عجَبا لِلمحبِّ يَجنِي ذُنُوبا

مَعَ مَن يرتَضِي لِقلبٍ حَبيبا

How strange for the lover to reap sins

With one who approves a beloved for the heart

يدَّعي بعدما جنَاه غراماً

قبَّج اللهُ ذا الغَرامَ الكَذُوبَا

Claiming after infatuation seized him

May Allah accept this false infatuation

لِي حبيبٌ ويا لَه من حَبيبٍ

كادَ من لُطفِ روحه أن يذُوبا

I have a beloved, what a beloved is he

His gentle soul nearly melted me away

اكتَسى حُلَّةَ الجمَال ولكن

مَع جلالٍ فكان سِراً عَجيبا

He wore the garment of beauty, but

With majesty, so he was a wondrous secret