عظمت عظيم الذات لا لبداية

ولا أجل يقضى على العظيمة

Exalted are You, great in essence, without beginning.

Nor is an appointed end decreed for Your greatness.

عظمت عظيم الشأن والجد والثنا

فلا منتهى كنه ولا درك نهية

Exalted are You, great in station, majesty, and praise.

So Your essence has no ultimate limit, nor can the intellect grasp it.

عظمت عن المقدار والحد والفنا

وتعظيم أغيار وإدراك رؤية

Exalted are You beyond measure, limit, and annihilation,

And beyond others' veneration and perception by sight.

عظمت عظيم القهر في عظموته

تسبحك الأشياء تسبيح فطرة

Exalted are You, great in the grandeur of Your overpowering might.

All things glorify You through their innate nature.

عظمت عن التعظيم من ذات كائن

فما قدر تعظيمي وما وسع لهجتي

Exalted are You beyond the veneration of any being.

What, then, is my veneration worth, and what is the reach of my utterance?

وجوب الوجود الحق للذات موجب

لك العظم الباقي على السرمدية

The necessity of the Essence's true existence entails

Your greatness, enduring for all eternity.

وأمرك بالتعظيم للعبد منة

ليكسبه التعظيم أعظم رتبة

And Your command to the servant to venerate You is a favor,

So that veneration may earn him the highest rank.

ولولا امتثالي الأمر نزهت قدر ما

لحقك من عظم عن الناطقية

And were it not for my obedience to the command, I would deem the measure of

The greatness belonging to You beyond the reach of speech.

وكان كفى بي يا عظيم معظما

إذا تاه عقلي في مجاهل حيرتي

And I would have sufficed, O Great One, as one who venerates You,

When my mind lost its way in the trackless wastes of my bewilderment.

نعم تاه عقلي فهو في التيه دأبه

وأوقفه الأعظام دون الحقيقة

Yes, my mind has lost its way; wandering is its constant habit,

And reverence has halted it short of the truth.

فلا غيب مشهود ولا كنه مدرك

ولا عظم محدود ولا وهم فكرة

Thus the unseen is not beheld, nor the essence comprehended;

Nor is greatness bounded, nor can thought conceive it.