A biḥubbi aḥbābī ulām

أَبِحُبِّ أَحْبَابِي أُلَام
لَا وَالَّذِي خَلَقَ الْأَنَام
عَيْنَايَ بَعْدَ فِرَاقِهِمْ
مَا ذَاقَتَا طِيبَ الْمَنَام
إِنِّي شُغِفْتُ بِحُبِّهِمْ
مِنْ قَبْلِ نُطْقِيَ بِالْكَلَام
وَأَنَا رَضِيعُ خِصَالِهِمْ
وَالطِّفْلُ يُؤْلِمُهُ الْفِطَام
عَنْ حُبِّهِمْ لَا أَنْتَهِي
وَسِوَاهُمْ لَا أَشْتَهِي
بِاللَّهِ رُحْ يَا مُلْتَهِي
بِالْعَدْلِ أَكْثَرْتُ الْكَلَام
يَا سَاكِنِينَ الْمُنْحَنَى
ظَهْرِي مِنَ الشَّوْقِ انْحَنَى
هَلَّا مَنَنْتُمْ بِالْمُنَى
يَوْمًا لِمَأْسُورِ الْغَرَام
يَا وَاقِفِينَ عَلَى الصَّفَا
مُنُّوا بِحَقِّ الْمُصْطَفَى
قَلْبِي بِكُمْ نَالَ الصَّفَا
لِلصَّبِّ فِي دَارِ السَّلَامِ

a biḥubbi aḥbābī ulām
lā walladhī khalaqa al-anām
ʿaynāya baʿda firāqihim
mā dhāqatā ṭība al-manām
innī shughiftu biḥubbihim
min qabli nuṭqīya bil-kalām
wa anā raḍīʿu khiṣālihim
waṭ-ṭiflu yuʾlimuhu al-fiṭām
ʿan ḥubbihim lā antahī
wa siwāhum lā ashtahī
billāhi ruḥ yā multahī
bil-ʿadli akthartu al-kalām
yā sākinīna al-munḥanā
ẓahrī mina ash-shawqi inḥanā
hallā manantum bil-munā
yawman limaʾsūri al-gharām
yā wāqifīna ʿalā aṣ-ṣafā
munnū biḥaqqi al-Muṣṭafā
qalbī bikum nāla aṣ-ṣafā
liṣ-ṣabbi fī dāri as-salāmi

Am I to be blamed for loving those I love?
No, by the One who fashioned humankind.
My eyes, since parting from them,
Have never tasted the sweetness of restful sleep.

My heart was captivated by their love
Before my tongue had learned to speak.
I was nourished upon their noble traits
And the child is pained when he is weaned.

From loving them I cannot desist
And none but they do I desire.
By God, depart, O you distracted one
With fairness I have spoken too much.

O you who dwell in the valley’s bend
My back has bent from longing for you.
Will you not grant the seeker’s wish
just once, to the one imprisoned by passion?

O you standing upon al-Safa

Grant by the right of al-Mustafa
Through you my heart attained its purity.
To the longing one in the Abode of Peace.