1. Are there tidings from the stars when their aspect changes,
Or is that a mystery descending?

2. We are not a people who by our understandings
Fathom what is not from the Omnipotent Controller.

3. A people have said the stars have positions,
And the text in this is a binding authority.

4. Those positions are a method in their reality,
And they have from the concealed mystery a linking.

5. The Command established them in their positions, so whoever
Is ignorant of the Determiner of Truth, he is the straying.

6. The star gleams and the astrologer is deluded,
And the sand is scattered and the sand-divider is lacking.

7. And the swimmer of the decrees does its judgment,
While the brother of illusion without knowledge is confused.

8. Grasping and releasing - all of them are His actions;
He grasps, Glory be to Him! He releases!