وأعلم حقا أن بعدي عنكم

لذنب جرى لكنني تبت من كبر

I know for certain that my distance from you

Is due to a sin, though I have repented from arrogance

تجلى لطور القلب فأندك هيبة

وحق الحق حقا بناظر

The glory of the heart's mountain was revealed, so it shook with awe

And the right of the right is the right, truly, to the beholder

تجلى حبيبي للقلوب بعينه

فهيمني غيبا بسطوة قاهر

My beloved revealed himself to hearts through his eyes

So he overwhelmed me, unseen, with his overwhelming power

ومن ذا يطيق الصبر إن هي بدت

على بسط التلوين طورا لظاهر

And who can endure patience if she appears

On the expanse of variations, as a mount to the witness?

تبدت لأكواني بعين جمالها

فلبت وقرت ثم هامت كحائر

She appeared to my innermost being through the eye of her beauty

So I swooned and settled, then wandered lost like one perplexed

وأبصرها لحظي وذلك لحظها

فكنت بها منها سميعا لحاجر

And my gaze saw her, and that was her gaze upon me

So through her I was hearing to the whisperer

تقادمني حب وذلك حبها

فثم أحاط الستر بين المنابر

Love brought me to her, and that was her love to me

So the veil covered between the pulpits

وما ثم غير في الحقيقة ظاهر

لمن دق أو قد ران بين الضمائر

And there is none manifest in reality but the Witness

To whoever knocked or glanced between the consciences

فما ثمّ إلا الوهم وهي حقيقة

وكل وراء فهو شيء كسائر

So there is nothing but illusion, and she is the reality

And all beyond is something like the rest