For an entire lifetime
I have been continuously absorbed by You,
adapting to the good and the evil
of the people of this world, for Your sake.
The epiphany of Your beauty
has never changed,
and I, too, am the same lover
who lost his heart to You.
I am but the dust
that settles in Your quarters;
I am the wax
that has melted in Your hand.
In Your district I sought refuge
from attention to anything other than You;
I flew away from myself
towards You.
I have closed my heart’s eyes
to both worlds
ever since I first looked
upon Your lovely face.
It has been said we must know ourselves
to know You —
I have known no one
other than You.
You have been occupied much
with Nurbakhsh,
and I, too, have been absorbed by You
for an entire lifetime.