ما قرّةُ العينِ غيرَ عيني

فبيني كان الهوى وبيني

Nothing delights my eye but my eye,

Between me was love, and between me,

والله لولا وجودُ كوني

ما لاحَ عيني لغير عيني

By God, were it not for my existence,

My eye would not have shone for other than my eye,

فكونه ما رأيتُ فيه

أكمل من صورتي وكوني

Its existence which I saw in it,

Is more perfect than my image and my existence,

بالبينِ أوصلت كلَّ بين

فقام شكرُ البينِ بيني

With existence I connected all existence,

So gratitude for existence arose within me,

قد أحسَّ الله في وجودي

عند أداءِ الفروضِ عوني

God felt within my existence,

When performing obligations, supported me,

أشهدني فيه علم ذاتي

في هذه الدارِ قبل حيني

Made me witness within it my essence,

In this abode, before my time,

لا فرَّقَ الله يا حبيبي

ما بين أنفاسِه وبيني

May God not separate, my beloved,

What is between His breaths and me.