1. نحن من المنسوبين

    لسنا من المطلوبين

    We are among those affiliated,

    not among those sought.

  2. أرسل ذا القول لنا

    والدنا بالتعيين

    These words were sent to us

    by our father, expressly,

  3. في سبب نعرفه

    بشارة للتحصين

    for a reason we know,

    as good tidings for protection.

  4. وأمر القائل أن

    يخبرنا في ذا الحين

    And he ordered the speaker to

    tell us at this time.

  5. وذاك في نصف جما

    دى أوّل بالتهوين

    And that was in the middle of

    Jumada al-Awwal, to put it simply,

  6. لمائة والألف من

    هجرة ذخر الناجين

    in the year eleven hundred since

    the migration of the treasure of the saved.

  7. وكان في واقعة ال

    رؤيا لبعض الأهلين

    And it happened in the

    dream-vision of one of the family.

  8. أَحْفَظَهُ ألفاظَها

    وزاده في التلقين

    He made him memorize its words,

    and gave him further instruction.

  9. وقال قل له كذا

    عني لفرط التحنين

    And he said, 'Tell him this

    from me, out of deep tenderness,

  10. فإنه يعلم ما

    أقوله بالتبيين

    for he knows what

    I say with clear explanation.'

  11. نعم به أعلم عن

    قطع بدون التخمين

    Yes, I know it with

    certainty, without conjecture.

  12. يعني به نسبتنا

    لله حقاً والدين

    By it he means our affiliation

    to God in truth, and to religion,

  13. وللعلوم والتقى

    وسيرة المهديين

    and to the sciences and piety,

    and the way of the rightly guided,

  14. وللكمال والمعا

    رف العلى والتمكين

    and to perfection and

    lofty gnosis and firm grounding,

  15. وللمقامات التي

    تمكينها في تلوين

    and to the spiritual stations whose

    firm grounding lies in changing states,

  16. وللجمال والجلا

    ل إرث آل ياسين

    and to beauty and

    majesty—the inheritance of the family of Ya-Sin,

  17. وإرث من كلمه ال

    حق بطور سينين

    and the inheritance of him whom the

    Real addressed on Mount Sinin,

  18. ومن عليه أُنبتت

    شجرة من يقطين

    and of him over whom was made to grow

    a gourd tree,

  19. وكل مأمون على ال

    وحي الذي بجبرين

    and of everyone entrusted with the

    revelation conveyed through Jibrin,

  20. والنسب الذاتي الذي

    جل عن المخلوقين

    and the essential lineage that

    is exalted above created beings,

  21. الطاهر الظاهر في

    شهم أشم العرنين

    pure, manifest in

    a gallant man with a high-bridged nose.

  22. فما له من أحد

    يطلبه بالتكوين

    Thus there is no one

    who seeks him through creation,

  23. بعزة الشان وما

    لديه من فرط اللين

    by virtue of his exalted standing and

    the abundant gentleness he possesses.

  24. فليس مطلوباً لمن

    سواه من معلومين

    So he is not sought by any

    known beings other than himself.

  25. وهو الذي يطلب من

    شاء مقام المسكين

    And he is the one who seeks whoever

    desires the station of the poor.

  26. أعزنا الله به

    وزادنا في التمكين

    God has ennobled us through him,

    and increased our firm grounding.

  27. ولم تزل حلَّتنا

    بحسنه في تحسين

    And our robe has never ceased

    to grow fairer through his beauty,

  28. ما أسفر الصبح وصا

    ح طيره بالتلحين

    as long as dawn breaks and

    its birds cry out in melody,

  29. ولبس الروض من ال

    زهور ثوب التزيين

    and the garden puts on, from the

    flowers, a robe of adornment,

  30. وما انجلى الغصن على

    نسيم عرف النسرين

    and as long as the bough shines in

    a breeze fragrant with wild roses.