1. كلى تفنيه وتوجدُهُ

    ولقاك فنائي موعدُهُ

    My whole being You annihilate and bring into being.

    And my annihilation is the appointed hour of meeting You.

  2. ظهرت بتجليك الأشيا

    والأمر بها مدت يده

    Through Your self-disclosure, things appeared.

    And through them the Command's hand was extended.

  3. وسواك رآك وضل فلم

    يقدر يهديه مرشده

    And one other than You saw You and strayed, so

    his guide could not guide him.

  4. يا طلعة وجه أبيضه

    للغافل عنه أسوده

    O radiance of a face whose whiteness

    is blackness to one heedless of it!

  5. أنت المأمول لكل فتى

    ومراد القلب ومقصده

    You are the hope of every youth,

    and the heart's desire and its aim.

  6. وإنِ الأبصارُ سواك رأت

    ونفت لظهورك تجحده

    And even if eyes see other than You,

    and deny, disavowing Your manifestation,

  7. هذا مدد باق أبداً

    من حضرة غيب يورده

    this is an influx that endures forever,

    which He brings from the Presence of the unseen.

  8. لا تقدر تقطعه أممٌ

    تبغي فيه أو تحسده

    No nations can cut it off,

    though they transgress against it or envy it.

  9. والغيب تبدّى في صور

    من ينظر فيها يشهده

    And the unseen revealed itself in forms;

    whoever looks into them beholds it.

  10. يهدي قوماً ويضل كما

    يُشقي من شاء ويسعده

    He guides a people and leads astray, just as

    He makes whomever He wills wretched and makes him happy.

  11. والقدرة أجمع قدرته

    فيها لا زال تفرده

    And all power is His power;

    His uniqueness within it never ceases.

  12. والكل بها قد قام إذا

    ظهرت في شيء تنجده

    And all things subsist through it; when

    it appears in a thing, it comes to its aid.

  13. وبها قد كُوِّن كل فتى

    وبها تفنيه وتفسده

    And through it every youth was brought into being,

    and through it You annihilate him and destroy him.

  14. وبقدر الإستعداد ترى

    في الشيء فيظهر موجده

    And in proportion to receptivity, it is seen

    in a thing, and so its Maker becomes manifest.

  15. يا نسمة أمر الحق هبي

    سراً في القلب تردده

    O breeze of the Real's command, blow

    secretly within the heart, making it echo.

  16. والحضرة بثي رونقها

    فينا إنا نتودده

    And spread the Presence's splendor

    within us, for we seek His affection.

  17. وإذا أنوار الحق بدت

    بالحق نراه فنعبده

    And when the lights of the Real appear,

    through the Real we see Him, and so worship Him.

  18. للجسم ركوع يركعه

    للقلب سجود يسجده

    The body has a bow it makes;

    the heart has a prostration it performs.

  19. والعالم ليل أجمعه

    يا غفلة عبد يرقده

    And the world is night, all of it.

    O heedlessness of a servant whom it lulls to sleep!

  20. فاحذر يلهيك تلبسه

    والظاهر فيك تجدده

    So beware lest its guise distract you;

    what appears within you is its renewal.

  21. واظهر بالحمد له أبداً

    قد فاز به من يحمده

    And come forth with praise for Him forever;

    whoever praises Him has indeed triumphed through Him.