1. Meanings appeared in us, letters whose lines
Perplexed our minds, unable to grasp their import

2. Beckoning to us in us then hiding away
So we are expelled from ourselves by the blowing of their images

3. When Moses' intellect sought to behold them they refused
Yet for him their perfection was completed atop the mount

4. The people killed themselves in passionate love of them
And wasted their claims, captives of their own delusion

5. So by them they were in a garden hastened for them
Allowing them to enjoy through them in them in its castles

6. Blessed is the heart receiving revelation therein
With signs of truth, repealing its psalms

7. Sublime is the youth who knows the beauty of its attributes
Above the cherubs and houris of the Gardens

8. A gazelle of the heart's meadow glancing at us with eyes
That steal away patience, fearful of its aloofness

9. It appeared with a face of light, dazzling all creation
And I am veiled from it behind curtains

10. Were it not for the water of bashfulness on its face
Defending me, I'd have burned from its light