Allah Allah Allah Allah yâ mawlânâ
Lâ ilâha illa Allah Allah yâ mawlânâ
Ahibbatî in kuntum ‘alâ sidqin min -amrî
Fadhâka nafsu ssabîli sîrû ‘alâ sayrî
Falastu ‘ala chakkin tallâhî wa lâ wahmin
Ana l’ârifu billâh fissirri wal jahri
Suqitu min ka-si lhubbi thumma malaktuhû
Fasâra milkan ladayya fî muddati ddahri
Jâzâ llâhu man jâda ‘alaynâ bisirrihî
Faljûdu fadhâka ljûdu man jâda bissirri
‘Amilnâ ‘alâ katmil lhaqîqati wa sawnihâ
Wa man sâna sirra llâhi akhada bichchukri
Khamratun yahtâju lkullu turrân lichurbihâ
Kamâ yahtâju ssakrânu limazîdi ssukri
Fasirtu lahâ sâqîn wa kuntu ‘âsirahâ
Wa hal lahâ min sâqin siwâya fî dhâ l’asri
Translation:
Friends, if you have understood the truth of my state,
The path is there before you; follow in my steps.
For, by God, these are not doubtful things nor vague products of the imagination:
I know God with a knowledge at once secret and manifest.
I have drunk from the cup of Love and come to possess it,
It has become my own for ever.
May God reward the one who lavished His Secret upon me,
For the generous gift, the true one, is the conferring of the Secret.
For a time I concealed the truth and kept it carefully veiled,
Yet whoever keeps the Secret of God shall have his reward.
When the Giver permitted me to proclaim it,
He made me able – and how, I do not know – to purify souls,
He girded me with the sword of constancy,
Of truth and of piety, and gave me a wine:
Whoever drinks of it can no longer do without drinking it,
Just as a drunken man seeks to become more drunk still.
I have become its cupbearer, more still, it is I who pressed it.
Is there anyone else to pour it, in this time?
If I speak thus, do not be astonished, for our Lord
Himself has said that He chooses as the object of His favour
Whomever He will, and gives without measure.
It is the favour of God; He gives it to whomever He will.
To Him be all praise, glory and thanksgiving!
After Martin Lings’s translation.
