تِهْ غَراماً فللغَرامِ رِجالُ

وابْكِ ما شئتَ يومَ قومُكَ شالُوا

Crave passionately, for passion has men

Weep as much as you want when your people depart

وتمَلْمَلْ يومَ الوَداعِ كئيباً

رُبَّما عهدَهُمْ عَليكَ أطالُوا

Mourn sadly on the day of farewell

Perhaps their covenant with you will be prolonged

وتجرَّدْ عن طَوْرِ كونِكَ فيهِمْ

إنَّما هذه البَرايا ظِلالُ

Disrobe from your current state among them

These abodes are but shadows

واحْكمِ الوُدَّ بالهُيامِ دَواماً

ما بأَمرِ الهُيامِ قيلٌ وقَالُ

Rule love with yearning always

With the matter of yearning, there is no saying and talking

طهِّرِ القلبَ إنْ أَردْتَ هَواهُمْ

رُبَّ قولٍ ترُدُّهُ الأَفعَالُ

Purify your heart if you want their love

Many a saying is repelled by deeds

لا تكنْ في الغَرامِ رَبَّ لِسانٍ

دونَ قلبٍ فللهَوى أهْوَالُ

In passion, be not most of tongue

Without heart, for love has calamities

كم أُناسٍ طَغى الغَرامُ عليهِمْ

ورَماهُمْ فزُحْزِحوا إذْ قالوا

How many people passion overwhelmed

And cast them, so they stumbled when they spoke

اكْتِمِ السِّرَّ ما قدرتَ وحاذَرْ

إنْ تكنْ كلَّ حظِّكَ الأَقْوَالُ

Conceal the secret as much as you can and beware

If all your fortune is words

إنَّ في العاشِقينَ منَّا رِجالاً

هُمْ رِجالٌ شَكْلاً ومعنًى جِبَالُ

Among us lovers there are men

Who are men in appearance and meaning are mountains

صارَعَتْهُمْ أَحوالُهُمْ فاسْتَقَرُّوا

بثَباتٍ وزالتِ الأَحْوَالُ

Their circumstances tried them, so they persevered

With steadfastness while circumstances declined

حقِّقِ الذَّوقَ واتبَعِ الإثْرَ واخْلِصْ

وتمكَّنْ فللوَغى أَبْطَالُ

Realize the taste and follow the trace and be sincere

And be enabled, for desire has heroes

عربَدَ القومُ عندَ نهلَةِ كأسٍ

واسْتُميلوا مع الشَّرابِ فمالُوا

The people behaved wildly at the nip of a cup

And were enticed with the drink, so they inclined

وشرِبْنا الكُؤُسَ حتَّى تناهَتْ

وكأنَّ الشَّرابَ ماءٌ زُلالُ

We drank the cups until they were exhausted

As if the drink was clear water

هذه عِتْرَةُ الإِمامِ الرِّفاعِيِّ

وهو مولًى عن النَّبيِّ مِثَالُ

This is the family of Imam Rifa’i

And he is the exemplar deputy of the Prophet

أَسَدُ القومِ فردُهُمْ مُقْتَداهُمْ

سابِقُ العارِفينَ أيَّانَ طالُوا

The lion of the people, their unique guide

The foremost of the gnostics, however long they lasted

ذو البَراهينِ شيخُهُمْ وفَتاهُمْ

مَنْ ببُرْهانِهِ يُحَلُّ العِقَالُ

The possessor of proofs, their shaykh and young man

With whose proof the rational minds are solved

الإِمامُ السَّامي الجَنابِ المُفَدَّى

والَّذي حولَ بابِهِ الآمَالُ

The Sublime Imam of perfect sanctity

Around whose door hopes revolved

علَّمَتْنا أحْوالُهُ سيرَةَ الصِّدْ

قِ عِياناً ونِعْمَتِ الأَحْوَالُ

His circumstances taught us the conduct of truth

Evidently, and the blessing of states

حَيْدَرِيُّ الأَسرارِ سَبَّارُ غايا

تِ المَعالي قَوَّالُها الفَعَّالُ

Haidari, the keeper of secrets, explainer of the

Sublimities of meanings, doer of them

سيِّدُ الأَولِياءِ قُطْبُ رَحاهُمْ

والَّذي سَحَّ من يَدَيهِ النَّوَالُ

The master of saints, axis of their shelter

And who poured from his hand the attainment

كم أفاضَ الرَّحمنُ فيه شُؤناً

ضُرِبَتْ في أَخْبارِها الأَمْثَالُ

How much did the Merciful effuse in him of conditions

In whose reports examples were struck

عرَّفَتْنا أَخلاقُهُ سيرَةَ الشَّا

رِعِ ذَوْقاً يا نِعْمَ تلكَ الخِصَالُ

His morals made known to us the conduct of the law

In taste, O excellent are those attributes

إنَّ أهلَ القُلُوبِ في كلِّ فجٍّ

هُمْ عَلَيْهِ حتَّى القِيامَ عِيَالُ

The people of hearts in every lowland

Are his dependents until the arising