يا قَلبُ وَيحَكَ جِدٌّ مِنكَ ذا الكَلَفُ

وَمَن كَلِفتُ بِهِ جافٍ كَما تَصِفُ

Oh my heart, what effort from you, with such burdens

O heart, woe to you, is this passion of yours truly earnest?

And those I burdened are harsh as you describe

While the one I dote upon is harsh, just as you describe.

وَكانَ في الحَقِّ أَن يَهواكَ مُجتَهِداً

كَذاكَ خَبَّرَ مِنّا الغابِرُ السَلَفُ

And it would be right for him to love you with dedication

By right, he ought to have loved you with diligence,

That is how the predecessors informed us from the past

For so have our ancestors of the past informed us.

قُل لِلمَليحِ أَما تَروي الحَديثَ بِما

خالَفتَ فيهِ وَقَد جاءَت بِهِ الصُحُفُ

Say to the beautiful one, will you not recount the narrative with what

Say to that beautiful one: Do you not narrate the Tradition regarding that

You differed in, and it has come in the scriptures

Which you have contradicted, though the scriptures have cited it?

إِنَّ القُلوبَ لَأَجنادٌ مُجَنَّدَةٌ

لِلَّهِ في الأَرضِ بِالأَهواءِ تَختَلِفُ

Indeed hearts are regiments, regimented

"Verily, hearts are conscripted soldiers,

For God on earth, differing in passions

Belonging to God upon the earth, differing in their desires;

فَما تَعارَفَ مِنها فَهوَ مُؤتَلِفٌ

وَما تَناكَرَ مِنها فَهوَ مُختَلِفُ

That which agrees between them unites them

Those among them that recognize one another are united,

And that which disputes between them divides them

And those among them that do not know one another are at variance."