تعاليت يا باقي بلا أمَدِيّةٍ

تعاليت يا باقي بلا أمَدِيّةٍ

كما كنت قبل القبل في الأزلية

كما كنت قبل القبل في الأزلية

Exalted are You, O Everlasting One, without temporal limit,

Come, O Everlasting One, without limitation,

as You were before the before, in beginningless eternity.

As You were before all time in eternity.

وجودك ربي واجب لا لمنتهى

وجودك ربي واجب لا لمنتهى

يقدر بالأزمان والعددية

يقدر بالأزمان والعددية

Your existence, my Lord, is necessary, with no endpoint

Your existence, my Lord, is necessary, not finite,

measured by spans of time and numerical reckoning.

To be measured by eras or numerals.

بقاؤك يا باقي بقاء لذاته

بقاؤك يا باقي بقاء لذاته

وكل بقاء تحته تحت غاية

وكل بقاء تحته تحت غاية

Your abiding, O Everlasting One, is abiding by its own essence,

Your permanence, O Everlasting One, is of Your essence,

and every abiding beneath it is bound by a limit.

While all permanence is under an aim.

وبالحق يغني الخلق والحق قائم

وبالحق يغني الخلق والحق قائم

تعالى بلا ابقاء شيء مثبت

تعالى بلا ابقاء شيء مثبت

And through the Truth He enriches creation, while the Truth abides.

And by the truth, You suffice the creation, and the truth remains,

Exalted is He, without keeping any established thing in being.

Transcendent without affirming a thing.

وتنصرم الآباد والحق ثابت

وتنصرم الآباد والحق ثابت

كما كان قبل القبل لا لنهاية

كما كان قبل القبل لا لنهاية

And the ages come to an end, while the Truth stands firm,

And ages pass away while the truth stays,

as He was before the before, with no end.

As it was before all time, without an end.

ومن قدر الآباد كان بقاؤه

ومن قدر الآباد كان بقاؤه

لغايتها من حالة مستحيلة

لغايتها من حالة مستحيلة

And for Him who ordained the ages, that His abiding

Whoever deems ages to be permanent,

should end at their limit is an impossible state.

Their permanence is an impossible state.

وما الأبد الفاني وما هو دائر

وما الأبد الفاني وما هو دائر

عليه سوى آثار باقي الألوهة

عليه سوى آثار باقي الألوهة

And perishing eternity and whatever revolves

For what is mortal forever, and what encircles it,

around it are but traces of the Everlasting Divine One.

Except traces of the Everlasting Divinity?

بقاء قديم لا يجدده بقا

بقاء قديم لا يجدده بقا

ولا تتقضاه قضايا الخليقة

ولا تتقضاه قضايا الخليقة

A beginningless abiding, renewed by no further abiding,

An ancient permanence, no permanence renews it,

nor brought to an end by the events of creation.

Nor do the decrees of creation exhaust it.

بقاء قديم يهلك الكل قبله

بقاء قديم يهلك الكل قبله

ويبقى بلا شرط ولا متوية

ويبقى بلا شرط ولا متوية

A beginningless abiding: all things perish before it,

An ancient permanence that destroys all before it,

and it abides without condition or temporal qualification.

And remains without condition or change.

بسر البقاء المستمر لذاته

بسر البقاء المستمر لذاته

تدارك الهي كشف ضري ومحنتي

تدارك الهي كشف ضري ومحنتي

By the mystery of the abiding that endures of itself,

By the secret of permanence, continuous in Your essence,

hasten, my God, the lifting of my affliction and my ordeal.

My God, reveal and relieve my affliction and trial.

أنا عبدك الفاني القليل بقاؤه

أنا عبدك الفاني القليل بقاؤه

تول حياتي ما بقيت بنظرة

تول حياتي ما بقيت بنظرة

I am Your mortal servant, whose abiding is brief;

I am Your ephemeral servant, brief in permanence,

watch over my life, as long as I remain, with a glance.

Take care of my life for as long as I remain with a glance.