وَبِنَفسي مَن لا أُسَمّيهِ إِلّا

بَعضَ إِلمامَةٍ وَبَعضَ إِشارَه

With my soul, whom I name naught but

A part of a turban and part of a gesture

هُوَ وَالظَبيُ في الجَمالِ سَواءٌ

ما اِستَعارَ الغَزالُ مِنهُ اِستَعارَه

He and the gazelle are equal in beauty

What the gazelle borrowed of him were borrowings

أَغيَدٌ يُمسِكُ الحَريرَ بِفِيهِ

مِثلَما يُمسِكُ الغَزالُ العَرارَه

A bud that holds silk in its mouth

As the gazelle holds the meadows

ما بِقَلبي حَوَتهُ مِنهُ ضُلوعي

كَالرَجاءِ اِنطَوى وَفيهِ شَرارَه

My ribs contain not what my heart held of him

Like hope that folded and in it were embers

دارُهُ القَلبُ وَهوَ يَحتَلُّ أُخرى

قَدَّسَ اللَهُ حَيثُما حَلَّ دارَه

His abode is the heart yet he settles another

God sanctified wherever his abode settled