1. إني أنا بك يا ودودْ

    عدم أحاط به الوجودْ

    Indeed, through You, O Loving One, I am

    nothingness encompassed by Being.

  2. حق أحاط بباطلٍ

    وله الركوع به السجودْ

    Reality has encompassed unreality;

    and to Him belongs bowing, through Him prostration.

  3. وكذا العوالم كلها

    مثلي ومثلك يا كنود

    And likewise are all the worlds,

    like me and like you, O ungrateful one.

  4. ما ثم غير إحاطة

    بالكل من رب ودود

    There is nothing there but an encompassing

    of all by a loving Lord.

  5. والظل أنت وعلمه

    في نور طلعته العمود

    And you are the shadow, and His knowledge

    is the pillar in the light of His countenance.

  6. يا ذا المحيط بنا كما

    هو بالجميع له النفود

    O you! The One encompassing us—as

    He does all—has pervading reach.

  7. سور به ظهرت لها

    صور بأنواع الحدود

    An enclosing wall, through which there appeared for them

    forms with various kinds of boundaries.

  8. قدم كمثل دوائر

    أوساطها عدم يرود

    Pre-eternity is like circles,

    whose centers are a wandering nothingness.

  9. والله قال بكل شي

    ء قل محيط محض جود

    And God has said: 'All things

    He encompasses'—say: sheer bounty.

  10. بل ذاك قرآن مجي

    د وهو في لوح الورود

    Rather, that is a glorious Qur'an,

    and it is on the tablet of arrival.

  11. يا من تحير فيه لم

    يعرفه ما هذا الصدود

    O you who are bewildered about Him and have not

    known Him—what is this turning away?

  12. كم ذا التواني هذه

    أكفان مثلك واللحود

    How long this delay? These are

    the shrouds of your like, and the graves.

  13. فاطلب إلهك وحده

    منه به ودع الجحود

    So seek your God alone,

    from Him, through Him, and abandon denial.

  14. واعلم بأنك إن طلب

    ت سواه معه فلا يجود

    And know that if you seek

    any other with Him, He will not give generously.

  15. هو واحد في ملكه

    والخلق أجمعهم جنود

    He is One in His dominion,

    and created beings, all of them, are troops.

  16. كن فيه يقظاناً له

    ودع البرية في رقود

    Be awake in Him, for Him,

    and leave creation in slumber.

  17. وانظر إليه به ولا

    تنظر إليك عسى تسود

    And look toward Him through Him, and do not

    look toward yourself; perhaps you will attain mastery.

  18. في قلبك السر الخفي

    شمس لها منك القيود

    In your heart, the hidden secret

    is a sun whose fetters come from you.

  19. هذا مقام أولي النهى

    تلك الجهابذة الأسود

    This is the station of those endowed with understanding,

    those master sages, those lions.

  20. فاسلك على منهاجهم

    واحرص على حفظ العهود

    So travel upon their path,

    and be diligent in keeping the covenants.

  21. ترفع إلى أوج العلا

    وتكون من أهل الشهود

    You will be raised to the zenith of sublimity,

    and become one of the people of witnessing.