تَدَّعي الحبَّ ثم تَنسَى الحَبِيبَا

لَستَ فيما ادَّعيتَ إلا كَذُوبا

You claim love, then forget the beloved

In your claim, you are nothing but a liar

إنما الحبُّ أخذةٌ تَملِكُ القَل

بَ جَمِيعاً فليس تُبقِي نَصِيبَا

Love takes hold of the heart completely

Leaving no place for another

وإذا مَسَّ القلب طيفُ تناسٍ

كان سلطان حبه محجوبا

When the heart is touched by forgetfulness

Love's power becomes veiled

لي حَبِيبٌ أجابني ودعاني

فله الفَضلُ داعياً ومجيبا

I have a beloved who answered me and called me

To him is the merit, both caller and responder

إن قُربي غليه غاية بُعدي

فأراني منه بَعِيداً قَريبا

My nearness to him is the extent of my distance

So I see myself far, yet near

فبقائي به فنائيَ عنّي

وحُضُوري أراه عني مغيبا

My being with him is my loss of self

And my presence, he sees as absent from me

يا جَنَانِي ويا لِسَانِي اذكرَاهُ

لا تَغِيبَا عن ذِكرِهِ فَتَخِيبَا

Oh my soul, my tongue, remember him

Do not absent his remembrance and fail

ذكره قد تقدَّم الذِّكرُ مِنِّي

رُبَّ أمرٍ رأيته مقلُوبَا

Remembrance of him preceded remembrance from me

Many things I have seen reversed

وإذا ماحَقَقتَ فالذاكر المذذ

كور فانظر تَجِدهُ سِرّاً عجيبا

And when you realize the rememberer and the remembered

Look, and you’ll find it a wondrous mystery

وبِخَيرِ الوَرَى اعتِصَامِي وحسبي

بِشَفِيعِي لكلِّ داءٍ طبيباَ

And in the best of creations is my bond and pride

My intercessor, the healer of every malady

فَصلاةٌ عليه ثُمَّ سَلاَمٌ

يملآنِ السماءَ والأرضَ طِيبَا

So prayer upon him, then peace

Fill the heavens and earth with goodness.