1. By God, he cannot attain what I have attained,
Of knowledge, intimacy, and devotion.

2. Nor can he be of aid in anything that may happen to us,
Even if he who has lived it were to live again.

3. God has a people, possessed of knowledge and wisdom,
Who respond to Him whenever He calls them.

4. Though blind, their sights penetrate the Light,
Were they to witness what I witnessed, they would bear witness.

5. They do not bear witness though their realities stand firmly,
By direct vision from their Lord they bear witness.

6. Verily those servants whom the Truth has eyed
For Himself and chosen - all of them worship.

7. His Majesty, persisting in worship of Him,
Even were He to reveal Himself plainly before their eyes they would worship.

8. No hesitation occurs in any one of them that hesitates in Him,
Save for men who through themselves have worshipped Him.

9. For that He established them in creation with a station,
By which above all others in existence they worshipped.

10. We have a beloved, pure of essence, in my eternity,
Which no soul contains, nor body,

11. Because of whom exists in me that which they bear witness to,
Musk, brightness, imagination, and body.

12. And indeed when I look to reveal Him in the eye of the mystic in my essence, He has a body.
When what I was characterized with was manifested through me,

13. For that the jealous arose against the knower of Him.
They came near to the Most Exalted Presence when its standards of their sincerity dawned,

14. The signs of their truthfulness from them - and they did not lag behind.
If the veils of foes enveloped them and those below them,

15. He kept them and lifts the veil - and they did not lag behind.
God has warriors, they have no number,

16. Though His excellent names are the number.
The leader of their mighty army is their Master,

17. And they are many, their number cannot be counted.
If they support God, He supports them with His providence,

18. And from their thoughts comes aid to them.
Time went astray, so it did not succeed in counting them,

19. Nor containing them - the aid did not cut them off.
When he who I thought was with me and my pillar

20. Turned on me, no pillar remained for me.
Whose excellent names were a strong pillar for me,

21. Fortified in my ascent - the pillar was exalted.