1. When I saw the houses of Jawzā',
The realities of the news were hidden from me.

2. And I knew that God veils His servant
From His essence to actualize intimacy.

3. Indeed, evidence is opposite to the evidenced -
This opposites' ruling inheres creation.

4. Look to His beautiful names, you find
Our entities from the presence of names.

5. So when He appeared through the face, He showed our being
In the witnessed copy, gleaming.

6. We slipped from examples—no, He struck them
For God, when we were among the ignorant.

7. Where are the forearm and prostration and greeting
From an ordained duty above the towering?

8. In an atlas where no fixed star appears,
Its light seems and is seen by the beholder.

9. And to Him belong moisture and heat, for to Him belongs
The nature of life and its secret in water.

10. The age of youth is His, not because His constellation
Is in the highest station, the House of Air.

11. The Bucket and the Scales are examples of Him.
So judgment differs without contention.

12. The judgment of the houses may oppose His nature—
How healing, while in it lies the eye of sickness?

13. The mystic wandered confusedly in the darkness,
Like the thinker when both are equal.

14. The matter is greatest that its essence be encompassed
And with sincerity came with tidings.

15. We were perplexed, and the mind was confused in attaining it,
Since it cannot be limited to enumeration.

16. Had the impossibility of limitation not been proven, I would have said, by His generosity,
"Limitation removes the rank of generous ones."

17. Do not rejoice in what you see of a witness
That appears to your eye when a cover is unveiled.

18. It is His way to use that deceit which
He has stated in the decisive verses and news.

19. The aim in the knowledge of matters is as
The aim in bearing neither crow nor dove.

20. Indeed, nature is like a bride when she adorns herself,
And the groom—who makes her gestures to him?

21. From her originated all bodies altogether,
And morning and evening alternate.

22. So she is the wet nurse of the dense and its spirit,
And it is to her, for procreation, like sons.

23. And they are the anemones attributed to them
Through action, not through the distant conjunction.

24. Whoever believes in enumeration believes in all
To which the realities of enumeration point.

25. Do not receive tablets containing His mercy
And repel with them the gloating of enemies.

26. And make me follow the straight path, answering
The voice of every caller at each slope.

27. He is the veiler of the door to which
The necks of the elite bowed, commander of commanders.