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If you bear witness that you are in the witnessing,

إذا أشهدت أنك في شهود

1. If you bear witness that you are in the witnessing,
Cease resisting the martyr.

١. إذا أشهدت أنك في شهود
خليّ عن مقاومة الشهيدِ

2. And you are looking to him, to Him
Through his being the Lord of servants.

٢. وإنك ناظر فيه إليه
به من كونِه ربَّ العبيدِ

3. And you are seeking more increase,
So asking for more has been legislated.

٣. وإنك مبتغٍ طلباً مَزيداً
فقد شُرعَ السؤالُ من المزيد

4. I saw the eye that has no peer
Resisting the purposeful or the follower.

٤. رأيتُ العينَ ليس لها نظيرٌ
يقاوم من مُرادٍ أو مُريد

5. When the Truth manifests itself to us,
It is specified in mastery and prostration.

٥. إذا ما الحق جلاه إلينا
تعيَّنَ في السيادةِ والمسُودِ

6. So none in the universe knows my words
Except the one whose vein is the lifetime.

٦. فما في الكونِ من يدري كلامي
سوى مَنْ عينه حبلُ الوريد

7. So he manifests me and I manifest him and he hides
And I hide him in the manners of prostration.

٧. فيظهرُني فأظهره فيخفى
فأخفيه بآدابِ السجودِ

8. I prostrated to Him in prostration of passion in truth,
So He honored with peace and witnessing.

٨. سجدتُ له سجودَ هوى بحقٍّ
فأكرم بالسلامِ وبالشهود

9. I was raised through Him yet I did not see other than my essence
Acting in standing and sitting.

٩. رفعتُ به فلم أر غير ذاتي
تصرف في القيام وفي القعود

10. That He may witness in all matters from Him
And in Him, so my jealous rage is extinguished.

١٠. ليشهد في جميع الأمر منه
وفيه فينطفي غيظاً حسودي