خيطان خيط أبيض وهو الوجودْ

والعدم الأسود يبدو ويعودْ

Two threads - one white, which is existence

And the black non-existence, appearing and returning

كلاهما كلمع برق ظاهر

لعارف محقق له الشهود

Both are like the flash of lightning, manifest

To the knower of truth, for whom there is witnessing

حياكة الحق لثوب خلقه

يقذف أمره لأنواع الحدود

The weaving of the Truth into the garment of His creation

His command casts forth into types of limitations

ثوب طويل وعريض واسع

يلبسه الحق بنا شكل البرود

A lengthy, wide, expansive garment

Worn by the Truth upon us in the form of coolness

وليس غير الأبيض الخيط الذي

هو الوجود الحق من فجر العمود

And there is nothing other than the white thread

Which is existence, the Real, from the dawn of pillars

وقد أبيح الأكل والشرب لنا

حتى نرى البياض من خيط الوجود

And eating and drinking has been made lawful for us

So that we may see the whiteness from the thread of existence

فإن رأيناه فلا أكل ولا

شرب ولكن صفة الرب الصمود

For if we do see it, then no eating and no

Drinking, but the quality of the All-Sustaining Lord

إلى غروب نوره عنا وعن

جميع ما نراه من بيض وسود

Until the setting of His light from us and from

All that we see of white and black

قولوا معي تبارك الله الذي

له الصيام وبه يجزي الوفود

Say with me: Blessed is God, to Whom

Belongs fasting, and through Whom delegates return

كما أتانا في حديث المصطفى

بالخبر القدسي عن رب ودود

As the Chosen One narrated to us in the

Sacred hadith from the Lord, The Gentle Friend