فتشوا قلبي وجيدوا هل سكن فيه

غيركم يا سول قلبي يا مواليه

Search my heart and see: has anyone dwelt within it

But you, O my heart's desire, O its masters?

لا وحسنكم الذي لا شيء يضاهيه

ما سكن أهل المحبة غير أهليه

No, by your beauty, which nothing can rival,

None but its own have dwelt there, O people of love.

ميتكم هل غيركم في الناس يحييه

ليس يدري الحبّ إلا من يعانيه

Your dead one—can anyone among mankind but you revive him?

None knows love except one who suffers it.

قد بذلت الروح فيكم أين شاريه

من طلب غالي سمح فيه يغاليه

I have offered my soul for you—where is its buyer?

Whoever seeks something precious gives freely, paying dearly for it.

رحمة للمستهام مما يقاسيه

من رقيب يمنعه عما يرجيه

Have mercy on the love-stricken one for what he endures

From a watcher who bars him from what he hopes for,

أو عذول في هوى بغيته يؤذيه

في هوى كلي بكلّ الكلّ أفديه

Or a reproacher who hurts him for loving the one he seeks.

For love of my all, I would ransom him with absolutely everything.

حبذا عتبه وما أحلى تجنيه

قد رجوت اللَه لي ما خاب راجيه

How delightful his reproach, and how sweet his unjust treatment!

I have put my hope in God for myself—none who hopes in Him is disappointed—

أن يعجل بالمنى في كل ما أبغيه

ثم صلى اللَه على الهادي وآليه

That He hasten the fulfillment of my wishes in all I seek.

Then may God bless the Guide and his family,

ثم أصحابه وخربه ومواليه

ما سرى ركب إلى يثرب بحاديه

Then his companions, his [unclear term], and his loyal followers,

As long as a caravan travels by night to Yathrib with its chanting camel-driver.