1. عين حق إنسانها الإنسانُ

    وهي نار عنها سواها دخانُ

    An eye of Truth, whose pupil is the human being,

    And it is fire; all else is smoke from it.

  2. ما لها صورة سوى كل شيء

    أمرها لابسٌ لنا عريان

    It has no form but that of everything;

    Its nature is clothed, yet naked to us.

  3. إن بدت أفنت الجميع بوجه

    مشرق زان حسنه الإحسان

    If it appears, it annihilates all with a face

    Radiant, whose beauty beneficence adorns.

  4. وإذا ما اختفت أعارت سناها

    كل شيء فلاحت الأعيان

    And when it hides, it lends its radiance

    To everything, and beings appear.

  5. بنت عقل أهل السوى عبدوها

    ليت لو كان عندهم إذعان

    The people of otherness worshipped a daughter of reason;

    If only there were submission in them!

  6. يحسبون الذي يرون كمالاً

    وهو لو يعقلونه نقصان

    They think what they see is perfection,

    Yet it is imperfection, were they to understand it.

  7. ويظنون أنهم في حصول

    والذي حصلوا هو الحرمان

    And they think they have attained,

    Yet what they have attained is deprivation.

  8. ينصرون الهوى على الشرع عمداً

    وعليه يستحوذ الشيطان

    They deliberately champion desire over sacred law,

    And over it Satan gains mastery.

  9. بعدت درة الوجود عليهم

    فبأصدافها لهم لَوَذان

    The pearl of existence has become remote to them,

    So they take refuge in its shells.

  10. علمهم قشرُ علمِنا ولبوبٌ

    بقشورٍ عن الدواب تصان

    Their knowledge is the husk of ours, and kernels

    Are guarded by husks against beasts.

  11. عندهم من عقولهم حشراتٌ

    ولهم من نفوسهم ثعبان

    They have vermin from their minds,

    And from their selves they have a serpent.

  12. ربنا الله لا سواه وأما

    ربهم فهو عسجدٌ وجمان

    Our Lord is God, none but Him; and as for

    Their lord, it is gold and pearls.

  13. تعسوا أين هم وأين هوانا

    هو فينا عز وفيهم هوان

    Wretched are they! Where are they, and where is our love?

    In us it is honor; in them, humiliation.

  14. فهوانا يزداد بالله طيباً

    وهواهم بخبثهم يزدان

    So our love grows more fragrant through God,

    And their desire is adorned by their foulness.

  15. أمحلت أرضهم وغيثُ علومٍ

    هو في كل أرضنا هتّان

    Their land has grown barren, while a rain of knowledge

    Pours steadily over all our land.

  16. وهي تعلو عنهم وتدنو إلينا

    وهي فيهم خوف وفينا أمان

    And it rises above them and draws near to us,

    And in them it is fear; in us, security.

  17. إن لله في الوجود رجالاً

    كل حين بدين أحمد دانوا

    Indeed, God has men in existence,

    Who at every moment have adhered to Ahmad's faith.

  18. أسلموا ثم آمنوا بأمور

    تم فيها الإسلام والإيمان

    They embraced Islam, then believed in matters

    In which Islam and faith reached completion.

  19. هم على الجهل فطرة ليس يدرو

    ن وما العلم غير ما فيه كانوا

    They are by nature in ignorance, not knowing,

    And knowledge is nothing but that in which they were.

  20. هم أولوا العلم لا سواهم وفيه

    لم يزالوا لما عليه تفانوا

    They possess knowledge, none besides them; and in it

    They have remained, since they effaced themselves for it.

  21. قطعوا أنهم له بيقين

    فاستراحوا وزالت الأوثان

    They affirmed with certainty that they belong to Him,

    So they found rest, and the idols vanished.

  22. ورموا بالسوى على الكشف منهم

    في بحار الفنا فبان البيان

    And through their unveiling they cast all else

    Into the seas of annihilation, and clarity became manifest.

  23. أمة المهيمن الحق قامت

    وعلى عرشها استوى الرحمن

    The community of the Guardian, the Truth, arose,

    And the All-Merciful established Himself upon its throne.

  24. دخلت في غيب الغيوب فعنها

    قد تولى مكانها والزمان

    It entered the unseen of the unseen; so from it

    Its place and time have departed.

  25. ذهب الجسم وانطوى الروح عنهم

    ومضى الخمر واستقل الدنان

    The body departed, and the spirit was folded away from them,

    And the wine passed away, and the wine-jars departed.

  26. هم على حالهم به من قديم

    وكذا عندهم به الأكوان

    They have remained in their state through Him since long ago,

    And likewise, in their view, the worlds abide through Him.

  27. وهو أيضاً على الذي هو فيه

    ما عليه بنا تغيَّرَ شان

    And He too remains in the state He is in;

    Nothing about Him has changed because of us.

  28. حلة أهل ديننا لبسوها

    ما بهم بدعة ولا طغيان

    They have donned the robe of the people of our faith;

    In them is neither religious innovation nor transgression.