Allâh x4 Yâ mawlânâ
Allâh x3 Lâ -ilâha -illa Llâh
Tadîqu bina ddunyâ -idha ghibtumu ‘anna
Wa tadhhabu bil -achawaqi -arwahuna minna
Fabu‘ dukumu mawtun wa qurbukumu hayat
Wa -in ja-ana ‘an kum bachiru lliqa ‘ichna
Namûtu bibu‘ dikum wa nahya bi qurbikum
Wa -in ghibtumu ‘anna wa law nafsan mitna
Wa nahya bi dhikrikum -idha lam narâ kumu
-Ala -inna tidhkâra l-ahibbati yun‘ichna
Falawla ma‘anikum taraha qulûbuna
-Idha nahnu -ayqadun wa fi nnawmi -in ghibnâ
La mitna -asan min bu‘dikum wa sababatan
Wa lakinna fi ma‘na ma‘ânikum ma‘nâ
Yuharrikuna dhikru l-ahadîthi ‘ankumu
Wa lawla hawakum fil hachâ mâ taharraknâ
Faqul lilladhi yanha ‘ani lwajdi -ahlahu
-Idha lam taduq ma‘na charâbi lhawâ da‘nâ
-Idha htazzatil -arwahu chawqan -ila lliqa na‘am
Taraqasatil ‘abdanu Yâ jahilal ma‘na
Translation
“The World Grows Narrow”
When you absent yourselves from us, the world grows narrow
And through the ardour of our longings, our Spirits have left us.
Your remoteness is a death, your nearness a life!
And if, for the space of a breath, you absent yourselves from us, we shall die
Through your remoteness we expire and through your Nearness we live.
And if the herald of the Meeting comes to us, we remain!
And if we do not see you, we live by calling you to mind.
Is it not that the remembrance of the beloved revives us!
And if, in waking and in sleep,
Our hearts do not glimpse your spiritual realities,
We shall expire of sorrow and ardent longing.
Most fortunately, the reality in your Reality is a Reality!
The remembrance of you stirs us,
And were your love not within our entrails, we could not move
And say to the one who forbids his own to love:
“If you have not tasted the nectar of love, leave us in peace”
If spirits tremble with longing for the meeting,
Bodies dance, O you who are ignorant of spiritual realities!
