لله في كل ما يبديه تعليلُ

لله في كل ما يبديه تعليلُ

والخلق تكثيرُه في الأمر تقليلُ

والخلق تكثيرُه في الأمر تقليلُ

In all that He brings forth, God has a reason.

God has an explanation for all that He manifests.

Creation—its multiplication within the Command is diminution.

And creation—multiplying it is, in the matter, diminution.

صح الجواب لقوم يسألون وما

صح الجواب لقوم يسألون وما

صح الجواب لأن الفعل توكيل

صح الجواب لأن الفعل توكيل

The answer is sound for people who ask—and yet

The answer was sound for people who ask, and yet not

the answer is not sound, for action is delegation.

sound was the answer, for action is delegation.

في كل شيء له سر الوكالة إذ

في كل شيء له سر الوكالة إذ

لم يخرج الشيء عنه فهو تأصيل

لم يخرج الشيء عنه فهو تأصيل

In everything lies His mystery of delegated agency, since

In everything, His is the secret of agency, since

no thing has gone forth from Him: this is a first principle.

the thing has not departed from Him; this, then, is grounding.

وإن أردتم جواباً واحداً فقفوا

وإن أردتم جواباً واحداً فقفوا

هنا فما هذه قيلَ التماثيل

هنا فما هذه قيلَ التماثيل

And if you seek a single answer, then stand still

And if you wish for a single answer, then stop

here, for it was said: “What are these statues?”

here: 'What, then, are these?' It was said: 'Statues.'

معنى يراد ومعنى لا يراد سرت

معنى يراد ومعنى لا يراد سرت

حقائق الكل فيما فيه تكميل

حقائق الكل فيما فيه تكميل

One meaning is intended, another is not; there flowed

A meaning is intended, and a meaning is not intended; there flowed

the realities of all through that wherein completion lies.

the realities of the whole through that in which there is completion.