1. If you were of me, you would not be absent from me
Nor would you change from my essence

2. I would still be hearing and seeing
Answering with speech those who call upon me

3. I would not find, with slumber, my loss
Of me, while the wakeful one sees me

4. The stars of death would not travel with me
Beyond the quarter of my encampment, short of wishes

5. And whoever went far from me obedient
Would overcome through me all who disobeyed me

6. Rather, I am of those whom when
I went astray from myself, He guided me

7. My Lord has bounty over the wilderness
He spreads me out whenever difficulties constrict me

8. Through Him I see myself as I see Him
So I prove the pure with vision

9. And above descent, setting,
Thinning out and approaching