Claude 2

  1. نحن قوم متنا به وفنينا

    بتجلي وجوده الحق فينا

    We are a people who found death in love with Him,

    In the manifestation of His true existence in us,

  2. وحُشرنا إليه عمن سواه

    ودخلنا جنانه خالدينا

    And we were gathered to Him, away from all others,

    And we entered His eternal Gardens.

  3. قمر لا نضام فيه اجتلاء

    بينته ذواتنا تبيينا

    A moon in which our glory never ceases,

    Our beings clarified His essence,

  4. وإذا أظلم الكيان عليه

    أطلعته الغيوب حيناً فحينا

    And if existence darkened around Him,

    The unseen illuminated Him now and then.

  5. يا أخلاي هذه نفحات

    من رياض بها إليه أتينا

    O my companions! These are breezes

    From gardens we came to Him in,

  6. فلتشمّوا الأقاح والورد منها

    والخزامى والآس والياسمينا

    So smell the buds and roses from it,

    And jasmine, myrtle and jessamine.

  7. حضرات بها الوجود تجلَّى

    زيَّنَتْه لمن يرى تزيينا

    Presences in which existence was manifested,

    Adorned for those who see, adorned,

  8. قد حمدنا السرى بهن إليها

    حيث منها جئنا المقام الأمينا

    We praised the divine journey to them,

    From where we came to the trusted station.

  9. وهي أم الكتاب سبع المثاني

    نزلت مرتين عقلاً ودينا

    It is the Mother of the Book, the seven paired,

    Revealed twice, intellectually and religiously,

  10. فرقينا صفاتها درجات

    وشربنا تسنيمها الصِرفَ عينا

    We ascended its attributes and degrees,

    And we drank its pure, cool air.

  11. وتلونا آياتها وقرأنا

    هنَّ حاميم والكتابَ المبينا

    And we recited its verses and read them,

    They are passionate and the clear Book,

  12. وبدت عندنا معاني معانٍ

    لمعان بذاتها تبتدينا

    And meanings of meanings appeared to us,

    For meanings initiating its essence.

  13. علمنا والكتاب والوصف منها

    وهي ذات وراء ذا لن تبينا

    We learned, and the Book and the description from it,

    While it is an essence beyond an essence that will not be clarified,

  14. كيف في الكل لن تبين وبانت

    وهي نور لما يزل مستبينا

    How will it not be clarified in all, and be manifested,

    While it is a light that never ceases to be evident?

  15. واعتباراتها الثلاث ظلام

    زائل عندها عياناً يقينا

    And its three perspectives are darkness,

    Vanishing in its clear, certain essence,

  16. ثلّثوها حقيقةً لا اعتباراً

    ثم ضلّوا ونحن فيها هدينا

    They divided it essentially, not perspectively,

    Then they went astray while we were guided in it.

  17. فاعرف الكل هكذا وتحقيق

    تعرف الحق والكفور اللعينا

    So know existence like this and realize,

    You will know the Truth and the damned liars,