1. ذليلٌ دمع مقلته دليلُ

    على أن الحشا منه عليلُ

    A lowly man—the tears of his eye are proof

    That his inmost heart is ailing.

  2. ألم ببابكم يبغى شفاءً

    لداء البعد فهو له قتول

    He has come to your door, seeking healing

    For the malady of separation, for it is fatal to him.

  3. أيخصب روض أهل القرب منكم

    ويمحق روض آمالي المحول

    Does the garden of those near you flourish,

    While drought destroys the garden of my hopes?

  4. ويكتَبُ بالظهور لهم ظهير

    ويمحو خط خطّتي الخمول

    And is a decree of prominence written for them,

    While obscurity erases the outline of my design?

  5. وتسقيهم رحيقاً سلسبيلا

    ومالي نحو مشربهم سبيل

    And do you give them sweet-flowing nectar to drink,

    While I have no path to their drinking place?

  6. لئن فازوا بقربكم وتاهوا

    ولذ لهم بساحتكم مقيل

    If indeed they have won nearness to you and grown proud,

    And their midday rest in your courtyard has been sweet,

  7. وغيّب فشافع ما اقترفت هو ان ذلى

    وأعظمُ شافع أني ذليل

    And concealed ...; so my intercessor for what I have committed is my abasement [text unclear].

    And the greatest intercessor is that I am lowly.

  8. فشافع ما اقترفت هو ان ذُلّى

    وأعظم شافع أنى ذليل

    So my intercessor for what I have committed is my abasement [syntax unclear].

    And the greatest intercessor is that I am lowly.

  9. أنيلوني رضاً منكم وقرباً

    وحائى مجدكم ألا تنيلوا

    Grant me your favor and nearness,

    And far be it from your glory not to grant them [probable reading].

  10. لئن قطَعت سبيل الوصل عني

    خطوب شرحها عندي يطول

    Even if the path of union has been cut off from me

    By calamities whose recounting would take me long,

  11. فحسبي أنني عبد قطوع

    وحسبي أنك المولى الوصول

    Then it suffices me that I am a servant who keeps severing ties,

    And it suffices me that you are the master who ever maintains them.

  12. بحق جلالكم وجمالكم لا

    تذيقوني النوى فبكم أصول

    By your majesty and your beauty, do not

    Make me taste separation, for through you I prevail.

  13. أجيروني وأحيوا موت قلبي

    وأدنوني وزلاتي أقيلوا

    Grant me refuge and bring my dead heart to life,

    And bring me near, and pardon my lapses.