1. فر إبليس عن هدى العرفانِ

    حين قيل اسجدوا وآدم داني

    Iblis fled from the guidance of gnosis,

    when it was said, "Prostrate yourselves," while Adam was near.

  2. فتجلى به الإله وفعلٌ

    هو بالله ظاهر الحدثان

    Then God disclosed Himself through him—a work

    whose createdness is manifest through God.

  3. ثم إبليس ضل عنه وفيه

    حسد قام واعترته الأماني

    Then Iblis strayed from Him, and within him

    envy arose, and vain hopes assailed him.

  4. كان في القلب منه جهل وكفر

    بالإله المهيمن الرحمن

    In his heart were ignorance and disbelief

    in God, the Guardian, the All-Merciful.

  5. فبدا الله آدماً بالتجلي

    وهو الحق ليس للحق ثاني

    So God appeared as Adam through self-disclosure,

    and He is the Real; the Real has no second.

  6. وتبدّى علم التجلي وما كا

    ن وعلم التنزيه كان معاني

    And knowledge of self-disclosure appeared, though it had not

    existed; knowledge of transcendence consisted of meanings.

  7. ثم إن الأملاك قد علموا من

    آدمٍ علمَ ذا التجلي المصان

    Then the angels indeed learned from

    Adam the knowledge of this guarded self-disclosure.

  8. ولإبليس علم تنزيه ربي

    ما له في علم التجلي يدان

    And Iblis has knowledge of my Lord's transcendence;

    he has no grasp of the knowledge of self-disclosure.

  9. حيث جاء اسجدوا لآدم حتى

    سجدوا دونه لجهل يعاني

    When the command came, "Prostrate yourselves before Adam," then

    they prostrated themselves without him, for he suffered from ignorance.

  10. ما اسجدوا قال ربنا أيْ لمخلو

    ق وحاشا فإن ذلك فاني

    Our Lord did not say, "Prostrate yourselves"—meaning, before a created

    being—far be it! For that is perishable.

  11. إنما الله ظاهر متجلٍّ

    كان في آدم العظيم الشان

    God alone, manifest and self-disclosing,

    was in Adam, great in station.

  12. وهو الله لا سواه ولكن

    ظاهر في أفعاله للعيان

    And He is God, none other than He, yet

    manifest in His acts for all to see.

  13. وهو غيب ولا تغيُّر للغي

    ب سوى بالظهور في الإمكان

    And He is unseen, and no change comes to the

    unseen except through manifestation in the realm of possibility.

  14. حاش لله أن أملاك ربي

    سجدوا للمخلوق في الأكوان

    Far be it from God that my Lord's angels

    should have prostrated themselves before a created being in the worlds.