1. هذا القديم وهذه أفعالُهُ

    وجلالُه هو ظاهر وجمالُهُ

    This is the Eternal One, and these are His acts.

    His majesty is manifest, as is His beauty.

  2. لا حادث إلا الذي في علمه

    بالحق كان لذكره إنزاله

    No originated thing exists except what is in His knowledge;

    in truth, its sending down was for remembrance of Him.

  3. والكل فيه وليس شيء خارجاً

    عنه وهذا في الظهور كماله

    All is in Him, and nothing is outside

    Him; this is His perfection in manifestation.

  4. والحادث المعلوم ليس بحادث

    علم قديم مثله أحواله

    The known originated thing is not originated:

    it is eternal knowledge, and its states are likewise.

  5. لكن له حدث يقال شريعة

    إن الطاهرة رفعه وزواله

    Yet it has an impurity; it is said in sacred law

    that the pure [state] is its removal and disappearance.

  6. كالعبد يعلم ثم يذكر علمه

    لا خارجاً عنه وذاك خياله

    Like a servant who knows, then recalls his knowledge,

    not outside himself—and that is his imagination.

  7. أهل الجمال لهم به بسط كما

    أهل الجلال بقبضهم إجلاله

    The people of beauty have expansion through Him, just as

    the people of majesty revere Him through their contraction.

  8. لا هؤلاء لهؤلاء مجانس

    هيهات أين الليل أين هلاله

    These are not akin to those.

    How far apart! Where is the night, and where its crescent?

  9. جمع الإله الحق يوم قيامة

    كل الجلال لناره إضلاله

    God, the Real, gathered on Resurrection Day

    all majesty for His Fire—His leading astray;

  10. وكذا الجمال جميعه المجموع في

    نور الجنان تفيَّأته ظلاله

    and likewise beauty, all of it, gathered in

    the light of the Gardens, in which His shadows sought shade.

  11. ذاك الذي للظالمين كما الذي

    للصالحين هو الجمال وآله

    That which is for the wrongdoers, like that which

    is for the righteous, is beauty and its kin.

  12. مقسومة في العلم تلك وهذه

    حكمت بقسمتها لنا آزاله

    That and this are apportioned in knowledge;

    His eternities past decreed their allotment to us.

  13. لا خلف لا تبديل في كلماته

    نص الكتاب درت به أبداله

    No broken promise, no alteration in His words:

    the Book's explicit text, which His Abdal have understood.