1. إني أفيق وفي أرضي لها فيق

    تبكي السماءُ لها لينفقَ السوقُ

    I regain my senses, and in my earth are stores of milk for her.

    The sky weeps for her, so that the market may thrive.

  2. وإنني ضابطٌ فيما يصرِّفني

    وليس فيما أتاني منه تعويقُ

    And I remain in control amid what turns me about.

    And nothing that has come to me from Him contains any hindrance.

  3. الحقُّ يعجب من حالي ومن قلقي

    مع الأحبةِ والأحوالُ تلفيق

    The Real marvels at my state and at my unrest

    with the beloveds, while the states are a patchwork.

  4. لم ينتشر خبر لي أنني رجلٌ

    أهوى الأمور ولي بحثٌ وتحقيق

    No report has spread about me that I am a man

    who loves these matters and pursues inquiry and verification.

  5. إنَّ الموافقةَ الكبرى بدايتها

    عند الرجالِ عناياتٌ وتوفيق

    Indeed, the supreme accord has its beginning

    among the men in providential favors and divine aid.

  6. ما ينفق الذهب المصنوعُ عندهمُ

    إلا إذا جاءه سبكٌ وتعليق

    Manufactured gold finds no currency among them

    unless it undergoes casting and suspension.

  7. فإن تسامح فيه بالحمى صنع

    فغنَّ ذلك تمويه وتزويق

    If a craftsman takes liberties with it within the protected precinct,

    then that is gilding and embellishment.

  8. وليس يعلم ما قلناه فيه سوى

    مجرِّبٌ فيه إيمانٌ وتصديق

    And none knows what we have said concerning Him except

    one who has experienced it, in whom are faith and assent.

  9. الله يعلم أني فيه ذو عَمَهٍ

    وإنني مؤمنٌ به وصدِّيق

    God knows that I am bewildered concerning Him,

    and indeed I believe in Him and am utterly truthful.

  10. لا يعتريني هوى فيما علمت به

    وليس عندي تزيينٌ وتنميق

    No desire assails me in what I have learned of Him,

    and with me there is no adornment or embellishment.

  11. الصدقُ حليتنا والحقُّ حُلتنا

    فمن يخالفُ حالي فهو زِنديق

    Truthfulness is our adornment, and the Real our robe.

    So whoever opposes my state is a heretic.

  12. والله لو عرفتْ نفسي بمن كلفتْ

    لم يلهها زجلٌ عنه وتصفيق

    By God, if my soul knew whom it was enamored of,

    neither chanting nor clapping would distract it from Him.

  13. لما علمت بأنّ الأمر ذو صورٍ

    فلو يخاطبني حَبرٌ وبِطريق

    When I learned that the matter has forms,

    then, were a rabbi and a patriarch to address me,

  14. لم أنكر الأمر إنَّ الأمر فيه كما

    ذكرته فهو خلاَّق ومخلوق

    I would not deny the matter; indeed, the matter in Him is as

    I have described it—for He is ever-creating and created.

  15. إن النياقَ تجاري نحو كعبته

    وإنها هم يدعونها النوق

    Indeed, the she-camels race toward His Kaaba,

    and indeed, it is they who call them 'she-camels.'