دع طيش نفسك لا تسمع دعاويها

فالوهم عنوان خافيها وباديها

Ignore your soul's whims, do not listen to its claims

For illusion hides and shows its essence

واطرح هواها ولا تقبل سفاسفها

فالغي يطرحها والزور يمليها

Cast off its passions, do not accept its trifles

Nonsense discards them, lies dictate them

تروح تفعل في طي الخيال على

زعمٍ وخمرا حان الكذب يسقيها

It goes and acts in the folds of imagination

Supposedly, and the lies of intoxication give it to drink

خرفاء كم سكرت حتى إذا غلبت

قالت وصالت وراح العجز يصحيها

How many raving drunks has it intoxicated until, overcome

It says it has reached its beloved, and inability sobers it

يا من يوافقها في كل ما طلبت

لو كنت تعرفها حقاً تعاديها

O you who agree with it in all it asks

If you truly knew it, you would oppose it

تمشي بطيش الهوى مفتونةً ولها

من الهوى جيش بهتانس يواليها

It walks in the madness of passion, infatuated

And passion has an army of delusions loyal to it

تروح عمياء في نومٍ بغفلتها

حتى ينبهها بالموت داعيها

It goes blindly in the sleep of its heedlessness

Until its summoner, death, awakens it

هناك تعلم أن الزور ما زعمت

وفي الخلود لقد خابت أمانيها

There it knows that what passion claimed is false

And in eternity, its hopes have certainly failed

فطر بقلبك للرحمن منتبهاً

واجعل لسيرك بالإخلاص تنزيها

So make your heart, vigilant for the Merciful

And make your path sincere in devotion to Him

واقرأن من الذكر آياتٍ مطهرةً

وافهم بذوقك عن صدقٍ معانيها

And recite purified verses from the Remembrance

And taste with your innermost being their truth

واجهد لتلحق ركبان الرجال إذا

ما سار في شطحات الليل ساريها

And strive to join the caravan of men, when

It sets out by night, wandering in yearning for Him

واعمل بسر كلام المصطفى فيه

أخبار حقٍّ عن الجبار يرويها

And act according to the core of the Chosen One's speech

In which he relates the news of truth about the Majestic

وخذ عن القوم سادات الحمى جملاً

من الحقائق قد رقت حواشيها

And take from the leaders, lords of longing, some

Sublime truths, their margins refined

قد أودعوها رعاهم ربهم حكماً

قلوبهم عن رسول اللَه تمليها

They entrusted them as wisdom to the hearts

Of their followers, from God's Messenger they took them

فرمشةٌ إذ بذكر اللَه تقطعها

خلصاء خيرٌ من الدنيا وما فيها

So a blinking of the eye, cut short by God's remembrance

Is better than the world and all that is in it