وجودي وجود الكائنات وإنما

وجودي وجود الكائنات وإنما

وجود جميع الكائنات وجودي

وجود جميع الكائنات وجودي

My existence is the existence of beings, and indeed

My existence is the existence of all beings

The existence of all beings is my existence alone.

Yet the existence of all beings is my existence

ولكنهم غيري وإنيَ غيرهم

ولكنهم غيري وإنيَ غيرهم

فحقق كلامي واعتبر بشهودي

فحقق كلامي واعتبر بشهودي

But they are other than I, and I am other than they;

But they are other than me, and I am other than them

So verify my words, and reflect upon my witnessing.

So understand my words and observe my witness

وجود قديم واحد عنه فائض

وجود قديم واحد عنه فائض

سواء من الأشياء فيضة جود

سواء من الأشياء فيضة جود

A single, eternal existence, from which flows

There is one ancient existence from which overflows

An outpouring of things alike, an effusion of bounty.

Equally, the effusion of existence upon things

ولم ينقسم حاشاه بل هو مطلقٌ

ولم ينقسم حاشاه بل هو مطلقٌ

أراد بأن يبدو لنا بقيود

أراد بأن يبدو لنا بقيود

And it was not divided—far be that from it! Rather, it is absolute;

It has not divided, God forbid, but rather it is absolute

It willed to appear to us with limitations.

It willed to appear to us with limits

فلاح بما في نفسه هو لم يزل

فلاح بما في نفسه هو لم يزل

يصوّر من بيض هناك وسود

يصوّر من بيض هناك وسود

So it shone forth through what, within itself, it has ever

So it manifested with what is in itself, it has not ceased

Been fashioning there—white forms and black.

Imagining from the white there, and the black

وليس لأنواع التصاوير كلها

وليس لأنواع التصاوير كلها

وجود سواه في شقاً وسعود

وجود سواه في شقاً وسعود

And all the kinds of images have no

And for the types of imaginations, all of them

Existence apart from it, in misery or good fortune.

There is no existence other than it, in ease or hardship

فقد أوجد الأشياء وهو وجودها

فقد أوجد الأشياء وهو وجودها

به وجدت محدودةً بحدود

به وجدت محدودةً بحدود

For indeed it brought things into being, and it is their existence;

So it created things and it is their existence

Through it they came to exist, delimited by bounds.

Through it they exist, bounded by limits

وهذا اعتبار العقل وهو الذي غدت

وهذا اعتبار العقل وهو الذي غدت

تناط بها الأحكام دون نفود

تناط بها الأحكام دون نفود

And this is the intellect's reckoning, by which they came

And this is the consideration of the intellect, which has become

To have judgments attached to them, without end.

The basis on which rulings are made, without faltering

ومن يتحقق بالوجود فإنه

ومن يتحقق بالوجود فإنه

يراه وجوداً في أجلِّ صمود

يراه وجوداً في أجلِّ صمود

And whoever realizes existence, indeed he

And whoever realizes the existence, he

Sees it as existence in the most sublime steadfastness.

Sees it as existence in the firmest endurance

وليس يرى الأشياء موجودة بها

وليس يرى الأشياء موجودة بها

ولكن يراها في انتفا وجحود

ولكن يراها في انتفا وجحود

And does not see things as existing by themselves,

And does not see things as existing through themselves

But sees them in nonexistence and denial.

Rather he sees them in bringing into being and annihilation

هو النور عنها قد أبان وعنه قد

هو النور عنها قد أبان وعنه قد

أبانت وكلٌّ ذو وفاً بعهود

أبانت وكلٌّ ذو وفاً بعهود

It is the light: it has revealed them, and they have

It is the Light through which they have become clear and through which

Revealed it; and each is faithful to covenants.

They have become clear, and each keeps true to promises

وكلٌّ على ما كان فيه ولم يزل

وكلٌّ على ما كان فيه ولم يزل

قديماً وهذا قول أشرف قود

قديماً وهذا قول أشرف قود

And each remains as it was, and has ever been,

And each remains as it has been and has not ceased

From eternity; and this is the saying of the noblest guides—

To be eternal, and this is the most noble saying

مقالة آباءٍ لنا في طريقنا

مقالة آباءٍ لنا في طريقنا

كرامٍ رضعنا ثديَهم وجدود

كرامٍ رضعنا ثديَهم وجدود

The saying of fathers of ours upon our path—

The words of our honorable forefathers have become

Noble ones whose breast we suckled—and of grandfathers.

For us on our path, nurses whom we sucked their breasts and elbows.