عبد الغني الروض الجني

للمجتني مجنى التحف

ʿAbd al-Ghani is the garden of ripe fruit,

A harvest of precious gifts for the gatherer.

من غيره داني القطوف

جنى المن لا يقتطف

From anyone else, the low-hanging fruit—

The harvest of grace—cannot be plucked.

بحرٌ من العلم اللدني

يخرج درر الصدف

A sea of divinely bestowed knowledge,

Bringing forth pearls from their shells.

قد فاض بالفيض السني

وكلّ من ذاق عرف

He has overflowed with radiant grace,

And everyone who has tasted knows.

أضحى لمعراج القلوب

هداه سدرة منتهى

For the hearts' ascent,

His guidance has become the Lote Tree of the Utmost Bound.

عرش الإحاطة في علوم

معارفٍ دون انتها

The throne of all-encompassing mastery in sciences

Of spiritual knowledge without end.

وبحضرة القدس ارتقى

من دون مرقاه السها

And in the Holy Presence he ascended;

Al-Suha lies below the height he reached.

فاقصده يا ذا المعتني

وكلّ من ذاق عرف

So seek him, O attentive one,

And everyone who has tasted knows.

واسمع سماع لحونه

إذ طاب في اللحن الغنا

And hear the music of his melodies,

For singing has grown sweet within the tune.

ويشجو لطف شجونه

فاطرب وطب فلك الهنا

And the tenderness of his sorrows moves the heart;

So be enraptured and glad, for bliss is yours.

عبد الغني بفنونه

قد صار لا عبد الغنا

ʿAbd al-Ghani, through his arts,

Has become no slave to song.

فاشرب به الكأس الهني

وكلّ من ذاق عرف

So drink through him the delightful cup,

And everyone who has tasted knows.

صوت المثاني يعلو في

توحيده السبع الطباق

The sound of the paired strings soars, in

His affirmation of Oneness, above the seven layered heavens.

وبنغمة السرّ الخفي

يأتي الحجاز من العراق

And with the melody of the hidden secret,

Hijaz comes forth from Iraq.

وبنفخة الناي الصفي

صفا لنا كأس المذاق

And with a breath of the pure reed flute,

The cup of tasting grew clear for us.

وله النيابة عن كنِ

وكلّ من ذاق عرف

And he acts as deputy for “Be!”;

And everyone who has tasted knows.