1. لا تبغ عن باب الحبيب براحاً

    والثم ثراه بكرة ورواحا

    Do not seek departure from the beloved's door.

    And kiss its soil morning and evening.

  2. عفّر بترب الدار خدك والتزم

    ما عشت فيها أنة ونواحا

    Dust your cheek with the dwelling's earth, and persist,

    As long as you live there, in groaning and lamentation.

  3. طارح حمام حمى الأحبة نادبا

    وامزج بفيض دموعك الأقداحا

    Exchange cries with the doves of the loved ones' sanctuary, mourning,

    And mix your overflowing tears into the goblets.

  4. واجرح بماء الدمع خدّك إنه

    جرح يعاني في الفؤاد جراحا

    And wound your cheek with tear-water, for it is

    A wound that contends with wounds within the heart.

  5. قف بالربوع وناد في عرصاتها

    واسمح بنفسك كل تنال رباحا

    Stand at the dwellings, and call out in their courtyards,

    And give your whole self freely; you will reap a gain.

  6. وإذا سكرت بنبرة الحب التي

    تهدي السرور وتذهب الأتراحا

    And when you are drunk on love's note, which

    Brings joy and banishes sorrows,

  7. فاذهب لحيهم ولذ بجنابهم

    واجعل سماعك في الوجود صياحا

    Then go to their encampment and seek refuge by their side,

    And make your listening a cry throughout existence.

  8. لا لوم للسكران في شرع الهوى

    إن فاه بالسر المصون وباحا

    No blame falls on the drunken one under love's law,

    If he utters the guarded secret and reveals it.

  9. واستروح الأرواح من تنظيمهم

    وزها بروض وصالهم وارتاحا

    And breathe in the breezes from their compositions,

    And flourish in the garden of union with them, and rest.

  10. أرواح أزهار الوصال إذا سرت

    تحيى بنشق نسيمها الأرواحا

    When the fragrances of union's blossoms drift,

    They bring souls to life as their breeze is inhaled.

  11. قم فانتشق إن لم تكن بك زكمة

    ريح الحبيب فعرفه قد فاحا

    Rise and inhale, if you have no head cold,

    The beloved's scent, for his fragrance has spread.

  12. ولتبتكرها قهوة تشفى الجوى

    وتعيد أحزان الورى أفراحا

    And drink it at dawn—a wine that heals heartache,

    And turns humankind's sorrows into joys.

  13. من كرمة التكريم قدما كونت

    فاشرب بها كأس الوصال مباحا

    From the vine of honor it was formed of old;

    So drink with it the cup of union, lawfully.

  14. أفنت نضارتها نظار ذوى النهى

    وتوقدت وسط الدجى مصباحا

    Its radiance annihilated the thinkers among those endowed with reason,

    And it blazed as a lamp amid the darkness.

  15. هي أسكرت أهل الهوى وكستهم

    عند التواجد حلة ووشاحا

    It intoxicated the people of love and clothed them,

    During induced ecstasy, in a robe and a sash.

  16. فتراهم عند السماع كأنهم

    قضبٌ تميس بها الرياح رواحا

    So you see them during the listening, as though they were

    Slender boughs swayed by the winds at evening.

  17. من لم يسلم حالهم في وجدهم

    لا شام برق الوصل مهما لاحا

    Whoever does not accept their state in their ecstasy

    Never beholds the lightning of union, however it flashes.

  18. فهم البدور إذا عدمت أهلةً

    وهم الشموس إذا عدمت صباحا

    For they are full moons when you lack crescents,

    And they are suns when you have no dawn.