1. إن بحر الوجود بالإختلاجِ

    لم يزل مكثراً من الأمواجِ

    Indeed, the sea of existence, through its surging,

    has never ceased producing waves in abundance.

  2. واسمها الكائنات حساً وعقلاً

    في نهار يضي وليل داجي

    And their name is “beings,” to sense and intellect,

    in a day that shines and a dark night.

  3. لا تظن الوجود زاد وهذا

    غير أنواع زينة وابتهاج

    Do not think existence has increased, or that this is

    anything but forms of adornment and delight.

  4. عدمٌ كلُّ ما ترى فتحقق

    بوجود في ظلمة كالسراج

    All that you see is nonbeing; so attain certainty

    of existence amid darkness, like a lamp.

  5. عينته شؤونه وهي منه

    وبها بعضه لبعض يناجي

    Its modes have given it definite form, and they come from it;

    through them, one part of it communes with another.

  6. عظم الأمر وهو باطن خلق

    وهو عين الأفراد والأزواج

    Momentous is the matter; it is creation’s inner reality,

    and it is the very essence of individuals and pairs.

  7. قف هنا عند وحدة الأمر واشهد

    كثرة الخلق عين ما أنت راجي

    Stop here, at the oneness of the matter, and witness

    that creation’s multiplicity is the very thing you hope for.

  8. واحد أظهر المراتب منه

    في حساب الألوف للمحتاج

    One has brought forth the ranks from itself,

    in the reckoning of thousands, for the one in need.

  9. إن ترده في كل شيء تجده

    واحداً ظاهراً بغير علاج

    If you seek it in everything, you will find it

    one, manifest without effort.

  10. فانظر الرتبة التي هو فيها

    ثم دعها وكنه بالإمتزاج

    So look at the rank in which it is,

    then leave that rank, and be existence itself through mingling.

  11. وليكن ظاهرا بما أنت فيه

    ظاهر فهو مادح أو هاجي

    And let it be manifest through that in which you are

    manifest; thus it is a praiser or a satirist.

  12. وعليك الحكم الذي منه باد

    لا عليه فهالكٌ أو ناجي

    And upon you falls the judgment that appears from it,

    not upon it—so you are doomed or saved.

  13. صور تارة نقول وطوراً

    لمعات من نوره الوهاج

    At times we call them forms, and at other times,

    flashes from its blazing light.

  14. إن تكن عارفاً عذرتَ قصوراً

    في كلامي ولم تقل باحتجاج

    If you are one who knows, you will excuse shortcomings

    in my words, and will not raise objections.

  15. وإذا كنت جاهلاً فتوقى

    حي ميت من هذه الأمواج

    And if you are ignorant, beware

    of one alive yet dead among these waves.