الجنُّ قد طَرَقت بأَعيُنِها

مَنْ قَد أُصِيبَ بِعَينهِ الإِنسُ

The jinn have knocked with their eyes,

Whoever was struck by the human's eye.

لمَّا تعثَّر بالعيون هَوَى

فتعثَّرت في جِسْمِيَ النَّفسُ

When he stumbled into eyes, he fell,

And so did my soul stumble in my body.

وانشق منه جَبِينُه فجرت

مِنْه الدِّماءُ كأَنَّه الوَرْسُ

His forehead cracked open and flowed

Blood from it as if it were the warp.

قلبي وشَجَّته بِجَبْهَتهِ

هذا يرقُّ وهذه تقْسُو

My heart cracked it with his forehead,

This one softens and that one hardens.

فليؤمِن العُشَّاق بي فَلَقَدْ

كُشِفَ الغِطَاءُ وكُشِفَ اللبس

So let lovers believe in me, for indeed

The cover has been removed and confusion dispelled.

إِن كان لم يشَقَّ لي قمرٌ

فأَنا الَّذي انْشَقَّت لَهُ الشَّمسُ

If the moon did not split for me,

Then I am the one for whom the sun split.