بِأَلفيْ مَرحبا حَيا لِساني

وَأَهلا قالَ في صَدري جَناني

With a thousand welcomes, hello my tongue

And greetings, said my heart in its garden

فَعودى يا أَويقاني وَهنى

لَقَد عادَ الهَنا بَعد التَواني

Return, my nightingale, and be happy

Indeed, happiness has returned after longing

وَيا حلو السَلام لعهد سلمى

صفت لِلعَينِ مِرآة العَيان

And oh, how sweet is peace to the era of peace

The mirror of sights has adorned my eyes

فَمن هنى يَهنيني بِعَيني

فَنور العَينِ عاد مَعَ الاِماني

So whoever makes me happy with their eyes

The light of the eye has returned with wishes

وَها اِنسانُها يا آلُ ودى

لطلعتكم بِنور الشَوق رَآني

For your rising, homesickness made me see you

It greeted you with the honey of intimacy from me

يَحييكم بِشَهد الاِنس عَنّي

فَهَنّوا بِالسَلامَةِ وَالاِمانِ

So congratulate with safety and security

My heart used to be bright lanterns

لَوامع نيرات كان قَلبي

لِشَوق ضِيائِها وَلَها يُعاني

Yearning for their light, and it suffers for them

My life is in my greetings to the light

حياتي في تحياتي لنور

بِماء حَياته صبحا سَقاني

With the water of its life it quenched me in the morning

My bliss, my blessing, solace of my beloved

نَعيمي نِعمَتي عَزى عَزيزي

دَليلي مُرشِدي سُبل التَهاني

My guide, my mentor, the ways of congratulations

With your absence and what I endured in it

ببعدك وَالَّذي كابدت فيهِ

وَما لاقيت من ضيم دَهاني

And what I suffered from grievous sorrows

And your loss which destroyed my existence

وَغييتك الَّتي أَفنت وُجودي

وَأَلقَت في غِيابَتِها عَياني

And cast my eyes in its absence

My joy at the reunion and the bliss of my nearness

سُروري بِاللُقا وَنَعيم قُربي

اِعاد بِعودِكَ الميلاد ثاني

Returned with your return, a second birth

I have silenced every wicked doctor

لَقَد اِرغُمت كل طبيب سوء

أَضاع بهزَلِهِ طول الزَمانِ

Who wasted his nonsense all this time

And they said he died, say they died of rage

وَقالوا مات قُل موتوا بِغيظ

فَجل القَصد حَيا قَد أَتاني

For the intended came alive, he came to me

And renewed with the reunion the life of my soul

وَجدد بِالوِصالِ حَياة روحي

أَعوذُهُ بِآيات لِثاني

I seek refuge for it in the verses of the Protector

So leave me, my friend, and friends leave

فَدَعني يا خَلى وَالخل تخلو

وَنكحل بِالثَنا جِفن الاِماني

And we will line with kohl the eyelid of wishes

For the mirror of beauty and the face of the full moon

لِمِرآة الجَمالِ وَوَجه بَدر

دَعاني يوسُف الثاني دَعاني

Joseph the Second called me, he called me

And I have prepared what is in the palm

وَقَد اِعددت ما في الكُف طرا

لِمَن بِقَميص برئي قَد حَباني

For the one who gifted me a shirt of innocence

My beloved, with what He gave you light

حَبيبي بِالَّذي اِعطاكَ نورا

تَقودُ بِهِ كَما تَرضى عَنائي

With which you guide as you wish my effort

And that light is from the niche of grace

وَذاكَ النورُ مِن مشكاة فَضل

بِهِ لِسَبيل مَقصودي هَداني

With it, He guided me to the path of my goal

If it probed my heart with fire

لِقَلبي اِن سَلاكَ صَلى بِنار

بِها تَكوى حَشاشاتي بِناني

With which it burns my thorns

And were it not for patience, I would have given my soul

وَلَولا الصَبر جِدت بِبَذل روحي

لِمَن حَيا بِقُربِكَ وَالتَداني

For one who lived in your nearness and intimacy

And I did not begrudge it life out of love

وَلَم أَبخَل بِها حبا لِعَيش

وَعَيش المَرءِ مَهما طالَ فاني

And the life of man, however long, is fleeting

Months have passed in affliction

وَقَد مَرَّت عَلى المَضنى شُهور

يُعاني مِن فُراقِكَ ما يُعاني

Suffering from your separation what it suffers

But I wanted to live so that

وَلكِنّي وددت العَيش كيما

أَراكَ كَما تَرى غيري تَراني

I can see you as you see others see me

So O you who tasted the shame of separation

فَيا مَن قَد بلوت بعار خل

وَيا مَن قَد شَقى شَوقا سَلاني

And O you who suffered longing, my misery

Do you think love can be abandoned?

أَبعذ الحب تَرى أَم يُواري

فَقول الصِدق يَهديكُم بَياني

So speak the truth, my eloquence will guide you

I die and my eyelid will see you, my beloved

أَموتُ وَمُقلَتي تَرآى عَزيزي

وَيَغفِرُ زِلَّتي مَن قَد يَراني

And He forgives my slip, whoever sees me

I extended in supplication the palms of my praise

بَسطت بِالاِبتِهال أَكف حَمدي

لِمَن بِاللُطفِ عَن كَف وِقائي

For the One who graciously provides my grasp

When the doctor despaired and abandoned me

اِذا يَئِسَ الطَبيبُ وَكل عَنّي

بِقُدرَتِهِ بِما أَرجو حَباني

With His power, He blessed me with what I hope for

And I cannot fully express my gratitude

وَلَستُ بِبالِغ مِقدار شُكري

لَوان جَوارِحي سَبَقتُ لِساني

If my limbs spoke, they would precede my tongue

I will plead misery for every friend

سَأَضرَعُ بِالشَقاءِ لكل خل

لِمَن ما دُمتُ عائِشَة شَفاني

For one who as long as I live, healed me