O candle of the world, last night your light was not in our circle

Tell the truth, O candle of your face, where were you last night, where?

Look towards our hearts, for from the desire to see you

Fortune is where your beauty opened its collar

Last night wherever you were, I know that today from sorrow

(That place) has become like my heart, a mosque of "La hawla wa la..." (There is no power nor strength but with God)

Last night I was wandering until dawn, lamenting

May the morning come quickly! Alas, there is no sleep and no denial

You are the shadow of light, and we are all the world your shadow

When has light been seen that it would be separate from the shadow?

Sometimes (the shadow) is beside it (light), sometimes it becomes absorbed in it

Being beside it is (like being with) God, being absorbed in it is (like) meeting (God)

The shadow has stretched out the hand of intense seeking towards that wondrous light

So that when it diminishes, God's light will draw it to God

The explanation of the separation and intermingling of shadow and light

Is infinite, and "If you come with weakness, (I will) provide help"

The light is the causer, and whatever is caused is its shadow

Without a cause, God has indeed made a cause for everything

The causer and the caused have become mirrors for each other

Whoever has not become like a mirror has not seen the mirror