1. You descended to me from the highest abode
A soul that left behind a cloak that knows not

2. She knocked and turned into a delicate essence as though
She were thin sheets fortified and aloof

3. Veiled from every knower, in quantity and quality
Like the four directions

4. But her powers - how can they be concealed
When she travelled unveiled

5. She reached you reluctantly and perhaps
Won her physical space at dawn

6. Until when she clothed you with her gentleness
She disliked parting from you, she feels pain

7. She became accustomed, yet did not, so when she met
She settled, yet did not, your struggle in place

8. She turned from the Almighty's command, but
Became accustomed to ruins and desolation

9. And I think she forgot pledges of passion
No! But her longing did not relent

10. Content with her source, she settled for four
And homes - with her separation she was not content

11. Until when the splendor of her descent connected
And her aching body was fully adorned

12. And the brilliance and loftiness of her intellect declined
From the letter meem of her center in the house of bareness

13. The heavy ta stuck to her and she became
In each limb her making was unrestrained

14. She struts in the cold of free choice and prohibition
Between landmarks and submissive hills

15. She cries when she remembers passionate pledges
Alas, her joy in pasture from you is denied

16. If she does good, she cries, with tears that accuse, when she sins
And remains turning in grief over the dung

17. That she became accustomed to, for the pleasures
Of a miserable life

18. Were it not for the Preserver, the lands would have destroyed her
Though eroded by the blowing four winds

19. Since dense polytheism denied her, and the inclination
Of the weak turned her away from the Highest

20. She slipped, distracted from His guidance, so deficiency
Deprived her of expansive loftiness

21. Until when the journey to the Abode was near
And the composition of the dense darkness dispersed

22. And she prepared with only Him toward the Most High
And departure to the vast space drew nigh

23. She became one who parts from all left behind
Subject of every tear and rupture

24. And a part of her existence returns to His existence
In her the soil's ally not mourned

25. She awoke when the cover was removed and saw
In separation the position of all bidding farewell

26. And she realized within herself and became certain
Of what cannot be realized by drowsy eyes

27. And she came to sing atop a towering summit
"If only I had exercised sound judgment in my square"

28. For ignorance demeans every defiant one
And knowledge raises everyone not raised

29. "So for what was I brought down from the towering?
Except to be blessed by the Highest

30. Thus did I fall from the sublime pavilion
To the bottom of the low valley

31. If the God brought me down for a lofty wisdom
And I clung to ribs

32. I was happy, though folded from the exceptional intellectual
For my descent, if a blow from a powerful one

33. Why do I care for barking of the foolish?
Why did I not hear of her victory and bounty

34. To be a hearer of what was not heard?
And to know all that is unseen

35. In His essence, if empowered in the niche
She reaps in seeing Him minute subtleties

36. In both worlds - their being patched cannot be hoped
She who cut time's course

37. To dwell near the heavy celestial sphere
And she who prevented years from rising

38. Until she set without the horizon
So it is as if she were lightning that flashed with passion

39. For her existence in us is that of the swift
Eternal, while lightning glimmers for a moment

40. Then folds as if it never shone