1. If this which I endure
Remains with me, I shall not be patient

2. I am not of stone nor am I ashes
I am but as you see, human

3. I have a delicious drink, but
A bitterness from the soul mixes with it, bitterness

4. Bitter in taste, and though its roughness
Without it, there would be the tomb and patience

5. I shall complain of you to those who
Are to me as vapor when sight ends

6. If I was once tired by the decree of a visitant
So now from it to you I apologize

7. None is there but You, and the veil upon
Types in whose bodies they were confined

8. Those who fall short, if they knew
What the gnostics knew, they would not blame

9. As if above this nonexistence
They did not exist or as if they were buried

10. Witnessed in the heart I witness them
From the interior of knowledge, sight falls short of it

11. So bounty if they believe and if they thank
And might if they deny and if they disbelieve

12. And justice if they torment and if they violate
And grace if they have mercy and if they cover up

13. I do not ignore the wisdom which has appeared
In the context of their creation, nor do I neglect

14. To the doctrine of compulsion and withdrawal is a refuge
So both doctrines are harmful

15. I negate and affirm without bothering
With the words of him who says if this occurs

16. And the straight path its verses have taken away
The clear text of the Book and the explicit tradition

17. It has disposed certainty and pure knowledge
To the elite of witnesses and the general foreordaining

18. I do not let doubt enter the home of my beliefs
Which ignorance has covered or subtlety has perforated

19. This which because of it my soul despair
And bitterness became its companion

20. O my refuge! I do not say in discomfort
Rather I do not cease to need You

21. I have gone with folly if You turn me back
And You have disposed me to pride if I boast

22. My garment is humility as long as I live
As I have become clothed in my incapacity

23. It describes the servants and I do not abandon it
Sufficient with it and dependent upon it

24. O Lord, O my hope and my support
My victorious defender, my refuge, my mighty aide

25. How many bounties and graces You have
And how many sublime gifts You possess

26. If my life had been as long as time and passed
In gratitude, wariness would surpass it

27. You treated me with kindness in the beginning
You made me nobility while I had no trace

28. The tempting music nearly held me back
Had you not repelled it with knowledge and contemplation

29. Nor did the damned one come to tempt me
Except you pelted him from on high with burning projectiles

30. To God belong mysteries in His creation
That cannot be enumerated or discerned by sight

31. For the secret of a people made worthy to carry it
How many news items met their confidant