1. Our words are not what the expressions convey
We have considerations in their meanings for us

2. It exists on its own, devoid of
Both word and meaning - and it is the allusions

3. These two are dense, and its subtle secret
Relates to them, in it are the shifts

4. Like the soul appears from psyche and from body
And only providence reveals it

5. So do not assume if I described adornments
That I intended those references

6. Or if I mentioned a breeze blowing from somewhere
Or a waft that is my aim and intentions

7. Likewise, lightning and ruins I mention in verse
Not my purpose, nor doves

8. No, by Him who is exalted above what minds can conceive
And by Him the living are dead to the senses

9. The words of the people of God's path are a secret guidance
They have no part in elucidating it, couplets

10. It is stripped of substances, you are wrong
In its interpretations and analogies

11. One obstinate in criticism did not know it
Claiming knowledge and exegeses

12. So he interprets the wording for the meaning and understands it
And only misguidance is evident to him

13. While the people's purpose is a light that crept into hearts
From hearts, in it there is no ambiguity

14. Symbols of the secrets of a people prepared
For it the souls of a people contented with God

15. The scents of the people their insights smelled
To God they have dedications and desires

16. To them our composition of meanings they glimpse with it
The unseen of the unseen, and expressions conceal it