أباهي بوجدٍ قد تمكن في الحشا

أباهي بوجدٍ قد تمكن في الحشا

وذلك فضل الله يؤتيه من يشا

وذلك فضل الله يؤتيه من يشا

I glory in a rapture that has taken hold in my heart.

I boast of a passion that has taken root in my innermost being

And that is God's bounty, which He grants to whom He wills.

That is the grace of God, He gives it to whom He wishes

أسر بشوق روح الروح ذوقه

أسر بشوق روح الروح ذوقه

وكيفية منها حشاي قد احتشا

وكيفية منها حشاي قد احتشا

I rejoice in a longing whose savor is the soul of the soul,

I confide the longing of the soul, its taste

and in a state with which my heart has been filled.

And how it makes my inner self exult

الذ بشوق بعد ما كنت ميتا

الذ بشوق بعد ما كنت ميتا

وماني في وجد الغرام وانعشا

وماني في وجد الغرام وانعشا

I delight in longing, after having been dead,

I clung with yearning after I was dead

and [unclear wording] amid love's rapture, and revived me.

And I am not in the rapture of love and came back to life

كسبت ببذل الروح ذوقا من الهوى

كسبت ببذل الروح ذوقا من الهوى

من الراي ان يغني المصالح بالرشا

من الراي ان يغني المصالح بالرشا

By giving up my soul, I gained a taste of love;

I gained a taste of passion through giving my soul

it is prudent to further one's interests with bribes.

It is the view that good counsel satisfies with sprinkling

حما اللَه ظبيا صار في للجاظه

حما اللَه ظبيا صار في للجاظه

وصبرني عن غيره متوحشا

وصبرني عن غيره متوحشا

May God protect a gazelle—[the phrase about his glances is unclear]—

God protected a gazelle that came to graze in the meadow

and made me patiently shun everyone but him.

And granted me patience from other beasts

سقى اللَه غصناً ما يسا متعدلا

سقى اللَه غصناً ما يسا متعدلا

معادله في روضة الحس ما تشا

معادله في روضة الحس ما تشا

May God water a swaying, well-proportioned bough,

God watered a branch that did not straighten evenly

whose equal has never grown in the garden of beauty [reading uncertain].

Its match in the garden of perception did not sprout

محرك اشواق تحرك قده

محرك اشواق تحرك قده

يوقف دوران الزمان اذا مشا

يوقف دوران الزمان اذا مشا

The movement of his stature stirs longings;

It moves the passions that move the self

he halts the turning of time when he walks.

It stops the rotation of time if it walks

فلولا مدار الدهر مركز خاله

فلولا مدار الدهر مركز خاله

لكان نظام الكاينات مشوشا

لكان نظام الكاينات مشوشا

For were the center of his beauty mark not time's pivot,

If not for the cycle of fate, its empty center

the order of all beings would surely fall into confusion.

The system of existence would be chaotic

فلو كان عذب العمر من ين وصله

فلو كان عذب العمر من ين وصله

لما كان فرد من بني النوع عايشا

لما كان فرد من بني النوع عايشا

If life's sweetness came from the [spring?] of union with him,

If the sweetness of life were for those who attain union

not a single member of humankind would be alive.

No individual human would remain alive

ولو كان في عين الخيوة عفافه

ولو كان في عين الخيوة عفافه

لما زاد منها الخضر الا تعطشا

لما زاد منها الخضر الا تعطشا

And if his chastity were in the spring of life,

If the pupil of the eye had chastity in it

al-Khidr would gain from it only greater thirst.

The greens would not increase except in thirst

بديع زمان نور لطف جماله

بديع زمان نور لطف جماله

تحجب في سر التعشعشع واغتشا

تحجب في سر التعشعشع واغتشا

A wonder of the age: the light of his beauty's grace

Wondrous is the age whose light of grace

has hidden within the mystery of radiance and become veiled.

Is veiled in the secret of gushing and flooding

محير اهل العقل معجز حسنه

محير اهل العقل معجز حسنه

لان مع ا لاظهار في الاختفا فشا

لان مع ا لاظهار في الاختفا فشا

His miraculous beauty bewilders the people of reason,

It confuses the minds, a miracle its beauty

for, even while revealed, it spreads in concealment.

For with manifestation in hiding it diffused

بخديه نور لو يخالط بعضه

بخديه نور لو يخالط بعضه

مع الصبح قطعا لا يقارنه العشا

مع الصبح قطعا لا يقارنه العشا

On his cheeks is a light: if some of it mingled

With his cheeks a light that if mixed

with dawn, evening would certainly never accompany it.

With dawn, it would surely not compare to the night

نهاني عن ميل الوصال كانه

نهاني عن ميل الوصال كانه

توهم عن لوم العواذل واختشا

توهم عن لوم العواذل واختشا

He forbade me to yearn for union, as though

It prohibited me from inclining toward union as if

he imagined the censurers' reproach and grew afraid.

It suspected blame from the chaste and took cover

قنعت بتصوير الخيال ضرورة

قنعت بتصوير الخيال ضرورة

نهيت مع الاجبار عن ذلك الرشا

نهيت مع الاجبار عن ذلك الرشا

Of necessity, I contented myself with an imagined likeness;

I sufficed with picturing in my imagination out of necessity

I was forcibly barred from that fawn.

I was forbidden from that sprinkling

صبرت على هم وحزن وحسرة

صبرت على هم وحزن وحسرة

رأيت جميعاً في الحشا محوشا

رأيت جميعاً في الحشا محوشا

I endured care, grief, and regret;

I was patient with anxiety, sorrow and regret

I saw them all gathered in my heart.

I saw them all erased in the meadow

فان عشت في صبري تأمل مقصدي

فان عشت في صبري تأمل مقصدي

وان لم اعش زبني على عاذلي وشا

وان لم اعش زبني على عاذلي وشا

If I live on in my patience, reflect upon my purpose;

So if I live in my patience, consider my aim

and if I do not live, [unclear word] against my censurer, who spread slander.

And if I do not live, bury me by my critic and sprinkle

خليلي غير العشق مالي صنعةً

خليلي غير العشق مالي صنعةً

على وجه جمهور الامور هو الغشا

على وجه جمهور الامور هو الغشا

My two friends, I have no craft but love;

My friend, apart from passion I have no craft

it is a veil over the face of the multitude of affairs.

Over the face of all matters it is the cover

محى حين تصوير الهوى قلم القضا

محى حين تصوير الهوى قلم القضا

على لوح قلبي كل نقش تنقشا

على لوح قلبي كل نقش تنقشا

When portraying love, the pen of destiny erased

When picturing love, the pen of destiny erased

every design inscribed upon the tablet of my heart.

Every inscription it carved on the tablet of my heart

سرى العشق مجموع الفعال فوحش

سرى العشق مجموع الفعال فوحش

فلا عيب لي لو ما ارتكبت فواحشا

فلا عيب لي لو ما ارتكبت فواحشا

Love pervaded all deeds and made them wild;

Passion flowed, the sum of deeds thus it raged

so I am blameless if I have committed no shameful deeds.

So I have no fault if I committed some indecencies

يكدرني لوم العواذل في الهوى

يكدرني لوم العواذل في الهوى

فيا ليتني عن قولهم كنت اطرشا

فيا ليتني عن قولهم كنت اطرشا

The censurers' reproach in love troubles me;

Blame from the chaste irritates me in passion

oh, would that I were deaf to their words!

Oh, if only about their words I were deaf

فلم تمح اثار الهوى عن سريرتي

فلم تمح اثار الهوى عن سريرتي

وان لامني فيها العذول وناقشا

وان لامني فيها العذول وناقشا

Yet love's traces have not been erased from my inmost self,

So the traces of passion did not erase from my inner conscience

even if the censurer blames me for them and argues.

Even if the chaste blamed me and argued

فكيف انا في العشق جهلاً وانه

فكيف انا في العشق جهلاً وانه

مفيض صفا العقل والروح والحشا

مفيض صفا العقل والروح والحشا

How, then, could I be ignorant in love, when it

How am I ignorantly in passion, and it is

pours forth purity of mind, soul, and heart?

The outpouring of pure reason, soul, and mind

لمنعت نبي عز رفعه قدره

لمنعت نبي عز رفعه قدره

بساط كمال القدر في العرش افرشا

بساط كمال القدر في العرش افرشا

[Unclear opening] a prophet whose elevated rank is glorious,

If it prevented the Prophet of mighty worth exalted is his value

a carpet of perfect dignity was spread at the Throne.

From spreading the carpet of perfect value in the Highest Heaven

نبي كريمٌ غصن قدر كماله

نبي كريمٌ غصن قدر كماله

على العرش بالفوع الرفيع تعرشا

على العرش بالفوع الرفيع تعرشا

A noble prophet: the bough of his consummate dignity

A noble Prophet, a branch whose worth's perfection

climbed upon the Throne with a lofty branch [reading uncertain].

Is over the Highest Heaven in the highest orbit

اذا نور المعراج برق براقه

اذا نور المعراج برق براقه

فمن سيره قد صارا دهم ابرشا

فمن سيره قد صارا دهم ابرشا

When the lightning of his Buraq illuminated the Ascension,

When the light of the Ascension flashed with its brilliance

so, through its passage, a black steed became dappled.

For his journey had become a luminous lightning

شر البحر للاحسان ولجود والندى

شر البحر للاحسان ولجود والندى

اليه فضولي ما يلا متعطشا

اليه فضولي ما يلا متعطشا

[Unclear opening] the ocean of beneficence, generosity, and bounty;

The evils of the sea sought his benevolence, generosity and dew

toward him Fuzuli inclines, thirsting.

To it my superfluous would not cease being thirsty