عالم النطق عالم الأنفاسِ

عالم النطق عالم الأنفاسِ

خمر معنى واللفظ مثل الكأسِ

خمر معنى واللفظ مثل الكأسِ

The world of speech is the world of breaths:

The world of speech, the world of breaths

wine of meaning, and wording is like the cup.

The wine of meaning and words like cups

سنة الله في الذين مضوا إن

سنة الله في الذين مضوا إن

عرفوه به لطمس الحواس

عرفوه به لطمس الحواس

God's way with those gone before—if

God's way with those who passed away, if

they knew Him through Himself—was to efface the senses.

They knew Him through it, the senses are blurred

هذه هذه الحقيقة لا ما

هذه هذه الحقيقة لا ما

تجتنيه العقول بالإفتراس

تجتنيه العقول بالإفتراس

This, this is the reality—not what

This, this is the truth, not what

minds reap through predatory grasping.

Minds infer through imposition

سبقتنا أئمة الحق قوم

سبقتنا أئمة الحق قوم

رسخوا فيه كالجبال الرواسي

رسخوا فيه كالجبال الرواسي

The imams of the Real preceded us, a people

Our leaders in truth preceded us, people

firmly rooted in Him like firmly anchored mountains.

Who took root in it like firm mountains

فشربنا من سؤرهم وارتوينا

فشربنا من سؤرهم وارتوينا

وشممنا منهم شذا الأنفاس

وشممنا منهم شذا الأنفاس

So we drank of their leftover draught and slaked our thirst,

So we drank from their nectar and quenched our thirst

and from them inhaled the fragrance of breaths.

And smelled their exhilarating breaths

سادة الدين بالشريعة قاموا

سادة الدين بالشريعة قاموا

لا بفهمٍ فيها ولا بقياس

لا بفهمٍ فيها ولا بقياس

Masters of the faith, they upheld the sacred law,

The masters of religion stood by the Sharia

not through understanding it, nor through analogy,

Not by understanding it or analogy

بل بمولاهمُ المهيمن فيهم

بل بمولاهمُ المهيمن فيهم

عبدوه كشفاً بغير التباس

عبدوه كشفاً بغير التباس

but through their Lord, the Guardian within them.

But by their Master, the Guardian in them

They worshipped Him through unveiling, without confusion.

They worshipped Him plainly without confusion

إذ هو الحي والعوالم موتى

إذ هو الحي والعوالم موتى

يدّعون الحياة بالوسواس

يدّعون الحياة بالوسواس

For He is the Living One, and the worlds are dead,

For He is the Living and the worlds are dead

claiming life through delusive whisperings.

Claiming life through delusion

وهو محض الوجود والكل فان

وهو محض الوجود والكل فان

فيه طراً من فرعه للأساس

فيه طراً من فرعه للأساس

And He is pure existence, while all is passing away

He is sheer existence and all else perishes

in Him, altogether, from its branch to its foundation.

In Him a hint for the branch to the root

وإذا كنت أنت والكل لا شي

وإذا كنت أنت والكل لا شي

ء فقل لي من أنت يا ابن الناس

ء فقل لي من أنت يا ابن الناس

And if you and all are nothing,

And if you and all are nothing

then tell me: who are you, O son of humankind?

Tell me who you are, O son of mankind

أنت تقديره وتصويره في

أنت تقديره وتصويره في

علمه سابقاً وما هو ناسي

علمه سابقاً وما هو ناسي

You are His ordaining and His fashioning in

You are His decree and depiction

His knowledge beforehand, and He does not forget.

In His preceding knowledge, and He's not forgetful

ثم لما تكلم الحق عن عل

ثم لما تكلم الحق عن عل

م تبينت بالكلام المواسي

م تبينت بالكلام المواسي

Then, when the Real spoke from knowledge,

Then when the Truth spoke of

you became manifest through the consoling speech.

Knowledge, the consolations became clear

وهو حق والعلم حق وفيه

وهو حق والعلم حق وفيه

كل هذا الترتيب في الأجناس

كل هذا الترتيب في الأجناس

And He is real, and knowledge is real, and within it

He is the Truth, and knowledge is truth, and in it

lies all this ordering among the kinds.

Is all this order among humankind

وكذاك الكلام حق وعنه

وكذاك الكلام حق وعنه

أنت باد ونوره لك كاسي

أنت باد ونوره لك كاسي

And likewise, speech is real, and from it

And so too speech is truth, and about it

you appear, and its light clothes you.

You perish while its light cloaks you

فإذا قال كن تكن بوجود

فإذا قال كن تكن بوجود

هو قول الحق الشديد الباس

هو قول الحق الشديد الباس

So when He says, 'Be,' you come to be through an existence

So when He says "Be" and it becomes with existence

that is the utterance of the Real, mighty in power.

It's the saying of the Truth, severe and firm

ما تغيرت أنت عن عدم في

ما تغيرت أنت عن عدم في

علمه بل ما زلت في الإنطماس

علمه بل ما زلت في الإنطماس

You have not changed from nonexistence in

You did not change from non-existence in

His knowledge; rather, you remain in effacement.

His knowledge, but remained obscured

لا ولا الحق قد تغير عما

لا ولا الحق قد تغير عما

هو فيه بما لديك يواسي

هو فيه بما لديك يواسي

No, nor has the Real changed from the state

No, nor did the Truth change from what

He is in, offering solace through what you have.

He was in it, by what consoles you

عدم ظاهر بنور وجود

عدم ظاهر بنور وجود

ووجود بغيره في التباس

ووجود بغيره في التباس

Nonexistence made manifest by the light of existence,

A non-existence apparent with existence's light

and existence obscured by what is other than itself.

And existence through it in confusion