1. A system, O son of affection or illusion
Organized with the wires of questioning

2. You say, when the prisoner desires a journey
To the quarter of perfection with perfection

3. And intends to be religious with what
The texts of the Book of the Owner of Majesty contain

4. And what is in the traditions of the Pure Chaste one
A series with the chains of narration of men

5. Is there other than the proofs a way
For one who intends arrival to the union

6. And is the best of generations and who comes after
Ever strived one day to saying and speaking

7. So tell me which individual among them
Has worn the dress of affiliation and impersonation

8. For they did not know schools of thought in travels
Nor accompanied them one day in setting forth

9. With Islam and faith they summoned one another
And prevented contention or debate

10. And whoever's hands fell short of efforts
Strove towards the great ones for questioning

11. So he drinks from the spring of the text until
He says, indeed I have narrated with what he narrated to me

12. And no person was attributed to the questioned one
Nor did this occur to them in mind

13. If the way of people does not avail you
They are the best of generations without debate

14. So the earth has narrowed, folded up for you
And you have rebutted the truth with imagination

15. Whoever knows, indeed for him is a counterpart
From the noble companions without equal

16. And whoever is ignorant, indeed for him is a peer
From the companions who clung to questioning

17. For they were of two groups, a group
Exalted, adorned with majesty

18. And a group that had no share in knowledge
And had shares in fighting

19. Both groups tread a path
And did not follow the imitation of men

20. And no man among them was attributed to Bakr
Or Umar over the passage of nights

21. So this scholar narrates to that one
And that deficient one preserves the questioning

22. And you, O eminent scholar
It is true you incline towards the lofty

23. Thus your father, he being excellent in what
He composes of the marvels of speech

24. So be followers of every authentic text
And shun every imagination

25. And do not dread the multitude of a people
So whoever finds evidence, then what does he care

26. And compare in the chests those of exaltation
To you from the exaltation of the Owner of Majesty

27. When someone says, God said, a person
Bows down before the One Who Bears mountains

28. And if the Messenger says, he says this
Then the sayings of men have fallen

29. And whoever finds the truth and it is truth
Then clinging to imagination is invalidated

30. And whoever desires debate, then destruction
For you are the times of debate

31. And if the hateful one says without restraint
So-and-so among you is more knowledgeable in speech

32. Then the hidden thing is exposed, so do not respond to him
For ignorance is like the incurable disease

33. As for one who goes on to negate juristic reasoning
And does not feel ashamed of saying the absurd

34. Say, do you know which text
Came to specifically rule out perfection

35. And did the God single out with His grace one
Who is counted ahead without a successor

36. A saying no gallant person said
Who fell short in the battle of contention

37. A saying God protected a people from
Noble ones who clasped the hand of loftiness

38. By your life, after the six is a people
They are the heroes of the arena of debate

39. By your life, after the six a generation
Venerates the one who makes particular over the glorified

40. And you said in doctrinal matters satisfaction is not
Given to their imitation or binding reason

41. That falls under the generality
Which is prohibiting broadly in speech

42. And the report of penal laws is not a true narrative
But counted among saying and speaking

43. To al-Basri it is attributed by people
And Mansur ibn Zadhan exaggerates

44. And our Lord's Friday was legislated for ease
And was not legislated restricted to a ruler

45. Blood in the path of truth you eschew
And tread it over the passage of nights