1. My friend, why are the caravans thus
Turning away from the truth, which is misguidance?

2. They see the existence of the creation as manifest
This is realized for them, it is said

3. As if the existence of creation has been realized
While the existence of Truth is an illusion

4. An illusion in their minds, manifest
Absent from them, which is impossible

5. So they worship God in what they imagined
And it has become clear to all minds, rationally

6. That the existence of Truth has become restricted
For them by things that fade and disappear

7. And so because of this, they denied it though it appeared
And was absent, and men roamed in its passion

8. Preoccupied with it, and the traces of His making
The ordainments of states prevented them, and shadows

9. So they are neither with the people in what they realized
Nor with establishing their realization, so they differ

10. Ignorance upon ignorance, so compounded ignorance
And they have no means of dispelling that