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Water comes only from water,

إنما الماء من الماء روى

1. Water comes only from water,
And he whose doctrine this is, has what has been narrated.

١. إنما الماءُ من الماءِ روى
والذي مذهبُه ذا ما روي

2. A narrator has narrated, Aisha,
Among a people who were ignorant of what was narrated.

٢. قد روتْ ناسخةٌ عائشةٌ
عند قومٍ جهلوا ما قد روي

3. She only increased by what she mentioned,
The essence of wisdom, which is a strong proof.

٣. إنما زادتْ بما قد ذكرت
عين حكم وهو برهانٌ قوي

4. My intention, by Allah, one day, is to see
Him from whom I draw satisfaction being quenched.

٤. غرضي والله يوماً أن أرى
الذي بي من جواه يرتوي

5. And when I see him, I do not see him,
While he has an ardent desire contained within him.

٥. وإذا أبصرته لم أره
وهو ذو شوقٍ عليه يحتوي

6. I am not the literal letters in which he is contained,
Rather, I am the essence of the spiritual existence.

٦. ما أنا في ظاهر الحرف به
بل أنا عينُ الوجودِ المعنوي

7. None can see what troubles have befallen me,
Except an Arab person, a prophet.

٧. ما يرى ما قام بي من كَلَفٍ
غيرُ شخصٍ عربيّ نبوي

8. He is an obscure Persian symbol,
And he is a text with a person of Divine ascent.

٨. هو رمزٌ فارسيٌّ غامضٌ
وهو نصٌّ عند شخصٍ علوي