دع المنكرين الجاحدين فإنهم

ستائرنا اللاتي لحجب الأجانبِ

Leave the deniers and disavowers, for they are

our veils, meant to screen out outsiders,

من الغيب مدت بالكثافة وهي من

تجلى اسمه الستار رب المواهب

stretched out from the unseen in dense form; and they arise from

the manifestation of His name, the Veiler, Lord of gifts.

فصان بهم كالدر في صدف السوى

وكالعين بالأجفان تحت الحواجب

Thus He protected us through them, like pearls in the shell of otherness,

and like an eye guarded by eyelids beneath the brows.

ولا ملِكُ إلا وحجّابه به

تحف اشتمالا بالقنا والقاضب

No king exists but his chamberlains about him

encircle him closely with lances and keen blades.

وللكنز أرصادٌ وفيه طلاسم

يصان بها في الناس عن نيل طالب

And a treasure has guardians, and within it are talismans,

by which it is protected among people from a seeker's grasp.

صدقت هم الحساد نار قلوبهم

لقد نفحت من عودنا بالأطايب

You spoke truly: they are the envious; the fire of their hearts

has indeed wafted sweet fragrances from our aloeswood.

وصان بهم عنهم لباب علومنا

إله البرايا بالقشور السوالب

And through them He kept the kernel of our knowledge from them—

the God of all creatures, through husks that deprive them.

وقد ذادهم عن ورد حوض نبينا

لدينا بتبديل من الوهم غالب

And indeed He kept them from drinking at our Prophet's pool,

here with us, through an overpowering alteration born of illusion.

خيالات أفكار من الغيب سلطت

ملائكة منهم بهم في تناسب

Fancies of thought were unleashed from the unseen

by angels from them, through them, in fitting correspondence.

ويخبث أو يزكو من الأرض نبعُها

على قدرها وهو اختلاف المشارب

And the water springing from the earth is foul or pure,

according to its quality; such is the diversity of drinking sources.