لعمرك يا أخا الأشواق أنّا

فؤادي من اليم البيت أنّا

My life, O brother of yearning, we are

My heart from the pain of separation, we are

وسهم الحادثات أصاب قلبي

فاثر بالحشاشة حين رنا

And the arrows of events have struck my heart

So it fluttered like a wounded bird when it sang

لحى اللَه الزمان لقد تعدى

علينا بالفراق وقد تجنّى

May God curse time, for it has transgressed

Upon us with separation, and it has picked fruits greedily

وصيرني بعيد الدار عمن

بحبهم أخو الأشواق جنا

And made me far from the home of those

Whom I love, O brother of yearning I moaned

أبيت مسامراً قمر الدياجي

بذكراهم إذا ما الليل جنا

I stay up conversing with the moon of the nights

Remembering them when the night pulls its garment

وانثر أدمعي سحراً إذا ما

سمعت سويجع الأثلات غنّى

And I shed my tears at dawn whenever

I hear the warbling of the bold nightingale

ولي كبدٌ مضرمةٌ بوجدٍ

قبيل البعد كيف إذا افترقنا

And I have a liver burning with passion

Before the separation, so how will it be when we part

وكان لقا الحبيب يزيد شوقاً

لرؤياه فكيف وغاب عنا

And meeting the beloved only increases longing

For seeing him, so how will it be when he is absent from us

تذكرت الديار وساكنيها

فأنت مهجتي والقلب حنا

I remembered the homes and their dwellers

So you are my soul and my heart sighed

وهيجني مغردةً صدوحٌ

على غصن تثنّى ان تثنّى

And a lone nightingale in a vale stirs me

On a bending branch, bending as it bent

تنمح ولم يفارقها حبيبٌ

ولم يك قلبها صباً معنّى

Sobbing and no beloved has left it

And its heart was not filled with meaning

وحقك يا أمين الحب قلبي

من اللذات بعدك ماتها

And you have the right, O the trustee of my heart

Of the pleasures after you I have denied them

وإن يكُ بين جسمينا بعاد

فإن القرب بالأرواح منا

And if there is distance between our bodies

Then nearness is in our souls

عسى من بالفراق قضى علينا

بطيب لقا الأحبة إن يمنا

Perhaps He who has destined separation for us

Will bless us with meeting the loved ones, if He favors us

أتاني منك نظمٌ عقد درّ

ثمين راق ألفاظاً ومعنى

There has come to me from you prose, a necklace

Of precious pearls, eloquent in words and meaning

فأحياني بذكرى خير مولى

بذكر صفاته الغراء همنا

So it gave me life with the memory of the Best Master

With the memory of His excellent attributes, it preoccupied us

فوا شوقي للثم يدي أميرٍ

كريمٍ فاق بالشرفين معنا

So my longing for kissing the hand of the generous prince

Who has surpassed in the two honors, meanings

ونجليه الخليل أبي المعالي

يحاكي البدر إشراقاً وحسنا

And his son Khalil, my Master full of bounty

Resembling the full moon in brilliance and beauty

ومولانا الأمين دعاه أمنٌ

وجاد له الإله بما تمنى

And our Master the Trustee, whom he called Faithful

And God granted him what he wished

أدام اللَه سؤددهم بعزٍّ

وزاد علاهمُ مجداً وأمنا

May God make their sway last with might

And increase their elevation with glory and safety

ومدهم بإقبالٍ وسعدٍ

مدى الأيام ما طيرٌ تغنى

And extend them with favor and happiness

As long as the birds sing