1. I say, and I know that I am not a speaker
By myself, but I speak as they have spoken

2. That I have an utterance for what has been uttered
About us, and my tongue in me has not ceased

3. And I am not a vessel like a place, nor am I
A location for it, and the inclination is my inclination if they incline

4. So do not despair, O my soul, of what we want
For I must have it, though long it has been prolonged

5. It uncovers from my eyes the cover of my blindness
So I realized what was behind the veil and what leaned

6. And I became one day guided, insightful
And left people in misguidance and error

7. When the truth came to them, they came to deny it
So do not make for Allah examples in thought

8. And if that example which came to them
Was true, they did not recognize its forms

9. And I was not in doubt about a matter I witnessed
Nor was I pretentious in my asceticism and pride

10. I drag my train, as Uqbah said
And not every pretentious person drags trains

11. Do you not know that I in jihad am advancing
I counsel, and even if we are diminished, we do not know defeat

12. And are voices raised except for an absent one
Far away, and one who is near whispers in awe