1. لك في قلبي دارٌ وعليك القلب دائر

    وعلى مرآك داروا في الحمى أهل الدوائر

    You have a dwelling in my heart, and my heart revolves around you.

    And at the sight of you, the people of the circles revolved within the sanctuary.

  2. عجباً كيف أشاروا لك أصحاب الأشائر

    مع أنّ الكلّ حاروا أنت في غيبك حاضر

    How wondrous! How did the masters of allusions point to you?

    Though all were bewildered, you are present in your hiddenness.

  3. يا جميلاً قد تجلّى بتناويع المجالي

    وبعقدٍ قد تحلّى من جلالٍ وجمال

    O Beautiful One, who has revealed himself through diverse manifestations,

    And adorned himself with a necklace of majesty and beauty.

  4. واجبٌ بالذّات جلَّ عن إضافات المحال

    قادرٌ ولك اقتدارٌ في تصاريف المقادر

    Necessarily existent in essence, exalted beyond attributions of the impossible.

    Powerful are you, and yours is power over the workings of destiny.

  5. باطنٌ أنت وظاهر في ظهورٍ وبطون

    أوّل أنت وآخر في على دور الشؤون

    Hidden are you and manifest, in manifestation and concealment.

    You are first and last in the heights of the cycle of affairs.

  6. ظهرت فيك المظاهر تتراءى للعيون

    لك منك الكلّ صاروا مثلاً في الكون سائر

    The manifestations appeared in you, showing themselves to the eyes.

    For you, from you, all have become a likeness moving through the universe.

  7. حسنك الواحد شمس لاح في جمع تعدّد

    لسناه نحن كأس نجتلي معنىً توحّد

    Your undivided beauty is a sun that shone in the union of multiplicity.

    We are a cup for its radiance, beholding a meaning that has become one.

  8. ولنا بالفرق أنس ولجمع الغيب نشهد

    وانجلى عنّا الستار فانجلت عنّا المظاهر

    And we find intimacy in differentiation, and bear witness to the union of the unseen.

    And the veil lifted from us, so the manifestations fell away from us.

  9. فلذا همنا بسلمى وبليلى وبهندِ

    ورباب وبأسما وبحسنا وبدعدِ

    Thus we were mad with love for Salma, Layla, and Hind,

    And for Rabab, Asma, Hasna, and Da'd.

  10. كلّها معنى لأسما بصفات الحسن تبدي

    هي للوجه خمارٌ وعلى السرّ ستائر

    All of them reveal a meaning of names through the attributes of beauty.

    They are a veil for the face, and curtains over the secret.

  11. وسنا هذا التجلّي نور فيض الحقّ طه

    من عليه المتجلّي صلّى في القرب شفاها

    And the radiance of this manifestation is Taha, the light of the Real's outpouring.

    Upon whom the Self-Revealing One bestowed blessings by word of mouth in nearness.

  12. هام في مجلاه كلّي وبشوقي صحت آها

    وبقلبي منه نارٌ وهو جنّات السرائر

    My whole being was enraptured in his manifestation, and in my longing I cried, 'Ah!'

    And in my heart is a fire from him, while he is the gardens of inmost secrets.