1. The guidance is not like the four blind ones
Or like sleeping in the dens of foxes

2. Truths and rights are not like an apparition
Of drawings on a page of paper

3. I saw schools built for tyrants
While the righteous became mute without teeth

4. Its light was concealed by a horde
The descendants of Photius and the wearers of cassocks

5. When God folded the spread of their darkness
He threw them into the gloom of shackles

6. How many lofty ones were razed after
They were atop couches and chairs

7. They were cut off like a rotten limb from its body
And were tossed away with a strike to the head

8. A horde tomorrow being superstitious and deceitful
With every stupid drunk who tasted the cups

9. It is as if the idea of reincarnation is true
A lion seen in the form of a cat

10. A people whose humiliation was made an emblem
Circulated among them at the gatherings

11. They became like Jerusalem in the hands of foes
An abode of pleasure and sanctum of holiness

12. Is Jerusalem the throne of our God
Subject to every deceit and impiety?

13. Not all that glitters is gold
What a difference between ebony and brass

14. There, an unfelt light, one that
Can be seen by a sensitive eye

15. A light made by God, not by the craft
Of patriarchs, priests, and deacons

16. They derived it from the early ones and preceded
In deriving fires from tinder

17. So they made for the light of His glory
An example of lamp and lantern

18. What light do you see and it
Appears, so eyes of people glimpse it?

19. Reveal what you conspired, for it has no
Place concealed in the fold and cloak

20. If it were a clear and obvious right
It would have no need for concealment and dress

21. This is an established position, no machinations
Scattered among tribes and nationalities

22. In it came our theologians
And through it, it has the oldest authority in Rome

23. The fires sanctify the embers as
The waters sanctify on the day of Epiphany

24. So both were permitted by God, let us
By nature know which of the two pollutes

25. This has its limit and measure: its burning
With its candles and kindling of every size

26. With it you see risen at the Resurrection
Folk in sin and impurities

27. Dragged like startled horses during
Chanting and Mass

28. Where do injuries converge in the abode
Of the feared sea of sins and impurities?

29. Among the wonders is that sanctified wonders
Are held in the gathering of the unclean

30. So look, O knight son of knights, with insight
You will find guidance where there is misguidance

31. The sons of Rome missed their target
Their glory was marred with the blemish of Fez

32. They placed their hope in their calculations
So they were carried upon biers

33. They are the pagan unbelievers whose practice
Is to bow to fire and embers

34. They wanted elevation by raising that elevation
So they were humbled by lowering their elevation among people

35. A difficult folk, each being
Difficult to deal with and difficult to lead

36. They wandered in the sea of their misguidance as if
They were ships devoid of captain and anchorage

37. They did not necessitate by their confusion
Except seizing of morsels and clothing

38. They kept to obeying the sinful as
The slave keeps to the orders of the slave trader

39. Woe to them! What will be their recompense
On the day of recompense and the balance of justice?

40. Do not be surprised if they transgressed in what they sought
And if they were unjust and harsh without measure

41. For the love of worldly paper surrendered
The Most High to the crucifixion by Judas

42. What does hypocrisy say? A people saying
They are traditions of splendor and bankruptcy

43. Who is best at saving the people of Hell
Through intentional deceit? He is the worst trustee

44. How can prostration befit the fire which
Is the trickery of opinions and senses?

45. How can deceit be allowed from those who made
One who did not submit to their misguidance like an anvil?

46. It demolished the foundation of the covenant of Peter
Which the Merciful established, the best foundation

47. One of good, united and holy together
Divinity in the trinity of holiness

48. And the apostles, after the three
Became the fourth pillar

49. Those who raced in love surpassed
The running of horses, mules, and stallions

50. Seeking, not by sword or purse, so leave
A people who raided with sword and purses

51. Fold and triple the misguidance of the folk
Who rejected the five in the hexad

52. Great is the difference between the veracity
Of the lion of the den and the gazelle of Kinas

53. And the love they display seduces you
Dressed in the garb of tenderness

54. How many hardened hearts were split open
By their love, and it was most stubborn

55. They did to the hearts of people multiples of what
Diamonds did to some of the statues

56. In every land grew branches of their knowledge
Which grew and so produced good plants

57. O best of those advised by obedience to their patriarch
So honor through them the advisor and the advised

58. The Pope succeeded to the position of the Church, God's deputy
The conclusive judge in dew and clothing

59. This is the great patriarch, preceded by
Patriarchs to the last breath

60. He whose mandate came in Noah
And Jacob, with every resemblance and pun

61. His authority in the two worlds, and his rule
In the two abodes, is fate itself

62. O you who thickened the wound of disobedience, rejoice in
His obedience, it will heal your festering wound

63. General jurisdiction is reserved to him, so everyone
Appointed by him is an absolute trustee

64. O companion, cast off the garb of wickedness
And remove the gown of anxiety and whisperings

65. And give glad tidings of what you attained of the attainment of guidance
Give mankind tidings of the measured attainment

66. Do not neglect the benevolence of God forgetfully
But be to evil people the greatest consoler

67. And beware neglecting truth intentionally, for it
Is worse than forgetfulness, that neglect

68. Perceive piety from the cup of his covenant
Of which none has savored its first draught but the taster

69. And if you are invited to diversion, be the brother
Of Anasah, not her devilish seducer

70. Behold, I cannot get my fill of its cup
Give me to drink from the decanter, not the cup

71. How many a sober mind did it intoxicate
The wine of life from the noblest cups

72. How many crooked ones did it straighten
Burdened with an awful, twisted staff

73. Awakening drowsy eyelids, forbidden sights
From every withering, drowsy glance

74. How much were they persecuted and overcome, yet they
Were victorious without spear or breastplate

75. How many hearts were the sermons of its messengers able to divert
Deaf without arrow or bow

76. How many minds did wickedness control with ignorance
But it is a remedy for every illness

77. It wed me in the arenas of its glory
So I have no need for a wedding or weddings

78. In it the stars of faith were built after
Guidance was empty like the four blind ones