1. Tell the one who considered existence an example
Did the gnostics attain any attainment from it?

2. No, by He who subjected existence to His might
It only increased them in blindness and misguidance

3. So if you are incapable of attainment, you realize it
Is through incapacity, not what you considered an example

4. He who made the example his evidence
To know Allah the Almighty attained deluded imaginings

5. So he sees it a crown on heads adorned
And he sees it in the feet of men a sandal

6. And you saw it in the soft spoken being sincere
To viewers, and in the bright as a reflection

7. Do not judge by what you see of a form
For the sun at times can be a crescent

8. The shining moon was not named crescent
Except by its disappearance and decline

9. Making much of the act of declaring His transcendence
From His creation, glory be to Him and transcendent is He

10. And attaining through it a sublime station
With its sciences, ranks and perfection

11. The mills of intellects revolved in seeking the One
Who did not cease to be in the mills of minds like bran

12. So he sees their mounts towards that complain
To him of fatigue and exhaustion