and splendor
Outshining all other faces in allure

5. Our souls delighted in their demise
Seeking annihilation as their refuge

6. We see him closer than we see him
And see none but him, none but him as our refuge

7. He whose beauty's rising sun we behold
While our hearts and eyes vie in fervor

8. Existence beholds existence through him
As nonexistence beholds nothingness in him, ever present

9. Our minds, made incomprehensible to him
By his might, cannot fathom him

10. Our hearts plunged into the sea of his love
Seeking to meet him, knowing no deliverance

11. The beloved came down, so lovers of the beloved longed
Or after he came down, did they find any consolation?

12. Yesterday, his dwelling was in Tawilah
Today, it became an encampment in Baghdad

13. No shame if his lover sheds his mantle
And seeks refuge in his love alone

14. His charms appeared to us in the silks of existence
Having donned subtlety as his raiment

15. And I say I saw Zayd and Khalid
No - neither did I see that one nor find refuge

16. And Taha the Prophet saw him here
In Zayd ibn Harithah, and loved him dearly

17. And with Joseph the Sincere, Jacob beheld his face
When his passion caused him harm

18. Our attributes appeared to us through his attributes
And al-Junayd saw through him the discordance of existence

19. Indeed, his passion alone is my creed
To which I pledged allegiance to my master

20. How strange that he who is so abundant confused us
While the One Guide could deliver us

21. He makes miserable and makes happy with the same
You see him shine like lightning and drizzle

22. By God, O glances of his, do not wound
My heart, for with your arrows lies perdition

23. You wine of communion, you have effaced us
Forever drunk, with a scattering wind

24. If only I had the witnessed beauty of the absent one
I would blame the separations of passion, alas

25. He is present, though without any sign
So if you are ignorant, you will say “who is this?”

26. His lovers are infatuated with his eyes
And their hearts have been melted by him

27. He continues to abandon them and frequent his aloofness
Yet no one asks “why?”

28. They see him as beautiful, his deeds as refined
And his torment as pleasurable

29. Through him the tribes were united in passion
And when far apart, they scattered, thighs broken

30. The breeze brings them tidings of ardor
Musk exhaling in its passing, fragrant

31. It excites them, and leaves tremble above litter
Drawing near the distant, gathering the scattered