صحف الفضاء لما نقول دفاتر

فوق الهياء وذاك سر ظاهر

The pages of space are registers of what we say,

Above [an unclear term], and that is a manifest mystery.

لا تنس من عكس الصدى معنى به

لا ولي الفهوم من العلوم اشائر

Do not overlook a meaning in the echo's reflection:

For those endowed with understanding, it holds signs of knowledge.

فالكون بين العالمين صحيفة

وكلامنا فيها اليها صائر

For the cosmos is a page between the worlds,

And our speech, within it, makes its way to it.

نفس يمد بمزجه لرقيقة

من ذا الفضاء لها هواء ناشر

A breath, through its mingling, extends into a subtle layer

Of this space, which air spreads abroad.

فتراه يكتب في نسيج غامض

يخفى علينا حيث يخفى الحاصر

So you see it writing in an obscure weave,

Hidden from us, where what contains it is hidden.

فاذا نسجت القول في رق وقد

حصرت ضوابطه اتاك يسامر

Then, when you weave speech on parchment, and have

Fixed its bounds, it comes to converse with you by night.

رق مع الملكين منه وثيقة

تبدو غدا فالخافيات ظواهر

A parchment with the two angels is a record of it,

To appear tomorrow; then hidden things become manifest.

وبهذه الدنيا لكل حقيقة

انموذج لفعال ربك ذا كر

And in this world, for every reality,

There is a model recalling your Lord's deeds.

ذا حافظ الاصوات انبأ نابما

هو في غد من ذي الحقائق صادر

This keeper of sounds has told us what

Will emerge tomorrow from these realities.

رقت وثيقته فكانت دفترا

وبحصرها مزقن عنه ستائر

Its record grew thin and became a register,

And in confining it, veils were torn away from it.

فاتى يكلمنا بنغمة غيره

غاب الفعول وفعله هو حاضر

So it came to speak to us in another's tone;

The doer has vanished, yet his deed is present.

اثر بلا عين يترجم شاهدا

عن عين صاحبه وربك قادر

A trace without a physical presence speaks as a witness

To its owner's very person—and your Lord has power.

يأتيك رنان الصدى من موضع

عال وتسمعه وطرفك ناظر

The ringing echo comes to you from a place

On high; you hear it while your eye looks on.

وتعيد صوتك صفحة الجبل التي

شمخت ليفقه منك لب حائر

And your voice is returned by the mountain's face, which

Rose aloft so your bewildered mind might understand.

هذه اتصالات الوجود ببعضه

تبدى فنونا ما دراها القاصر

These are the connections between the parts of existence,

Revealing arts the limited mind has never known.

فالانطباع بنسبة استعداد ذر

ات الوجود تقوم عنه مظاهر

So imprinting depends on the receptiveness of the atoms

Of existence; manifestations arise from it.

شيء يقوم باخذ شكلك مثلما

شيءٌ لصوتك ناقل ومحاضر

One thing undertakes to capture your likeness, just as

Another conveys your voice and speaks.

والطبع للكلمات في سلم يد

ق ببلدة اخرى دليل باهر

And imprinting words on a scale [sense unclear], which rings

In another town, is a dazzling proof.

حكم اتصالات الوجود رقائق

هي في بطون الكائنات ضمائر

The wisdoms of existence's connections are subtleties;

They are secrets in the depths of beings.

يهدي العقول لها الآله لحكمة

فيرى من الصنع القديم سرائر

God guides minds toward them for a wise purpose,

So one sees secrets of the ancient handiwork.

سر لطيف في خيالك كم به

سير وقيعان وحي عامر

A subtle mystery lies in your imagination—how much it holds:

Journeys, plains, and a flourishing settlement!

تجلوه حافظة فنطقك مخبر

عنها ونجاب الخيال مخابر

Memory brings it to light, so your speech tells

Of it, and imagination's courier conveys the news.

هذا وجودك حكمه انموذج

فيه لسلسلة الوجود دوائر

This is your existence; its wisdoms form a model,

Within it lie circles of the chain of existence.

لم يخف عن مولاك من كل الذي

تجريه انت كبائر وصغائر

Nothing is hidden from your Lord of all that

You carry out—major sins and minor ones.

معدودة في علمه كلمتاتنا

صحف الفضاء لما تقول دفاتر

Counted in His knowledge are our words;

The pages of space are registers of what you say.