1. يا من جمع الحسن جميعا وحوى

    رفقاً بمتيم له فرطُ جوى

    O you who gathered all beauty and encompassed it,

    be gentle with one enslaved by love, whose anguish is extreme.

  2. عشقي لك في الكمال داءٌ ودوا

    بالنور طفى النار وبالنار كوى

    In its perfection, my love for you is sickness and cure.

    With light he quenched the fire, and with fire he seared.

  3. هذا هو باطن وهذا ظاهر

    بالخلق هو اللطيف وهو القاهر

    This is inward, and this is outward.

    Toward creation he is the Gentle One, and he is the Subduer.

  4. فرد أحد له الجمال الباهر

    والناس لكل واحد فيه هوى

    Unique and One, his is dazzling beauty.

    And among people, each one has a passion for him.

  5. منهم من يطلب الشهود الصافي

    والآخر يطلب الرضاب الشافي

    Among them, one seeks pure witnessing.

    And another seeks sweet, healing saliva.

  6. والآخر طالبٌ لحظ وافي

    والآخر غير ذاك في الدين روى

    And another seeks a generous glance.

    And another has related something else in matters of faith.

  7. كاسات رحيقنا علينا دارت

    في كف سقاتنا التي قد جارت

    Cups of our pure wine went round among us,

    in our cupbearers' palm, which had dealt unjustly.

  8. فانظر بالقلب في عقول طارت

    من حيرتها لأجل غيرٍ وسوى

    So look with the heart at minds that have flown away,

    out of their bewilderment over otherness and what is other.

  9. أزكى صلوات ربنا الخلاق

    لا زال مع السلام منه الباقي

    The purest blessings of our Lord, the Creator—

    may they, with enduring peace from him, never cease

  10. يأتي لنبينا وللآفاق

    من عبد غنيْ عبادة منه نوى

    coming to our Prophet and to the horizons,

    from Abd al-Ghani, who intended this as an act of worship.