Translation:

Give me an excess of love for you and wonder

And have mercy on a heart scorched by a glance of your love

And if I ask to see you truly

Then allow me, graciously

And let not your answer be, “Thou shalt not see“

O heart, you have promised me to be patient in loving them

So be sure to bear it do not dismay

Passion is life, so die in it lovingly.

 Your duty is to die and be absolved

 My heart, say to those ahead of me, and those behind me,

Whoever has seen the sacrifice of my sorrow

“Follow my example and listen to me

And tell the tale of my love amongst mankind “

I was alone with the Beloved and between us there was

A secret more subtle than the dawn breeze when it blows

And he allowed my eyes a glance

So I became famous, having been unknown before

I was awestruck between his beauty and majesty

And tomorrow, the tongue of my state will explain

Turn your gaze to the beauties of his face,

Where all beauty has been gathered

If all beauty were perfected into one form

on seeing him, it would exclaim [in wonder],

“There is no god but God, and God is greater.”

 

 

Original:

زِدْني بفَرْطِ الحُبّ فيك تَحَيّرا          وارْحَمْ حشىً بلَظَى هواكَ تسعّرا

وإذا سألُتكَ أن أراكَ حقيقةً          فاسمَحْ ولا تجعلْ جوابي لن تَرى

يا قلبُ أنتَ وعدَتني في حُبّهمْ          صَبراً فحاذرْ أن تَضِيقَ وتَضجرا

إنَّ الغرامَ هوَ الحياةُ فمُتْ بِهِ             صَبّاً فحقّك أن تَموتَ وتُعذرا

قُل لِلّذِينَ تقدَّموا قَبلي ومَن        بَعدي ومَن أضحى لأشجاني يَرَى

عني خذوا وبي اقْتدوا وليَ اسمعوا             وتحدّثوا بصَبابتي بَينَ الوَرى

ولقد خَلَوْتُ مع الحَبيب وبَيْنَنَا              سِرٌّ أرَقّ منَ النسيمِ إذا سرى

وأباحَ طَرْفِي نَظْرْةً أمّلْتُها               فَغَدَوْتُ معروفاً وكُنْتُ مُنَكَّرا

فَدُهِشْتُ بينَ جمالِهِ وجَلالِهِ             وغدا لسانُ الحال عنّي مُخْبِرا

فأَدِرْ لِحَاظَكَ في محاسنِ وجْهه            تَلْقَى جميعَ الحُسْنِ فيه مُصَوَّرا

لو أنّ كُلّ الحُسْنِ يكمُلُ صُورةً                    ورآهُ كان مُهَلِّلاً ومُكَبِّر