Sol 5.6

  1. My hours grew sweet with a beloved—“k” [an isolated, uncertain letter].

    His love is my treasure.

  2. You desire one from whom we have no annihilation [text uncertain].

    In the setting-right of my affairs.

  3. I am he, the master of wine among the fair ones [wording uncertain].

    Tearing apart became sweet to me.

  4. Spread my prayer rug with wine, out in the open.

    Bring the pitcher near.

  5. Bear my singing in the language of the Path,

    O people of true realization.

  6. O I—from Him I am, until I am.

    I wandered, lost in my intoxication.

  7. Let me hear the sweetness of the melodies of song,

    That perhaps we may know,

  8. So that we may awaken, O dervishes, from my intoxication.

    Pluck the lute’s strings,

  9. And carry me atop the trellis of my vine—

    A lover, lost.

  10. And place some of its water toward my qibla,

    And press the grape cluster.

  11. And make its leaves a shroud for me;

    Its water is my purification.

  12. Above, or from below, or on our right—

    Dig my grave.

  13. [Corrupt text:] “bimtu,” “danfāsī,” my “dalf,” and the buttons.

    And I remained naked.

  14. And I walked among the great trees of the dwellings,

    While I was enraptured,

  15. Among dear companions and cups passed around,

    Bewitching the oils—or perhaps, in a corrupt reading, the minds.

  16. I can never dispense with drinking;

    Passion is my intoxication.

  17. And claim your belonging, O “fafara,” O our mother [text uncertain].

    Conceal my secret.

  18. I thought that I loved Him,

    Yet He loves me.

  19. I draw away, while He draws near to me.

    Become gentler with me.

  20. Love unveiled itself and drew near—then “fadallī” [text uncertain].

    At the hour of remembrance,

  21. “Faḥat”—one of you—our sorrows [corrupt text].

    And my secret became hidden.

  22. [Text uncertain:] then he wandered, separation—let it pierce me.

    Hand over what is mine.

  23. I love Him, while He “bimashqunī” [apparently: rends me].

    Accept my state.

  24. He led me; when He appeared, He made me inhale His fragrance.

    I seek Him, the precious one.

  25. He is a spirit to me who set the body upright.

    He is within my secret.

  26. Do not pervade; scatter in our sea [text uncertain].

    That—He—is my sea.

Sol 5.6