1. إن الذي أكَّدَ وعدي وفاهْ

    وبالمنى خاطب قلبي وفاهْ

    Indeed, he who confirmed my promise fulfilled it.

    And with hopes he addressed my heart and spoke.

  2. طلعته تهتك أستارنا

    وتثبت العين لدينا وفاهْ

    His countenance tears away our veils,

    and the eye confirms his faithfulness to us.

  3. محتجب لكنه ظاهر

    لكل من عنه نفى الإشتباه

    He is veiled, yet manifest

    to everyone who banishes uncertainty about him.

  4. لا كان من ينظر في غيره

    ولا تهنَّى من يلاقي سواه

    May whoever looks to anything other than him cease to be,

    and may whoever meets another know no joy.

  5. تعودت أغياره أمة

    لا تعرف اليقظة والإنتباه

    A people have grown accustomed to things other than him;

    they know neither wakefulness nor awareness.

  6. وكل من قد تاه فيه اهتدى

    له ومن فيه اهتدى عنه تاه

    And everyone who loses his way in him is guided

    to him; and whoever finds his way in him strays from him.

  7. روض جرت أسماؤه جدولاً

    منه فأنواع البرايا مياه

    He is a garden; his names have flowed as a stream

    from him; thus, the kinds of created beings are waters.

  8. فانظر إلى هيكلنا تلقه

    وكل ما شئت ترى في حماه

    Look, then, upon our bodily frame: you will find him,

    and whatever you wish you will see in his sanctuary.

  9. إسكندر العزم من المقتفي

    آثارنا يدرك عين الحياه

    An Alexander in resolve, among those who follow

    our footsteps, reaches the spring of life.

  10. من زال فيه عن سواه التقى

    به ومنه قد أتاه مناه

    Whoever, lost in him, leaves all else behind meets

    with him, and from him receives his heart's desire.

  11. قد سجدت كل البرايا له

    لما تجلى رافلاً في حلاه

    All created beings have prostrated themselves before him

    when he revealed himself, proudly arrayed in his finery.

  12. بالله يا ريح الصبا بلِّغى

    أحبابنا بالجزع وجداً نراه

    By God, O east wind, convey

    to our loved ones at the valley bend the longing we feel.

  13. فإن من زاد به داؤه

    ريح الصبا من نحو سُعدى دواه

    For the one whose sickness has worsened,

    the east wind from Suʿdā's direction is his cure.

  14. فليت طيف الحب لو زارني

    وأسعد المضنى وأهنى حشاه

    If only the beloved's phantom would visit me

    and gladden the love-worn one and soothe his heart.

  15. فإنه كان إلى مثله

    يسري ويحلو لفؤادي سراه

    For he would, toward one like himself,

    travel by night, and sweet to my heart was his passage.

  16. ولكن الألباب محجوبة

    عنه بما تدرك مما تراه

    But minds are veiled

    from him by what they grasp of what they see.

  17. وقد عنت كل قلوب الورى

    له وقد ذلت عليه الجباه

    And all the hearts of humankind have bowed

    to him, and foreheads have been humbled before him.

  18. ومن درى ذاب ومن لا درى

    وكلهم منطرح في حماه

    And whoever knows melts away, and whoever does not know—

    all lie cast down within his sanctuary.