سبحان من وجب الوجود لذاته

للذات لا لوجود مخلوقاته

Glory be to Him whose existence is necessary through His very essence—

for the Essence itself, not for the existence of His creatures.

وجب الوجود له بما هو أهله

من مقتضى أسمائه وصفاته

Existence is necessarily His, in keeping with what befits Him,

as entailed by His names and attributes.

وجب الوجود لذي الجلال بشرط لا

ولو انجلى بوجود موجداته

Existence belongs necessarily to the Lord of Majesty, unconditioned,

even if it is disclosed through the existence of the beings He brings forth.

وجب الوجود لذي الجلال مقدساً

عن شائبات النقص في سبحاته

Existence belongs necessarily to the Lord of Majesty, sanctified

above every taint of imperfection amid His radiant glories.

وجب الوجود له بغير معلل

لوجوده أو موجب لثباته

Existence is necessarily His, without any cause

of His existence or any ground establishing it.

وجب الوجود لذي ألالوهة مطلقاً

في قدسه عن كل تقييداته

Existence belongs necessarily and absolutely to the Possessor of divinity,

in His holiness, beyond every limitation.

وجب الوجود له غنياً نفسه

من حيث وحدته ورتبة ذاته

Existence is necessarily His, self-sufficient in Himself,

by virtue of His oneness and the rank of His essence.

وجب الاله ولا تعين ممكن

إلا تعينه بمعلوماته

God necessarily exists, while no possible thing is determinate

except through its determination among the things He knows.

ما زاد حسق وجوبه متعين

بوجوبه من جنس مصنوعاته

Nothing beyond the [ḥ-s-q] of His necessity is determinate

by His necessity among the class of His handiworks.

لم تصدر الآثار حق وجوبه

إلا دلالتها لتأثيراته

Effects did not issue by the right of His necessity

except as indications of His acts of effecting.

إيجابها حدث ولا تأثير في

ثبت الوجوب الحق من اثباته

To necessitate them would be an originated event; nor can any effect touch

that in which true necessity is established by its affirmation.

آثار امكان الوجوب لغيره

جل الوجوب الحق عن علاته

The marks of possibility show necessity belonging to another;

true necessity is exalted above its causes.

أعطى الوجود لممكن مختاره

في حد علته ومعلولاته

He granted existence to a possible thing of His choosing,

within the bounds of its cause and the things caused by it.

حقت له أحدية في ذاته

وثبوته ووجوبه وصفاته

Absolute oneness is truly His in His essence,

His subsistence, His necessity, and His attributes.

بحت القداسة في مقام وجوده

عما يحد وجود مخترعاته

Pure holiness, in the station of His existence, transcends

whatever bounds the existence of His inventions.

فوجوده للذات ليس لمقتض

ووجودهن يعد من آياته

His existence belongs to the Essence, not to any determining cause,

whereas their existence is counted among His signs.

ووجوده صفة لعز كماله

ينهي إليها ما يليق بذاته

His existence is an attribute of the might of His perfection,

to which all that befits His essence ultimately leads.

ووجوده سلب لضد وجوده

والشيء معتبر بضدياته

His existence negates the contrary of His existence,

for a thing is apprehended in relation to its contraries.

ووجوده سلب انتهاء وجوده

يقضي الوجوب محال نفي ثباته

His existence negates any end to His existence;

necessity judges the denial of His subsistence impossible.

ووجود مبدعه وترك وجوده

فعل وترك من تجلياته

The existence of what He creates—and its being left uncreated—

are alike an act or a forbearance among His self-disclosures.

وبفيض مرتبة الوجود تقيد ال

امكان في إيجاد ماهياته

Through the effusion of the rank of existence, poss-

ibility is conditioned in the bringing-forth of its quiddities.

فيض اختيار ليس علياً ولا

طبعاً يؤثر في طبيعياته

It is an effusion of choice, neither causally compelled nor

a natural force acting upon natural things.

ما حيلة الامكان حيث كمونه

وبروزه من بعض مقتضياته

What recourse has possibility, whether latent

or emerging through some of its entailments?

في فقره الامكان تحت وجوبه

متقيداً بقيود محتملاته

In its poverty, possibility lies beneath His necessity,

bound by the constraints of what it may admit.

ووجود محتمل الوجود بخلقه

وبأمره أثر اختيارياته

The existence of what can exist comes through His creating,

and, by His command, is an effect of His choices.

والفيض بالتعليل يوجب كثرة

القدماء في نفس القديم بذاته

An effusion governed by causation would require a multiplicity

of eternal beings within the One eternal through His essence.

والترك دون الاختيار لعاجز

في ذاته من فعل مقدوراته

And refraining without choice belongs to one incapable

in himself of acting upon the things within his power.

وقضية الامكان شاهدة على

اتقان مختار لمصنوعاته

The very condition of possibility bears witness to

the perfect craftsmanship of a chooser in His handiworks.

ظهر اختيار الحق في وجه التنا

قض والتضادد بين مخترعاته

The Real’s choice appears in the face of contra-

diction and opposition among His inventions,

وتغاير الابداع تحت شؤونه

في حصر كن طوعاً لتقديراته

and in the diversity of creation beneath His governance,

all confined within “Be,” obedient to His decrees.

لا قابلية في وجود ممكن

لسوى اختيار الحق كينوناته

No receptivity exists within a possible being

for anything but the Real’s choice of its modes of being.

ومعلل فرداً يعلل مفرداً

لا يقتضي تعليل معلولاته

A single cause may give rise to a single effect;

it does not require a causal explanation of all its effects.

والنقض والابرام والتصريف وال

تدبير للمختار من آياته

Unmaking, confirming, directing, and gov-

ernance are among the signs of the One who chooses.

وتباين الاقدار حسب شؤونه

من عالم الجبروت في حضراته

The differing measures accord with His affairs,

from the realm of divine omnipotence throughout His presences.

للواجب المختار مظهر حكمة

عن قدرة وجبت لوحدة ذاته

They are a manifestation of wisdom belonging to the Necessary Chooser,

arising from a power required by the oneness of His essence.

يا من تجلى بالوجوب وجوده

في نور حكمته وظل صفاته

O You whose existence is disclosed as necessary

in the light of His wisdom and the shade of His attributes;

يا من تجلى بالالوهة واجباً

من حيث مظهره على كلماته

O You disclosed through divinity as the Necessary One,

through His manifestation upon His words;

يا من تجلى بالوجوب مدبراً

جزئي مبدعه وكلياته

O You disclosed through necessity, governing

the particulars and universals of what He creates;

يا من تجلى من سنا أخلاقه

وعظيم رحمته وتبريكاته

O You disclosed through the radiance of His qualities,

the greatness of His mercy and His blessings;

يا من تجلى في سياسة ملكه

واللطف بالمخلوق في حالاته

O You disclosed in the governance of His kingdom

and in gentleness toward the creature in all its states;

يا من تجلى في مشاهد حبه

ببلائه في أهل تقريباته

O You disclosed in the scenes of His love

through His trials among those He draws near;

يا من تجلى في نعيم عدائه

بوجوب حكمته بمقتضياته

O You disclosed even in the ease enjoyed by His enemies,

through the necessity of His wisdom and all it entails;

يا من تجلى في بدائع صنعه

بعجائب الاتقان في ذراته

O You disclosed in the wonders of His workmanship,

through marvels of perfection in its every particle;

يا من تجلى واحداً في ذاته

وصفاته في أي تعريفاته

O You disclosed as One in His essence

and His attributes, however they may be described;

يا من تجلى بالكمال وجوبه

في فعله ولذاته وصفاته

O You whose necessity is disclosed through perfection

in His act, His essence, and His attributes;

يا من تجلى بالجلال وجوبه

من حيث هيبته وعزة ذاته

O You whose necessity is disclosed through majesty,

through His awe and the might of His essence;

يا من تجلى بالجمال وجوبه

من حيث رأفته بمربوباته

O You whose necessity is disclosed through beauty,

through His tenderness toward those under His lordship;

يا من تجلى بانتفاء مثيله

في السلب عنه وفي اضافياته

O You disclosed through the absence of any peer,

in what is denied of Him and in His relational attributes;

يا من تجلى في مواجد أهله

بمسابح الأذواق في سبحاته

O You disclosed in the ecstasies of His people,

amid the swimming-grounds of spiritual tastes in His radiant glories;

يا من تجلى للنهى بفتوحه

وشوارق العرفان من فيضاته

O You disclosed to minds through His openings

and the dawning lights of gnosis from His effusions;

يا من تجلى للسرائر باطناً

بمواهب الامداد من نفحاته

O You inwardly disclosed to innermost hearts

through gifts of sustaining grace from His fragrant breaths;

يا من تجلى في قلوب شهوده

بشهود عزته وتمجيداته

O You disclosed in the hearts of His witnesses

through witnessing His might and glorifications;

يا من تجلى في مظاهر قدسه

عن دركه لذوي خصوصياته

O You disclosed in the manifestations of His holiness,

beyond the grasp even of those specially favored by Him;

يا من تجلى في قلوب العارفي

ن بما حباهم من لدنياته

O You disclosed in the hearts of the know-

ers through the gifts of direct divine knowledge He bestowed on them;

يا من تجلى للعقول بنوره

من حيث أغرقها ببحر صفاته

O You disclosed to intellects through His light,

inasmuch as He drowned them in the sea of His attributes;

يا من تجلى للفهوم فأدركت

أن ليس تدرك غير تسبيحاته

O You disclosed to understandings, which then perceived

that they apprehend nothing but His glorifications;

يا من تجلى بالمحامد مطلقاً

في جوده وشمول تكريماته

O You disclosed absolutely through every praise,

in His generosity and the all-embracing reach of His honors.

أوجدتني بشراً سوياً عاقلاً

ووهبت عقلي كل إدراكاته

You brought me forth as a sound, rational human being

and endowed my mind with all its powers of perception:

عبداً تقيده الضرورة عاجزاً

في أي طور من جميع جهاته

a servant constrained by necessity, powerless

in every phase and from every side;

عبداً يصرفه اقتدار الهه

بسكونه فقر وفي حركاته

a servant governed by the power of his God,

poor alike in his stillness and in his movements.

أوجدت عبدك واقتضيت نصيبه

بحياته الدنيا وبعد مماته

You brought Your servant forth and ordained his allotted share

in his life in this world and after his death.

حسبي وجودك من وجود قائم

بوجود ذاتك أصله في ذاته

Your existence suffices me above that of any being subsisting

through the existence of Your essence, though its root lies in itself.

لا يقتضي ضراً ونفعاً دون ما

تقضي به في دفعه وثباته

It can bring neither harm nor benefit apart from what

You decree concerning its removal and continuance.

أوجد بجاه وجودك الأنوار في

قلبي واسعدني بروح حياته

By the honor of Your existence, bring forth lights within

my heart, and gladden me with the spirit of its life.

يا حي يا قيوم عبدك معدم

من حسن عيشته ومن حسناته

O Ever-Living, O Self-Subsisting Sustainer—Your servant is destitute

of a good life and of good deeds.