1. Every word that calls to God's religion is best spoken
And the best thing I believe in is the joy of requests

2. So your crying out about God's religion takes precedence
Over everything, in your view is it clear or ambiguous?

3. You are nothing but God's deputy in the land
So if you have never tasted one day of His deputyship without isolation

4. You inherited the Messenger of God after the caliphs
So be the best of them in supporting his exemplary tradition

5. For among the people, if you call
To supporting Islam, foremost and without hesitation

6. Perfection and forbearance in you adorned the caliphate
You took charge while they were exhausted by its burdens

7. Power was handed over to you when guidance was harmed
And it was afflicted by those who oppose it beyond measure

8. They have revealed what they used to conceal and awakened
While the matter of guidance has declined and their matter has risen

9. And in the abode of Islam you read their books
In which they composed chapters in crowded assemblies

10. Guidance has no sword but you, its progeny
You are a sword that cannot be withstood when it is drawn

11. We protect the text of the scriptures about it, and we have nothing
Except your conquering sword, it harms so it harms not in vain

12. Reconsider the matter without following blindly
You will find them to be issues you cannot deny with reason

13. And take the religion's right from its adversary with justice and leave off
For one who seeks justice is no oppressor of the adversary

14. I have not been negligent of God's right
But they consented to bear its burden heavily

15. If scholars give a legal opinion to a young man in a case
With what is not God's ruling they have gone astray and not astray

16. The imitating king has been excused, scholar
So leave off the several who gave him this rope

17. Let me ask them and order them to answer
So we may know who was correct and who slipped

18. Oh scholars of religion, why do I see you
With the enemies as if you were the morning star with the moon

19. Yet in your religion it is that divinity we have made
And that creatures have made their Lord a fabrication

20. That the god of a person is like a pearl built
So the builder knows it but the ignorant deny it

21. Is it in your religion that the one who prays bows to a planet
And to the sun and idols when he has prayed?

22. Why did they yell it and your knowledge
Says to you, refute them, yet you said to them no?

23. You meet them affectionately like a lover meets his beloved
And you placate them in word and placate them in deed

24. The youth's love of one hostile to God negates
Faith in your scriptures that are recited

25. Islam has come undermined from where it felt secure
And it counted among its enemies those it considered friendly

26. It has only come from its partisans, and sometimes
There comes from the branches of origin what severs the origin

27. Did He not say, shatter the one who utters heresy with a rock
That would scatter what gathered in his mouth

28. By saying that praise has no meaning because you
Came affirming what was already negated before

29. So the furthest in there is no god, He is the One
Who came affirming after your saying, not

30. And He said He decreed that none but Him be worshipped
So worship whoever you wish for He is the Lord of the Most High heaven

31. Words that nearly cause the earth to split and the sky
To rupture or nearly become addled

32. They have innovated a sin whose evidence
Is a dream seen or a lying informer they roast

33. And they said we took it from God without
Intermediation of revelation so we asked the Most High

34. We said you lied, there is no youth after Ahmad
Who takes rulings from our Lord the Majestic

35. Rather He left a book and tradition
Whoever pursues a ruling other than them has strayed

36. That was Satan displaying to some of you
And he may not even see a thing so he fabricates speciously

37. And the vision of a youth and demon's whisper in the mind, if in line
With Scripture it is good, so do not roast him

38. If it contradicts Scripture suppress it for it is
The devil's temptations cast with arrows

39. Whoever sees him walking on air in his imagination
And does not consider Scripture forbidden or permitted

40. That is an imposter so deny his claim to have seen
For he is not truthful in his accounts even if upright

41. And in sorcery is that which resembles miracles, and what
Distinguishes this from that and elevates the exalted

42. Is Scripture so let them seek protection in its rope
While the wretched and happy are those who cut the rope

43. And they said the spiritual stations of sainthood are with us
Equalling the stations of prophethood, rather higher

44. They have lied, the saint's enemy is the enemy
So one who fears the former does not resemble

45. One who knows disobeys and does not stand
And makes God's enemies a preoccupation for him has erred

46. Do you not know that silence on harm
To the Lord of the heavens since it was forbidden is unlawful

47. You fear what? God has separated between you
And wrapped those who revive His tradition that was fragmented

48. You fear the positions will be emptied of you?
No, they belong to you and you are their rightful people

49. Will this foreigner stay empowered in his blasphemy
While you are like bubbles in a pool, humiliated?

50. And we hear from our Lord what pains us
So we compromise it and loosen the rope for him

51. They say it suffices the person to reform himself
And reform what evil and injustice touch him

52. Oh no, we were not created for this, and worse
Than that is one whose main concern is to fill his stomach

53. No one lives who compromises on harm
To his Master except the life of one estranged and barren

54. For what can the youth possess if his soul
Falls short in religion, and religion is his greatest value

55. Did you not struggle in God's cause His true struggle?
An address to us from our Lord including all

56. So the incapable among us, his struggle is with the tongue
And the fierce with striking with the sword, so no languor

57. How excellent is consciousness of God and how prosperous is guidance
And fortunate the servant who draws in supporting it a sharp sword

58. How Able is the Creator to support Himself
But by way of choice He tests those tested

59. Regarding struggle with the tongue I say it
While you, son of Ishmael, struggle against them with action

60. By God I will not cower to anyone in my religion
Or make my soul to its Creator a disgrace

61. By God they will not harm my God in His land
While I sleep in it with closed eyes or walk in it on feet

62. And in it to idols a caller to misguidance
Believes they belong to God if worshipped in seclusion

63. And he has settled in it and remained over the people
And those in it have yielded to their saying, disgraced

64. God refused that they repent and return
To Islam's creed or else they will be killed

65. And until I see it I will not see a Muslim in it
Debased while over him a defiant unbeliever rises

66. Do not neglect them, O son of Ishmael
He has ordered insulting our religion so it's easy

67. And do not listen to the legal opinion they spoke
Men of passion placated men of similar form

68. And if you want to know the essence they concealed
And the confusion they burdened you with unloading

69. Then ask about them in history, their lines
In what they opposed the prophets and messengers

70. And task them to write, each person among them
What they had decreed in secret and recited

71. You will find them downcast, silent, disgraced
Whoever disobeys God's command or prohibition is disgraced

72. They fear the lines will remain about them
A shameful disgrace that does not die or fade

73. So their pens will shame them in their lives
And shame when they die, their descendants after them

74. But here is the legal opinion of men whose lines
Were their garments when they died upon their superior merit

75. The legal rulings of Badr al-Din ibn Jama'a
And their like, so be generous to him and their kind

76. When recited to the Muslims, they will pray for mercy upon them
And hearts will want for them a place of descent

77. Histories that maintained after them a reputation of goodness
For the righteousness they put forth before

78. With them you will attain the truth unveiled
And reveal a matter they confused you with carrying

79. While others do not despair if the face of guidance
Turns away, whether turning to or from the truth

80. For you are the one who, if you wish, can strengthen its pillar
And they intend to uproot from it the fundamental enemy

81. O joy of Islam, if the covering is removed
For Ahmad from one who confused us with fraud

82. Who then for guidance, when empowered one day
Will clothe its nakedness after their empowerment's humiliation?

83. Through it hands will extend to you, all people in supplication
And the Merciful and the angels will be pleased

84. And Muslim hearts will be filled with a happiness
That will encompass and its secret will fill grief and aridity

85. For love of the world, Islam has mixed with blood
And it has penetrated psyches, flesh, and nerves

86. Your path a faction has assailed
Taking its weak points and eating it bit by bit

87. And they have legislated a law that permitted them through
Their imam to worship the sun and calf

88. And they wrote lies praising him
To provoke the ignorant and heedless against your religion

89. And some have agreed with them praising him
Ugly for them and for what they have worn out

90. And here are their shaykh's legal opinions in his book
Whose disgraces shame their embarrassed faces

91. Leave them off, for you have no substitute for
Our Lord and His Prophet, no origin

92. Take the advice of one whose eighty years have humbled him
For that is the age of one nearing his end

93. I advise it though the Lord of heaven and Ahmad
Master of creatures, foreigner and compatriot, advised it

94. To gain good through supplication from the pious
And insults from the wretched bearing burdens

95. Do not, O son of Ishmael, return to the pious
And those in whom is goodness, not the sperm-like rabble

96. My God, inspire him with Your approval so please him
With truth and let truth be pleased with him, great pleasure

97. And oppress the enemies through it, for You and Yours a blow
So through it reform in the people of Your law what was corrupted

98. And let him love what You love, honoured
And hate what You hate and burns

99. And through it harmonize hearts, and through it
Be a protector, and increase, O Lord, his enemies' isolation

100. And complete for him this perfection with infallibility
So its rainfall of approval remains for him a spring