أيُّ عينٍ رأتْ حَبيبي ونامتْ

وعن الكونِ كُلِّهِ ما تعامتْ

What eye has seen my love and then slept,

And from the whole universe withdrawn and kept aloof?

أيُّ خلْصاءِ مُهجةٍ عشِقَتهُ

وبِسلسالِ خَمرهِ ما هامَتْ

What chaste and passionate one has loved him

And not become intoxicated by his wine of love?

هي أشواقُهُ التي أقلَقتْني

واستمرَّتْ مع الفؤادِ ودامَتْ

It is his passions that have disturbed me

And remained with my heart and endured.

أنكرتْ حالي العواذِلُ طَيْشاً

وتَمادتْ للجهْلِ فيه ولامتْ

The maidens denied my condition madly

And blamed me in ignorance and reproached me.

وتَراني لربِّيَ الحمْدُ نفْسي

عن صُنوفِ الوُجودِ للحِبِّ صامتْ

Yet thanks to my Lord, myself I do restrain

From all existence, in love silent and abstain.

لم أُبارحْ أعتابَهُ طرْفةَ العيْ

نِ ولو أنَّها القِيامةُ قامتْ

I have not ceased to attend his gates a single wink

Even if the resurrection itself should come.