قلبي منكم خائفٌ خافقُ

ودمعُ عيني سائلٌ دافقُ

My heart, because of you, is fearful and throbbing;

And the tears of my eyes flow forth in torrents.

أموتُ إذ تحكى أحاديثكم

شوقاً لأَني عاشقٌ صادقُ

I die whenever tales of you are told,

From longing—for I am a sincere lover.

ومن نواحيكم ونوحي لكم

أحيا متى ما لألأَ البارقُ

From your quarter—and in my lament for you—

I come alive whenever the lightning flashes.

يطرقُ قلبي خوف هجرانكم

وربَّ وقتٍ أزعج الطارقُ

My heart is visited by fear of your abandonment,

And many a time the night-visitor has startled it.

كلي لمجلي برقكم ناظرٌ

ولمعاني ذكركم ناطقُ

All of me gazes toward the splendor of your lightning,

And speaks the meanings of your remembrance.

ولم تزل تشرقُ بي شمسكم

ما ذرَّ مني أبداً شارقُ

Your sun has never ceased to shine through me,

Whenever a radiant dawn breaks from within me.

فليس لي سيرٌ إلى غيركم

آناً ولا لي عنكم عائقُ

I have no journey toward anyone but you;

I neither turn aside, nor does any barrier keep me from you.

عن أنكر المخلوق وجدي بكم

عن حسدٍ صدَّقهُ الخالقُ

Though creation, out of envy, denies my passion for you,

The Creator has affirmed it.

يا من لكم روحي ومن في خفا

روحي إليكم مجهدٌ سائقُ

O you to whom my soul belongs—and what lies hidden

Within my soul, exhausted, drives me toward you.

أنتم ضياءُ القلبِ في طيِّهِ

إذا دجا من سمكه الغاسقُ

You are the radiance folded within the heart

Whenever the darkening night spreads gloom from its vault.

سابقُ عزمي في هواكم لقد

عزَّ فلا يلحقُهُ لاحقُ

My resolve outstrips all in love of you; indeed,

It has grown too mighty for any pursuer to overtake.

برزتُ من طمس خفائي بكم

ومسك طوري في الورى عابقُ

Through you I emerged from the obliteration of my hiddenness,

And the musk of my spiritual state perfumes the world.

وذقتُ ماء الوصلِ من حانكم

والماءُ يدري بردخُ الذائقُ

I tasted the water of union in your tavern,

And the taster knows water by its coolness.

ذكرتكم ذكر ولوهٍ لكم

هيامه عن طينه سابق

I remember you as one madly enamored of you,

Whose rapture outruns his clay.

مهيَّمٍ في كلِّ جزءٍ له

من جسمه سرٌّ لكم عاشقُ

One enthralled in every part of his being—

In every part of his body, a secret loves you.

قد ذكرتكم باطلاً عُصبةٌ

وإنما باطلهم زاهق

A faction has invoked you falsely,

But their falsehood is doomed to vanish.

في حضرة الذكر وأحوالها

قد يعرفُ الكاذبُ والصادق

In the presence of remembrance and its spiritual states,

The liar and the truthful are known.