1. Turn away from illusion and fantasy
And employ thought and insight

2. People are but like imagined forms
So look to the Maker of images

3. Whoever contemplates finds wisdom
And witnesses truth in witnessing

4. You were shown the veil of existence
So look to whom existence unveils

5. His hand was first ere He revolved it
And the first of fortune is in ascent

6. Whoever ascends from low to lofty
Sees the eye in the trace

7. People are but like imagined forms
So look to the Maker of images

8. The first the weak see
Is like a child, a shaped form

9. Dense shadows whose origin are thin
But accept the mirage

10. Their doing gives them qualities
However much is considered

11. When the images are for examples
They appear in the world of sight

12. People are but like imagined forms
So look to the Maker of images

13. Until the day dawns
And the child grows wise and guided

14. He sees the turned objects
Appearing dead and frozen

15. With them, for the one who shaped them, concealed
Hidden by them when through them appeared

16. Their drink is clear like ripples
The watering missed its mark and was confined

17. People are but like imagined forms
So look to the Maker of images

18. I was amazed by His strange secret
For His decree, how it comes to pass

19. This as He willed, near
And that from union exiled

20. And this innocent, and that culpable
Thus did the Determiner determine

21. You see Him reveal yet care not
In every state for Him a cause

22. People are but like imagined forms
So look to the Maker of images

23. He clothes them in His given garb
And the garment is on every clad one

24. Tied to their edges are threads
Hidden from mankind when forgotten

25. Remembrance of Him among the conditions
First is leaving the selves

26. So remembrance of Him is first in perfection
My life be ransomed for the last of insights

27. People are but like imagined forms
So look to the Maker of images

28. Limit the outer existents' display
What inner reality concealed

29. Those are veils by which He is veiled
Know them as letters

30. Then the eye of one who perceives is unveiled
By them, so he surpassed one asleep

31. Take advice from the state of the impossible
For wakefulness befits one drunk

32. People are but like imagined forms
So look to the Maker of images

33. The heart is unseen and the Lord unseen
And the unseen to the unseen is ascribed

34. O brother of rind, then kernel
So seek it, for the kernel is sought

35. And lower than it the drinkers drink
That runs to the one from whom it drinks

36. Leave what is said of impossibilities
Of what is hidden or what appears

37. People are but like imagined forms
So look to the Maker of images