1. وليِّيَ في الدنيا وفي الأخرى تولني

    بما تتولى الصالحين وثبت

    My Protector in this world and the next, take me into Your care

    as You care for the righteous, and make me steadfast.

  2. تولى ولي المؤمنين استقامتي

    ونصري وحقق يا ولي محبتي

    Take charge, Protector of the believers, of my uprightness

    and my victory; make my love true, O Protector.

  3. تول ولائي في ثبوت ولايتي

    بنقطة باء لا بساذج نقطتي

    Guard my allegiance, keeping my bond with You steadfast,

    through the dot of bāʾ, not through my dot’s bare simplicity.

  4. تول عروجي من أفاحيص مركزي

    إليك بلطف منك لا بكيفتي

    Guide my ascent from the nesting hollows of my station

    to You through grace from You, not through my own manner of being.

  5. تول وليتي باسمك اسمي مرقياً

    صفاتي الدنايا بالصفات العلية

    Guard my spiritual bond and my name through Your Name, elevating

    my lowly attributes through the exalted attributes.

  6. تول ولائي من توليته اهتدى

    رمتني حظوظي بين أعماق ضلتي

    Guard my allegiance: whoever You take into Your care is guided.

    My selfish interests have cast me amid the depths of my straying.

  7. تول ولي الحمد شأني بنظرة

    ترافقني ألطافها في طريقتي

    Take charge, Lord of praise, of my affairs with a glance

    whose gentle favors accompany me along my path.

  8. وليي تولتني شئون من الهوى

    تدارك خلاصي من هوى فيه شقوتي

    My Protector, the workings of desire have taken hold of me.

    Hasten my deliverance from a desire in which lies my misery.

  9. تدارك وليي هذه النفس إنها

    بمهما تولاها هواها تولت

    Rescue this soul, my Protector, for it,

    whenever its desire takes charge of it, becomes

  10. ذريعة شيطان لما فيه ويلها

    لها الويل إن أسلمتها من ذريعتي

    an instrument of Satan for what brings it woe.

    Woe to it if You abandon it—who would be my recourse?

  11. ولاؤك سلطاني غلبت به الهوى

    ولاؤك منجاتي ولاؤك عصمتي

    Your guardianship is my might; through it I have overcome desire.

    Your guardianship is my deliverance; Your guardianship is my safeguard.