1. You deserve all praise, O You who have graced the people of the spiritual path
With the unveiling of the hidden knowledge of the truth

2. And revived them with the spirit of all creation
And granted them Your prophetic secrets

3. Muhammad, the essence of praise, the sun of His beauty
Through whom the prophets gained inspiration

4. So may Allah send blessings upon him, a pure soul
For his essence which is a spirit and body of mercy

5. And his Family and Companions, none were guided to their path
Except seekers through the sanctity of the Shadhili way

6. And next, praise be to Allah as the first duty
For the blessings of souls and humanity

7. And beyond, the blessings themselves transcend
Being encompassed by any praise or spiritual path

8. And when Allah, majestic is His majesty
Guided me through my poetry to follow the spiritual way

9. I saw what I had only heard in part before
And witnessed the secrets of the hidden unseen world

10. When I do not find in praise, though it is obligatory
A tongue of words or a capacity equal to it

11. I realized that praise is from Him to Himself
And I acknowledged that incapacity is the limit of my ability

12. The first of them is the blessed Imam, revered scholar
Saint, devout, learned in Sacred Law

13. He is Sayyid al-Bashir son of Aziza
And a branch of pure, noble roots

14. His master was the Mufti of the age, I mean Muhammad
He is al-Shadhili, son of al-Muddab, the trusted

15. His father preceded him, so mention him saying
O Umar, may you be greeted in the best greeting

16. And ad-Dardir authorized him, and his master
Ali al-Saidi, of vast traditional knowledge

17. From Shaykh Nur ad-Din, from his spiritual sun Ahmad al-Badawi in every direction
And from his master Ibn al-Marabout, named Muhammad, from his father Samaia

18. And his master Ibn al-Qassim, I mean Muhammad
To whom contentment has raised him to the peak of truth

19. From al-Qalafti, from his master al-Wasti, who was quenched
By the beloved's drink and the cup of affection

20. From al-Kamil al-Mursi, from al-Shadhili, whose lights
Illuminated the stars of sainthood

21. Say about him, the master of both worlds in one
And say the pure, in body and soul

22. From Ibn Mashish al-Qutb, from his master
From al-Hasan al-Basri who won spiritual death

23. From Ibn Daqqaq and his master al-Ansari
From the Pole Ibrahim, the learned of Basra

24. From the Knower Shaykh Abu al-Hasan whom
Al-Junayd guided, Imam of the spiritual path

25. From the scholar al-Mirari, from Jabir ibn
Abdillah, Imam of alchemical wisdom

26. From al-Hasan the grandson, lofty in rank
The first of the second, my master of Paradise

27. And then his father, I mean the door to the City of Knowledge
Ali the valiant lion on the day of battle

28. From al-Mustafa, then al-Amin by His revelation
From Allah, exalted is He, Lord of creation

29. So excellent is the strong rope, if a servant holds fast to it
He will attain the firmest handhold

30. What a mercy Allah has placed its essence
In the shells of the secret of the Shadhili masters

31. Men whom you see the states radiating from them
As suns illuminating the heart by force

32. As if the fragrance of musk from some of their sanctity
But far be it that musk can match the diffusion of Hamza's fragrance

33. They are the people whose company brings no misery
The intoxicated by the single cup

34. For their ecstasy, a knower has deemed sobriety improper
Because they are the elite of those granted divine care

35. And if concealing sainthood were not obligatory
Fearing people's inclination towards ignorance

36. The Messenger of Allah would have told the Companions
Of the party of the Shadhili Saint, secret of the Quranic signs

37. I was inspired to say this in a dream, by His permission
And I have not said it out of mere intellect and thought

38. The time has come for me to restrain the reins, and what can I hope
When praising the Elect, for my praise and poem to reach him

39. Upon him the prayers of Allah, for as long as his light
Remains in the niche of the breast of the master of the Cave

40. And his Family and Companions for as long as its people
Revolve as stars glittering in every direction