1. تَدَّعي الحبَّ ثم تَنسَى الحَبِيبَا

    لَستَ فيما ادَّعيتَ إلا كَذُوبا

    You claim love, then forget the beloved;

    You are nothing but a liar in what you have claimed.

  2. إنما الحبُّ أخذةٌ تَملِكُ القَل

    بَ جَمِيعاً فليس تُبقِي نَصِيبَا

    Love is but a seizure that possesses the heart

    Entirely, leaving no portion untouched.

  3. وإذا مَسَّ القلب طيفُ تناسٍ

    كان سلطان حبه محجوبا

    And when a phantom of willful forgetting touches the heart,

    The sovereignty of its love is veiled.

  4. لي حَبِيبٌ أجابني ودعاني

    فله الفَضلُ داعياً ومجيبا

    I have a beloved who answered me and called me;

    So his is the grace, in calling and in answering.

  5. إن قُربي غليه غاية بُعدي

    فأراني منه بَعِيداً قَريبا

    Indeed, my nearness to him is my utmost distance;

    So I see myself far from him, yet near.

  6. فبقائي به فنائيَ عنّي

    وحُضُوري أراه عني مغيبا

    So my abiding through him is my passing away from myself;

    And my presence, I see, makes me absent from myself.

  7. يا جَنَانِي ويا لِسَانِي اذكرَاهُ

    لا تَغِيبَا عن ذِكرِهِ فَتَخِيبَا

    O my heart, and O my tongue, both remember him;

    Do not be absent from remembrance of him, lest you both fail.

  8. ذكره قد تقدَّم الذِّكرُ مِنِّي

    رُبَّ أمرٍ رأيته مقلُوبَا

    His remembrance has already preceded my remembrance;

    Many a matter I have seen reversed.

  9. وإذا ماحَقَقتَ فالذاكر المذذ

    كور فانظر تَجِدهُ سِرّاً عجيبا

    And when you truly discern, the rememberer is the remembered;

    So look, and you will find it a wondrous secret.

  10. وبِخَيرِ الوَرَى اعتِصَامِي وحسبي

    بِشَفِيعِي لكلِّ داءٍ طبيباَ

    And I seek refuge in the best of creation; sufficient for me

    Is my intercessor, a physician for every ailment.

  11. فَصلاةٌ عليه ثُمَّ سَلاَمٌ

    يملآنِ السماءَ والأرضَ طِيبَا

    So may blessings be upon him, then peace,

    Both filling heaven and earth with fragrance.