ما لي إلى وصل الحبيب سبيل

وسواه ما لي في الملاح بديل

I have no way to reach my beloved,

And I have no alternative to him in my aspirations.

لم اسع في طلب الوصال الازلي

حظاً على عدم الوصال دليل

I did not hear in seeking the eternal union

Any evidence for the lack of union.

فقد الوصال فقد قنعت بهمةٍ

فكأنما هو للوصال كفيل

So I lost union, and I was content with ambition,

As if it were guarantor of union.

ما صاب راي في اصابه مقصدي

رأى الأمور من العليل عليل

What my opinion hits in its goals,

Is seen by the sick as sick.

قلبي بتفريط المنوى منكسر

جسمي بافراط السقام نحيل

My heart is broken by excessive passion,

My body is thin from excessive illness.

في كل من كسب الهوى كثر البلاء

فقليل هذا لابتلاء قليل

For everyone who gains love, troubles abound,

So this little test is little.

يا من عنا ممن عشقنا منعنا

ما في مشاكل امرنا التسهيل

O you who prevented us from those we loved,

There is no ease in our tangled affair.

لا تحسبن بلاء مضطرب الهوى

مما له التغيير والتبديل

Do not think the disturbed lover

Is prone to change or replacement.

أحببت بدراً حسنه متفرد

وسواه من اجماله التفصيل

I loved a full moon, his beauty unmatched,

And the details apart from his beauty are nil.

بدر علا شرفا وطاب به اليها

وبحسن نسبته جمال جميل

The full moon rose up honored, and thereby prospered,

And the beauty of his lineage is perfect beauty.

نجم سما عزا ومصحف قدره

ما ليس من اياته التنزيل

A star of heaven's honor and scripture of his fate,

None of his signs are revelation.

فعلى جميع ذوى البهى لجماله

الاعلاء والترجيح والتفضيل

So upon all with splendor, for his beauty,

Is sublimity, preference, and distinction.

حتم على النظار عند لقائه

التسبيح والتكبير والتلهيل

It is incumbent upon spectators, when they see him,

To glorify, proclaim greatness, and extol.

فرض على الأرواح اجلاله

التعظيم والتكريم والتبجيل

His majesty obligated souls

To revere, honor, and exalt him.

ختم الكلام بان خط عذاره

صحف ونور جماله جبريل

The discourse is concluded that his brows' line

Is tablets and the light of his beauty is Gabriel.

حكم الخيال بان ورد خدوده

نار وان الخال فيه خليل

The imagination rules that his cheeks' roses

Are fire, and that the moles on him are Abraham.

ما قده الا قضيبٌ قدره

ثوب على قدٍ سواه طويل

He is only a rod whose worth

Is a garment over a stature above all else.

مالت ملاحة الى بيع البها

بسطت بساطا ماله التعزيل

The aspiration inclined to sell infatuation,

Spreading out a carpet with no unfurling.

اغلا النفاق على سلعة وصله

من كل طايفة اتاه عميل

Hypocrisy is most expensive for his union wares,

To him came buyers from every faction.

قلبي بنقد الروح عامل حبه

فالبيع ذلك ليس منه مقيل

My heart works his love with the soul's cash,

So for that sale there is no avoidance.

بالوعد قد باع الوفا غبن الحشا

لوفايه لا ينفع التعجيل

With promises he sold loyalty, swindling yearning,

Its loyalty will not benefit from hastening.

قد كان مختفياً جمال كماله

منى بد الظهوره التعليل

His perfect beauty was hidden from me,

Its disclosure necessitated evidence.

لما عشقت جماله كل الورى

متبتعا عادت اليه تبيل

When I loved his beauty all of existence

Returned to him gradually bought.

شاعت مناقبه وعم هواؤه

ما لعشق الا ما به التكميل

His virtues spread and his passion encompassed,

For love is only what completes it.

ا من تمكن حبه في مهجتي

بتمكن ما شانه التعديل

O you who made your love firm in my mind,

With firmness not amenable to change.

قد اثر الوفا بعد الفنا

مذ شاع اني في هواك قتيل

You preferred loyalty after annihilation,

Since it spread that I am killed by your love.

بين العوالم نسبتي بك رفعة

عزى وقدري في هواك جليل

Through the worlds my lineage to you is honor,

And my worth in your love is momentous.

امري اليك مفوض ومتيمم

طوعاً كانك للقضاء وكيل

My matter is entrusted and devoted to you,

Obediently as if you are the authority.

فانظر الى فقر الفضولي انه

عبد ضعيف عاجز وذليل

So look upon the poverty of the needy one, he

Is a weak, inept, and humble slave.

دم سالما لازلت يا زين الورى

ما دام في افق السما اكليل

Hello, as long as the crown is on the horizon of the sky,

As long as the blood of Salma flows.