1. Is dawn naught but the full moon in the brightened horizon
Appearing, to light up the night with its wings over wings?

2. Or the partridge sheltering its nest?
Or the copious rain from the pouring clouds?

3. It passed as the spear passes, and there shone forth
An expanse vaster than the expanse of the lance,

4. And there shone forth the light at dawn, which is the light in the forenoon
And a nature as pure as the dew in the morn,

5. A youth whom jealous men roll themselves up
Against his noble qualities and his truer glory like a wrapped-up hedgehog

6. He is serious, so affairs are tractable to his seriousness
And if he walks about freely in jest and play

7. No side of an object of desire is locked against us
Unless we open it with the Opening

8. Your ransom is folk whose natures preceded
To the sublime peak and noble temper

9. You have promised and soon your promise will succeed
For hastening the fulfillment of promises is a glory of glory

10. And you see the advice of the Imam as a duty
And his informing about me as a kind of good advice

11. He has noble qualities beyond description
And the utmost praise that can be borrowed to praise them is my praise