1. يا أيها المشغوفُ بالذكر

    في حالة الإشفاعِ والوترِ

    O you enamored of remembrance,

    in the state of evenness and oddness,

  2. إن ضاق ظرفُ الدهرِ عن عينكم

    فلم يضقْ عن عينكم صدري

    if time's vessel was too narrow for Your essence,

    yet my breast was not too narrow for Your essence.

  3. ما أوسع القلبَ إذ آمنت

    جوارحي بكلِّ ما يجري

    How spacious the heart, since they have believed—

    my limbs—in all that comes to pass!

  4. لم أدرِ أنَّ للقلبَ ظرف لكم

    لولا الذي أخبرني سِرَّي

    I would not have known the heart had room for You,

    but for the One who told me my secret,

  5. عند تجليه لنا طالباً

    في ليلة يعطى إلى الفجرِ

    when He manifested Himself to us, seeking,

    on a night of giving until dawn.

  6. أنت الذي أخبرتني بالذي

    فهمت به في السِّرِّوالجهر

    You are the One who told me of that

    through which I understood, in secret and openly,

  7. على لسانِ السَّيِّد المصطفى

    الطيِّب الأسلافِ من فِهر

    through the tongue of the Master, the Chosen One,

    pure in ancestry, descended from Fihr.

  8. ما جئتكم بالأمر من خارج

    بل جئتكم بالأمرِ من بحرِ

    I did not bring you the matter from without;

    rather, I brought you the matter from a sea:

  9. تلتطمُ الأمواج فيه كماً

    تأتي به الأنفاس في الذكر

    the waves clash within it as

    the breaths bring it forth in remembrance.

  10. فإن ذكرتم فاذكروه بما

    تلاه في القرآنِ ذي الذكر

    So if you remember, remember Him with what

    He recited in the Qur'an, endowed with remembrance.

  11. لا تذكروه بالذي تنظروا

    فالفرعُ يُعطي قوّةَ النجر

    Do not remember Him through what you perceive,

    for the branch yields the strength of its stock.

  12. ذكرته يوماً على غَفَلةٍ

    بغير ما قلبٍ من الأمر

    I remembered Him one day in heedlessness,

    with no heart engaged in the matter.

  13. فلم أجدْ عند مذاقِ الجنى

    طعمَ الذي أعلم بالخبر

    So, on tasting the fruit, I did not find

    the taste of what I know through the report.

  14. وجدته كالمنِّ في طعمه

    والفارقِ الواضحِ بالسُّكر

    I found it like manna in its taste,

    and the clear difference lay in intoxication.

  15. بالصحو يأتي ذكره دائماً

    والقبضُ والبرد مع الوفر

    His remembrance always comes with sobriety,

    and contraction and cold, along with abundance.

  16. والذكر من عندي على ضِدِّه

    يأتيك بالسكر وبالحرِّ

    And remembrance from me is its opposite:

    it comes to you with intoxication and heat.

  17. فذكره ما بين أذكارنا

    بين الليالي ليلةَ القدر

    So His remembrance among our remembrances

    is like the Night of Decree among nights.

  18. سبحانَ من صيَّرني عالماً

    من بعد ما قد كنتُ كالغمر

    Glory be to the One who made me a knower,

    after I had been like a novice.