القى الهوى في القلب ما ألقى

فلا تسل عن كنُه ما ألقى

Love cast in my heart what it cast

So ask not about the nature of what it cast

لقيتُ منه الجهد في لذة

لأنني عبدٌ له حقا

I found in it pleasure in suffering

For I am truly its slave

أضلنا الله على علمنا

به فما أعذبَ ما نلقى

God misguided us knowingly

About it so how sweet is what we encounter

تعبَّدَ القلبُ هواه فما

ينفكُّ قلبي للهوى رقا

The heart enslaved itself to its passion so my heart

Cannot detach from love even slightly

رقيتُ للحبِّ إلى راحة

ملذوذة غيري بها يشقى

I became tender to love until comfort

Delightful, others suffer from it

لما درى بأنني عبدُه

قضى بضربي الغرب والشرقا

When it realized I am its slave

It decreed my striking east and west

قد دبَّت فيما حاز من رِقّة

ومن جمالٍ والهوى عِشقا

It crept into what it seized of tenderness

And beauty and passionate love

والله لو أنَّ الذي عندنا

منه بأقوى جبلٍ شقا

By God if what we have of it

Were on the strongest mountain it would crack

قد رقَّ لي الشامت مما يرى

وحسبكم من شامِتٍ رقا

The gloaters softened for me from what they see

And it suffices you from gloaters slight softening

ما إن رأينا في الهوى عاذلا

إلا ولا بُدَّ له يلقى

We did not see anyone blaming love

Except that he inevitably encounters

مثلَ الذي يلقاه ذو لوعةٍ

وهو الذي سُمِّي بالأشقى

Like one who has anguish

Who is called the most miserable

كما الذي قد اتقى نفسه

وربُّه سماه بالأتقى

As one who protected himself

And his Lord named him the most pious

فاشربه مرَّا ولذيذاً فما

بكاسٍ غير الحبِّ ما تسقى

So drink it bitter and sweet and nothing

But love you will be quenched with a cup

ألا ترى موسى وما موله

أعطاه ما أمل والصّعقا

Don’t you see Moses and his encounter

He gave him what he hoped and thunder

فكان موسى صادقاً في الذي

قد جاء يبغيه به صِدقا

So Moses was truthful in what

Came seeking it from him in truth

فعندما رُدَّ إلى حسه

تابَ ووفى العهدَ واستبقى

When he regained his consciousness

He repented and fulfilled the covenant and endured

وكلما كانَ له بعد ذا

مما رأى من ربه وفقا

And everything he had after that

From his Lord suitably

أثمر فيه ذاك من ربه

في ليلة الإسرا بنا رفقا

That yielded for him from his Lord

During the night of ascension gently

وعاين الروحَ وقد جاءه

إذ سدَّ بالأجنحة الأفقا

And saw the Spirit coming to him

As it blocked the horizon with wings

يخبره أن السماءَ التي

ترى وأرضا كانتا رتقا

Telling him that the sky

You see and earth were seamless

فحكمُ الفصلِ بها والقضا

فصيراها حكمة فتقا

So the decree of judgment made them

Into wisdom articulately

لا يشربُ الخالص عبد هنا

من كلِّ ما يشرب إذ يُسقى

No servant drinks the pure here

Of everything he drinks when quenched

من كان أمشاجاً من أخلاطه

فكيف لا يشربه ريقا

One who is temperaments of his mixtures

How can he not drink it moistly?

مَن يبتغي العصمةَ في حالة

دائمة يستلزم الصدقا

Whoever seeks infallibility in a state

Constantly necessitates truthfulness

والصدقُ لا شكَّ على ما ترى

أنزله الله لنا رِزقا

And truthfulness undoubtedly as you see

God revealed to us as sustenance

فيأخذ العبد على قدره

منه كمثل الرزق لا فرقا

So the servant takes of it according to his measure

Like sustenance without difference

ما أن رأينا في الهوى حاكما

أبقى ولا أتقى ولا أنقى

We did not see anyone judging love

Remaining, or more pious, or purer

مثل الذي يعرف مقداره

فإنه قد حازه سَبْقا

Like one who knows his measure

For he attained it with excellence

العلمُ يستعمل أصحابه

لا بد منه فالزمِ الحقا

Knowledge makes its people use it

It is inevitable so hold to the truth

فإنّ قوماً لم يقولوا بذا

لجهلهم بالعلمِ أو فسقا

For some people did not say this

Out of ignorance of knowledge or sin