كتاب الله جامع كل شيء

كتاب الله جامع كل شيء

وسنة أحمد المختار شرحُ

وسنة أحمد المختار شرحُ

The Book of God encompasses everything,

The book of Allah encompasses all things

and the chosen Ahmad’s Sunna is its exposition.

And the Sunna of Ahmed the Chosen is an explanation

وشرحهما الفتوحات التي من

وشرحهما الفتوحات التي من

جناب القدس جاء بهن فتح

جناب القدس جاء بهن فتح

And the exposition of both is the Futuhat, which from

And their explanation is the openings which came

the holy Presence were brought by a spiritual opening

From the side of holiness, he brought them as conquest

لشيخ شيوخنا العربي من قد

لشيخ شيوخنا العربي من قد

أتانا منه فيض هدى ومنح

أتانا منه فيض هدى ومنح

to the master of our masters, al-ʿArabi, from whom

To our master Shaykh, the Arab whom we

an outpouring of guidance and gifts has reached us.

Received from him a flood of guidance and gift

بمحيى الدين يدعى حيث أحيى

بمحيى الدين يدعى حيث أحيى

لدين الله ذلك نعم مدح

لدين الله ذلك نعم مدح

He is called Muhyi al-Din, for he revived

Muhyi al-Din he is called, as he revived

God’s religion—what excellent praise that is!

The religion of Allah, that is excellent praise

فتوحات بها العلماء زادت

فتوحات بها العلماء زادت

علوماً نحو غيب الغيب تنحو

علوماً نحو غيب الغيب تنحو

Openings, through which scholars have grown

Openings through which the scholars increased

in knowledge, reach toward the unseen of the unseen.

Knowledge toward the unseen of the unseen they aim

بها الحيران للتحقيق يهدي

بها الحيران للتحقيق يهدي

وسكران الهوى والجهل يصحو

وسكران الهوى والجهل يصحو

Through them, the bewildered is guided to realization,

Through it the perplexed are guided to verification

and the one drunk on passion and ignorance grows sober.

And the drunk of passion and ignorance awaken

ولكن إن هداه الله حتى

ولكن إن هداه الله حتى

من الإنكار لوح النفس يمحو

من الإنكار لوح النفس يمحو

But only if God guides him, so that

But if Allah guides him so that

he clears the soul’s tablet of denial.

From denial the tablet of the soul is erased

ولا تعجب فإن كتاب ربي

ولا تعجب فإن كتاب ربي

به خسرت رجال وهو ربح

به خسرت رجال وهو ربح

And do not marvel, for the Book of my Lord—

And do not be surprised, for indeed the book of my Lord

through it some men have suffered loss, though it is gain.

Through it men lost and it is profit

وسنة أحمد المختار قوم

وسنة أحمد المختار قوم

بها هم في ظلام وهي صبح

بها هم في ظلام وهي صبح

And the chosen Ahmad’s Sunna—some people

And the Sunna of Ahmed the Chosen, a people

are in darkness through it, though it is dawn.

Through it they are in darkness and it is dawn

ولولا في أوانيهم ضلال

ولولا في أوانيهم ضلال

لما منهم ضلال كان نضح

لما منهم ضلال كان نضح

And were there no error in their vessels,

And if not for misguidance in their vessels

no error would have seeped from them.

No misguidance from them would have poured

ووالله العظيم يمين عبد

ووالله العظيم يمين عبد

صدوق ما عليه بذاك جنح

صدوق ما عليه بذاك جنح

And by God the Magnificent—the oath of a servant

By Allah the Almighty, the oath of an obedient slave

truthful, who bears no blame for it—

Truthful, he carries no deviation in that

أئمة ديننا ما صنفوا في

أئمة ديننا ما صنفوا في

شريعتنا كتلك ولا يصح

شريعتنا كتلك ولا يصح

the imams of our religion have composed nothing in

The imams of our religion did not compose in

our sacred law like it, nor is that possible.

Our Law the likes of that, nor is it sound

وكيف وقد حوت لعلوم رسم

وكيف وقد حوت لعلوم رسم

وكشف كله للناس نصح

وكشف كله للناس نصح

And how could they, when it embraces knowledge of outward form

And how could they when it contains principles

and unveiling, all of it sincere counsel for humankind?

And the whole of unveiling for people as advice

وفي الإسلام ليس لها نظير

وفي الإسلام ليس لها نظير

فيحوي ما حوت وهو الأصح

فيحوي ما حوت وهو الأصح

And in Islam it has no equal

And in Islam it has no equal

to encompass what it encompasses—and this is the soundest view.

In containing what it contains, and it is the soundest