إِلَيكَ أُنسي بِناسي زادِ إيحاشي

وَمِنكَ قُربِيَ عَنّي أَبعَدَ الواشي

To you I confide my people's supplies to enliven me,

And from you my proximity has distanced the slanderer.

وَفيكَ جَمعُ العِدى عَنّي اِنثَوا فِرقاً

لَمّا اِستَجاشوا بِما لاقوهُ مِن جاشي

In you the enemies combine against me dispersing separation,

When they were provoked by what they saw of my fervor.

وَإِذ بِكَ أَضحى اِتِّقائي في لِقائِهِم

لَم أُرمَ مِنهُم بِسَهمٍ غَير طَيّاشِ

And when through you my piety in meeting them became at dawn,

I did not cast at them any arrow but a gentle one.

وَلا وَما مِنكَ لي قَد راحَ نافِلَةً

لَم أَلقَ فيكَ المَنايا غَيرَ بَشّاشِ

And whatever bounty from you has departed to me unsolicited,

I did not meet death in you except with a smiling face.

وَفي اِمتِحانِكَ لي أَخلَصتُ مُتَّبِعاً

أَهلَ اِختِصاصِكَ في نَفسي لِإِنعاشي

And in your testing of me I followed sincerely

The people of your specialization in myself for my invigoration.

مَشوا وَطِرتُ إِلى عَلياكَ مُنفَرِداً

وَأَينَ يَدرِكُ إِثرَ الطائِرِ الماشي

They went while I strode to your loftiness alone,

And where can the walker reach the track of the flying bird?

وَإِذا وَنوا عَنكَ في قَصدٍ بِطَشتُ إِلى

رِضاكَ إِذا لَم يَنَلهُ غَيرُ بِطّاشِ

And if they swerved from you with intention, I hastened

To your satisfaction, if none shall attain it but the energetic.

وَحاوَلوا بِيَ عَدلاً عَنكَ إِذ عَذَلوا

وَهَل يُميلُ لَبيباً قَولُ أَوباشِ

And they attempted to divert me from you when they were hostile,

But can a rational being be swayed by the words of the foolish?

وَمُستَحيلٌ خَلُوّي مِن هَواكَ وَلَم

يَنفَكُّ في جُملَتي مِن نَشأَتي ناشي

And my being devoid of your love is inconceivable, and has not

Ceased in my constitution since my youth, the forgetful.

وَما نَشَرتُ فَمَطوِيٌّ وَمُظهِرُهُ

فَمُضمِرٌ لا تَراهُ مُقلَةُ العاشي

And I have not disclosed what is folded, and its appearance

Is concealed - the dim-sighted perceives it not.

وَفي الزَوايا خَبايا لَيسَ يُدرِكُها

مِمَّن تَعاطى الخَفايا غَيرُ فَتّاشِ

And in the corners are hidden secrets not grasped

By any who has dealt with concealments but the searcher.