1. ويا قادراً بالذات لا بمغاير

    قديم يحل الذات يدعى بقدرة

    And O You, powerful by Your very essence, not through something distinct—

    something eternal, inhering in the essence and called “power”—

  2. قدرت بلا ايجاب معنى لقدرة

    يغاير سلب العجز في المعنوية

    You are powerful without positing for power a meaning

    distinct in significance from the negation of incapacity.

  3. وكل صفات اللّه ليست مزيدة

    وعين التزام الفقر قبل المزيدة

    None of God's attributes is additional to His essence;

    and the very admission of dependence precedes those additions.

  4. قدرت على الأشياء لا بشريطة

    بقيدها الامكان للحدثية

    You have power over things, subject to no condition,

    their coming into being bounded by possibility.

  5. وليس امتناع السلب عن ضد قدرة

    ولكن سمات العجز للمستحيلة

    Nor does the impossibility of negation arise from a lack of power;

    rather, the marks of incapacity belong to impossible things.

  6. بقدرتك العظمى على كل حادث

    وتأثيراتها بالحكمة الأزلية

    By Your supreme power over all that comes into being,

    and its workings through eternal wisdom,

  7. باقدارك المخلوق من حيث كسبه

    بلا حظ تفويض ولا جبرية

    by Your empowering the creature in its acquisition of deeds,

    without any share of delegated control or compulsion,

  8. بسرك في الأقدار تجري كما تشا

    ولات مجال لاعتراض لمية

    by Your mystery in the decrees, which flow as You will—

    there is no room to question why—

  9. تكنفني عجزي الذي هو مركزي

    وكان احتيالي سلب حولي وقوتي

    my helplessness, which is my very center, has hemmed me in,

    and my recourse was to disclaim my own might and strength.

  10. فهب لي على الشيطان والنفس قدرة

    وإن لم تقدرني فيما بؤس هلكتي

    So grant me power over Satan and the self;

    and if You do not empower me, how wretched my ruin!

  11. وهب لي اقتداراً يظهر العدل مطلقاً

    تقوم به في محق ذي الجور دولتي

    And grant me mastery that makes justice manifest without restriction,

    through which my dominion may stand, effacing the oppressor.