1. Know the oneness of existence
And suppress the multiplicity of the existent

2. And distinguish the accidental from the eternal
And extract the permanent from the lost

3. And beware of confusion from what is manifested
In other than Him in the state of witnessing

4. For oneness of existence in our terminology
Is an allusion to seeing the Loving

5. With perception and taste, pure and clean
Not purity from doubt and occlusion

6. Not by the imagination of the intellect and thought
And what the natures of skins bring

7. Exalted, sanctified, glorifying
From every father and from every newborn

8. And from entering and exiting in other than Him
And from all the requirements of limits

9. And from perfection we know
And from deficiency and from decline or loss

10. But rather His perfection by the requirement
Of what He said about Himself in generosity

11. We know it because of what we were taught
Of loyalty to covenants

12. And truthfulness and upholding the truth for Him
In the way of bowing in prostration

13. Whoever increases in incapacity from Him, increases his knowledge of Him
To the extent of breasts and arrivals

14. O you who look with the intellect, beware
Lest you understand the Absolute with restrictions

15. And be patient until Allah opens up
And do not attack the lairs of lions

16. And leave the knowledge of Allah to its people
And hold back the ignorant, stubbly pilgrim

17. And if you want, then leave the world and become estranged
From your decorated, observed knowledge

18. And refrain from status and position and from
Family and origin and ancestors

19. And be content with the One you seek besides people
And come out from standing and sitting

20. And purify your intention for Him and be patient and endure
His intended purpose for you

21. And do not think oneness of existence is what
You understand from the oneness of that existence

22. You understand a meaning and say that
It is the intent of the most perfect leaders

23. And this is not their intent because they
Surpassed you in the platforms of ascent

24. While you are in the lowlands, captive to passion
With a desire like fire in fuel

25. Walk their path and speak with their words
You will know what they knew without hindrances

26. For if piety to God sincerely solves
The knots of his knotted intellect are opened

27. Alas, alas for one individual
To enter into the ranks of the finite

28. And the Absolute, even beyond absoluteness, cannot
Be understood in a contract of contracts

29. And where is the light of truth from one whose intellect
Is in the darkness of other than Him, blackened

30. Indeed, all meanings are accidents
Negated from our witnessed Lord

31. Because He is exalted from them through them
In their flowing or stillness

32. And rather the matter we intend
With oneness of existence in custom

33. Is a tremendous matter beyond everything
That the wretched and happy know

34. A reality before which all perish if
It appears to the intellect while the intellect slumbers

35. And whoever comes with it, upon him in the world
Hostility, slander, and return are brought

36. Because it is the secret brought by
Our Prophet despite the envious

37. And it is what when it appeared in Adam
The angels fell in prostration to Him

38. And Iblis refused to prostrate to Him
So he remains forever banished

39. In it is the Christians' blasphemy of incarnation
And the blasphemy of anthropomorphism among the Jews

40. And because of it a party went astray and became atheist
Until through them it declined into perdition

41. And prophecy passed with it and
Successorship came without armies

42. In every era, one after one
Until the promised Hour arises

43. This is what we intend by oneness
Of existence, we recite it in witnessing

44. That they may testify to it for us on a Day
In which the Generous fulfills His promises

45. And the proof appears through the witness that
The absentee did deliver, the majestic one

46. We say this constantly
And its light is in us without extinction

47. Not that we speak of the meaning
That the people of the rejected doctrine say

48. So may Allah protect us from their misguidance
By opening a door closed to them

49. And whoever falsely accuses us of other than
What we have said, is captive on his witnessed Day