اللَهُ مَولى دَنانيرٍ وَمَولائي

بِعَينِهِ مَصبَحي فيها وَمَمسائي

God is the Master of my dinars and my Master

God is the Master of Dananeer, and my Master too,

With His eyes my morning in which I rise and my evening

Under His watchful eye are my mornings and evenings spent in her thrall.

صَليتُ مِن حُبِّها نارَينِ واحِدَةً

بَينَ الضُلوعِ وَأُخرى بَينَ أَحشائي

I suffered from love of Her two fires, one

I have burned with two fires from her love: one

Between my ribs and another between my intestines

Raging between my ribs, and another deep within my vitals.

وَقَد حَمَيتُ لِساني أَن أُبينَ بِهِ

فَما يُعَبِّرُ عَنّي غَيرُ إيمائي

And I've burnt my tongue from explaining with it

I have guarded my tongue from revealing a single word,

So nothing expresses me but my gestures

So that nothing speaks for me now except my silent signs.

يا وَيحَ أَهلِيَ أَبلى بَينَ أَعيُنِهِم

عَلى الفِراشِ وَما يَدرونَ ما دائي

Oh woe to my family! I've wasted away before their eyes

Alas for my kin! I waste away before their very eyes,

On the mattress and they don't know what my illness is

Upon my bed, while they know not what my ailment is.

لَو كانَ زُهدُكِ في الدُنيا كَزُهدُكِ في

وَصلي مَشَيتِ بِلا شَكٍّ عَلى الماءِ

If your asceticism in the world were like your asceticism in

If your renunciation of the world matched your renunciation of

Uniting with me I would undoubtedly walk on water

My embrace, you would surely walk upon the water.