كان فرعون قاصداً تحقيقَهْ

كان فرعون قاصداً تحقيقَهْ

بالدعاوى فزندقته الحقيقَهْ

بالدعاوى فزندقته الحقيقَهْ

Pharaoh was intent on his own realization

Pharaoh sought to fulfill

Through claims; so Reality branded him a heretic.

his claims with heresy being the reality

ثم لما طغى فقال لقوم

ثم لما طغى فقال لقوم

إنني ربكم يضل فريقه

إنني ربكم يضل فريقه

Then, when he transgressed, he said to a people:

Then when he tyrannized, he said to his people

"Indeed I am your lord," misleading his faction.

“I am your lord” thus leading his group astray

ولكم ما علمت غيري إلهاً

ولكم ما علمت غيري إلهاً

ونسِيْ سالف العهود الوثيقه

ونسِيْ سالف العهود الوثيقه

"And I know of no god for you but myself."

“And I do not know of a god for you other than me”

And he forgot the firm covenants of old.

Forgetting the past covenants and pacts

فأطاعوه في المقال بجهل

فأطاعوه في المقال بجهل

ورأى كلُّ جمعِهم تصديقه

ورأى كلُّ جمعِهم تصديقه

So they ignorantly obeyed him in his assertion,

They obeyed him in word out of ignorance

And their whole assembly deemed him truthful.

And each of his followers saw his affirmation

أرسل الله بالشريعة موسى

أرسل الله بالشريعة موسى

وأخاه هارون معه شقيقه

وأخاه هارون معه شقيقه

God sent Moses with the divine law,

Allah sent Moses with the Sharia

And his brother Aaron with him, his full brother,

and his brother Aaron, his close kin

ينكران الضلال منه بجمع

ينكران الضلال منه بجمع

لم يضف مع حضوره تفريقه

لم يضف مع حضوره تفريقه

Both denouncing his error in a state of union

To deny together his misguidance

To which he had not added his differentiation alongside his presence.

Without any division despite his presence

قال قولاً له على القرب مكراً

قال قولاً له على القرب مكراً

منه حتى في البحر ذاق غريقه

منه حتى في البحر ذاق غريقه

He spoke a word to him at close range, with guile

He spoke to him with deceitful closeness

On his part, until he tasted his drowning in the sea.

Until Moses tasted drowning in the sea

قال آمنت طامعاً في حياة

قال آمنت طامعاً في حياة

مثل موسى فلم يجد تعويقه

مثل موسى فلم يجد تعويقه

He said, "I believe," hoping for a life

He said “I believe” aspiring life

Like Moses's; but his delay was of no avail.

like Moses but found no prevention

ولقد كان عارفاً بالتجلي

ولقد كان عارفاً بالتجلي

فيه لكن دهاه قطع الرقيقه

فيه لكن دهاه قطع الرقيقه

And indeed he knew the self-disclosure

He was aware of the manifestation

Within him; but severing the subtle bond overwhelmed him.

within him but his severed slaves distracted him

حيث أضحى ينفي السوى منه للعي

حيث أضحى ينفي السوى منه للعي

ن على غرة بنفس رشيقه

ن على غرة بنفس رشيقه

As he came to negate otherness in himself for the

Thus he came to deny the transcendence in him

Essence, unawares, with a graceful soul.

to the senses, in the prime of his own glory

ثم لما تدارك الأمر كشفاً

ثم لما تدارك الأمر كشفاً

وجد الحق باعثاً توفيقه

وجد الحق باعثاً توفيقه

Then, when he rectified the matter through unveiling,

But when he realized the matter clearly

He found the Real bringing about his success.

He found the truth motivating his success

وهو من قبل ذائق ليس يخفى

وهو من قبل ذائق ليس يخفى

عنه في جانب الإله دقيقه

عنه في جانب الإله دقيقه

And he had tasted before; there was not hidden

And he already knew well

From him a single subtlety in the realm of God,

the subtleties on the side of God

غير حكم السوى به فرأى المو

غير حكم السوى به فرأى المو

ت الطبيعي يقتضي ترقيقه

ت الطبيعي يقتضي ترقيقه

Except for otherness's sway over him; so he saw

Except that he judged ordinary existence

Natural death as demanding his refinement.

to necessitate its dilution

فأحسّت بقطعها النفس منه

فأحسّت بقطعها النفس منه

عن إله تعوَّدت تعليقه

عن إله تعوَّدت تعليقه

So the soul sensed its severance by him

Thus his soul felt its severance from

From a god to whom it had grown accustomed to being bound.

a God it was used to clinging to