مَوْلاَيَ ثَانِيةٌ مِنْ لَيْلِكَ انْصَرَمَتْ

وَجَمْرَةَ الشَوْقِ مِنْ بَعْدِ الْوُقُوفِ رَمَتْ

My Master, another night of yours has passed

And the embers of yearning after standing have died down

كَأَنَّهَا دُرَّةٌ فِي الْكَفِّ قّدْ سّقّطّتْ

مِنْ سِلْكِهَا وَهَوَتْ مَنْ بَعْدِ مَا انْتَظَمَتْ

As if it were a pearl in the palm that had slipped

From its thread and fallen after it had been strung

شَأْنُ الزَّمَانِ افْتِرَاقٌ بَعْدَ مُجْتَمَعٍ

وَأَحْرُفٌ مُحِيَتْ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا رُسِمَتْ

The way of time is separation after gathering

And letters erased after they had been drawn

فَمَنْ يَكُنْ قَامَ بِالْبَاقِي وَحُدَّ لَهُ

قَيْدُ الزَّمَانِ تَرَقَّتْ نَفْسُهُ وَسَمَتْ

So whoever stood with the Everlasting and made Him

His guide, the shackles of time fell away from his soul and it transcended

إِنْ تَنْصَرِفْ نَحْوَ عَيْنِ الْجَمْعِ مَا انْفَرَقَتْ

أَوْ تَتَّصِفْ بِوُجُودِ الْحَقِّ مَا انْعَدَمَتْ

If you turn towards the eye of the group it would not separate

Or if you characterize yourself with the existence of Truth it would not cease to be

فَلِلشَّرِيعةِ مِنْهَا الْعِلْمُ إِنْ سئلت

عما به عملت فيما به علمت

For the Sacred Law from it is knowledge, if asked

About what it did regarding what it knew

ولِلْحَقِيقَةِ مِنْهَا السِّرُّ إِنْ نَظَرَتْ

بَدَا لَهَا الشَّفْعُ وِتْراً عِنْدَمَا حَكَمَتْ

And for Reality from it is mystery, if glanced at

Duality appeared to it as even when it decreed oneness

هَذَا الْكَمَالُ فَإِنْ تُلْمِمْ بِسَاحَتِهِ

وَسَلَّمَ اللهُ مِنْ غَوْلِ السُّرَى سَلِمَتْ

This perfection, so if you seek its plain

And God protects from the injustice of suspicions, you are safe

يَامَنْ بِهِ اتَّصَلَ المُستَمْسِكُونَ بِهِ

رُحْمَاكَ فِي أَنْفُسٍ عَنْ جَمْعِهَا قُسِمَتْ

O You through whom the adherents are connected to Him

Your mercy upon selves divided from their whole

إِنْ لَمْ تَجُدْكَ وَلَمْ تَحْرِمْكَ فِي نَفَسٍ

وَاللهِ مَا وَجَدَتْ شَيْئَاً وَلاَ حَرَمَتْ

If you do not find You and are not deprived of You within a soul

By God it found nothing and deprived nothing