1. Tell the one disparaging us out of envy
We are greater than your assumption, unknown one

2. You have been fooled by our appearance
Oh ignorant brother, meanings are hidden

3. You want an eloquent smooth talker
With a spacious, lush residence

4. Or a lofty, towering palace
Yet you are shorter than us in meaning, oh ignorant one

5. Wake up and come to your senses, o brother of ignorance
A worn garment will decay while a palace crumbles

6. You assumed about us what was not true
Like a reckless foal stumbling as it walks

7. Have you seen our essence within?
And that which is stored secretly in our treasure?

8. Many a refined pearl lies beneath our rags
When the sea rages furiously

9. Many an eye have we averted
To one broken, yet he is the triumphant

10. We are a people who inherited concealment
But Allah alone is the ultimate revealer

11. We have folded our secret within our secret
To the dismay of enemies, it unfolds

12. Allah has granted us a prosperous time
And a hand whose reach is unlimited

13. An ancestor bequeathed a successor his state
His chest wrapped and covered

14. And in poetic verse through them
Ahmad, the greatest leader of the people

15. Their prominence in their existence grew
So wake up, you who belittle

16. Within us are many enlightened souls
With ascensions to the heavens blossoming

17. Within us are many silent hearts
From which springs of guidance burst forth

18. Within us are many speakers of refinement
With meanings that dazzle pearls

19. Whenever you concealed my people, they appeared
Whenever you deemed my people lowly, they became great

20. You poor soul are ignorant of them
They are people who, when absent, are present

21. Extended influence, and a manifest secret
And hearts whose state never wanes

22. And though separated on the outside
God is remembered when they are recalled

23. And if one of them becomes veiled
In the earth among ruins, he emerges

24. An extension none can deny
And it has an effect the denier acknowledges

25. Even enemies witness our states
Of an absent presence not hidden

26. And people's hearts are led by us
Unaware, while in our company

27. A guarded tablet whose contents
Are established by the unseen in this text

28. God most high has written that we
Are people of might, by none belittled

29. His grace in creation cannot be limited
And his call is never fully comprehended

30. He reveals the events from us
And events from us reveal Him

31. The one who enriched us in His support
Does not need, despite people's rejection

32. And the one who exalted us in His court
Among the doors of greatness is not made small

33. We were enriched, we were exalted
The blessing of God Almighty is thanked