لما منعت القرب من سيدي

ولج في هجري ولم ينصف

When my beloved denied intimacy,

When I was barred from nearness to my master,

And plunged into estrangement unfairly,

And he persisted in forsaking me, showing no fairness,

صرت بابصاري أثوابه

أو بعض ما قد مسه أكتفي

I gazed upon his garments,

I came to find solace merely in gazing at his robes,

Or anything he had touched, I was content.

Content with anything his hand had touched.

كذلك يعقوب نبي الهدى

إذ شفه الحزن على يوسف

So too was Jacob, Prophet of Guidance,

Just so was Jacob, the prophet of guidance,

When grief for Joseph brought him low,

When sorrow over Joseph had consumed him:

شم قميصاً جاء من عنده

وكان مكفوفاً فمنه شفي

He smelled a shirt that came from him,

He breathed the scent of a shirt brought from his presence,

And though blind before, by it he could see.

And though he had been blind, through it he was healed.