I have a Maker, hidden are His I have a high Creating Lord
  bounties unto me; yea, whose mercies aye are hid;
  there’s no parting me from a Lord who hath none equal
  Him, and without peer is He. and no fear is known to Him.

Depart from me in peace and So fare thee safe and leave me
  leave me and my strangerhood; lone in strangerhood to wone. 
  For with the lonely For He the only One, consoles
  exile still the One shall my loneliness so lone.
  company.

So I left him and continued       Accordingly I left him,
my journey; and                   but every station I came
every stage I came to, I          to, I found he had foregone
found him before me, till         me, till I reached Al-Madinah,
I came to Medina, where           where I lost sight
I lost sight of him and           of him, and could hear
could hear no news of             no tidings of him.   Here
him.   Here I met Abou             I met Abu Yazid
Yezid el Bustani and Abou         al-Bustami and Abu Bakr
Beker es Shibli and a             al-Shibli and a number of
number of other doctors,          other Shaykhs and learned
to whom I told my case,           men to whom with many
and they said, “God               complaints I told my case,
forbid that thou shouldst         and they said, “Heaven
gain his company after            forbid that thou shouldst
this!   This was Abou              gain his company after
Jaafer the leper, in whose        this!   He was Abu Ja’afar
name, at all tides, the folk      the leper, in whose name
pray for rain, and by whose       folk at all times pray for
blessings prayers are answered.”  rain and by whose blessing
When I heard                      prayers their end attain.”
this, my longing for his          When I heard their words,
company redoubled and             my desire for his company
I implored God to reunite         redoubled and I implored
me with him.   Whilst I            the Almighty to reunite me
was standing on Arafat,           with him.   Whilst I was
one plucked me from behind,       standing on Arafat one
so I turned and                   pulled me from behind, so
behold, it was Abou Jaafer.        I turned and behold, it
At this sight I gave a loud       was my man.   At this
cry and fell down in a            sight I cried out with a
swoon; but when I came            loud cry and fell down in
to myself, he was gone.           a fainting fit; but when I
came to myself he had disappeared
from my sight.

This increased my yearning        This increased my yearning
for him and the ways              for him and the
were straitened upon              ceremonies were tedious to
me and I prayed God to            me, and I prayed Almighty
give me sight of him;             Allah to give me sight of
nor was it but a few days         him; nor was it but a few
after when one pulled me          days after, when lo! one