For the sake of jealousy, Adam learned the names

(He) wove together the comprehensive veil of all the parts

Jealousy was for the sake of the other, and when there was no other

Why did (He) show the duality of that unique One?

The mouth (of the world) is full of the secret of the silent world

What prevents eloquent speakers from measuring words?

(They) closed the path of the mouth with successive kisses

The sugar-lipped ones of truths, the eloquent mouths

Sometimes from the kiss of the beloved, and sometimes from the cup of wine

There is no opportunity for speech, neither for hints nor allusions

How pleasantly they break speech with the wound of a kiss

With sedition, they have closed the path to sedition and tumult

When sedition becomes intoxicated, they suddenly become turbulent

What can restrain the reckless intoxicated one?

When the wave becomes low, the mountains and the sea become (one)

Who fears the water that makes the hard rocks afraid?

When the stone becomes water, and the water becomes stone, then know

The encompassing (power) of the all-powerful, all-seeing King

When war becomes peace, and peace becomes war, then see

The craftsmanship of the hand of that wise Creator

Cover your face, for covering the face is the work of the good

You have found us subdued, subjugated, and tamed

See what opponent you have fallen upon, you, a lion, with a rabbit

Do not completely close the path of consolation

Look at my greed, that I am giving you advice, which do not do

Just as a half-mosquito would give advice to a phoenix

Just as a pale face fights with bile

Just as hashish would block the path of the sea

I was a thunderbolt, O beloved, or a fire

You have not left us a dwelling or a home

I weep with pride, but I am bewildered by intoxication

So I do not understand for myself either pride or shame

When will I repent from sin? My repentance is my sin

When will I be protected when love has become my neighbor?

My reason says, 'Do not exchange guidance for my cloak'

Or (do not exchange it) for what has been decreed in the destruction of homelands