1. Blessed is God, there is no permanence in the abode,
Rather it is fires and lights.

2. Salima has unveiled her face from her covers,
Her face shines and her glance enchants.

3. The whole is but the radiance of her joy,
Circles, all centered around her and revolving.

4. If she gestures, the universes appear,
Through her, and else all in her are mysteries.

5. Eyes were dazzled by her, from her their gaze turned
To the hue of existence wherever existence turns.

6. O King of kings, you have made yourself manifest to us,
You are our essence though the name is another's.

7. You have conquered us so we rule what you rule,
And you have lifted from us the veils over your being.

8. She is an essence which in creatures seems manifold,
Say suns or, if you wish, say moons.

9. The strings of names for your essence ring, not
As they claim, strings and chords ring.

10. By her we are enraptured, and you are our ravisher,
To none but you belong hearing and sight.

11. You have given us to drink, O Giver of drink, from our cups,
The wine of epiphany, and intoxication steals into us.

12. We are the cup, and you the wine imbibed,
And every meaning that came to us is from you, the server of wine.

13. You have written us by you in the tablets of our essence,
So we are your tales and legends.

14. The being of existence by it from it is turned,
As smoke is turned by fire that kindled it.

15. Not so in my view is the reality of the matter,
Though in their words all have gone astray.

16. We are the servants, and if we have been graced,
Still we, my Master, remain the free.

17. And we are you, nothing but you here,
Though judgment veils and hides this.

18. A blink of your eye reveals us,
As wretched or righteous, however you desire.

19. You are still you, as you have always been,
While we are we, no loss or shame.

20. These are lineages you have deemed,
In which for them are secrecy and disclosure.

21. The upshot of the affair is the affair's upshot
Is this, though with others it is masked.

22. God is greatest! None knows our saying,
That we are other than ourselves and all are confused.

23. God is greatest! By Him we are absent
From ourselves, and for us in that there are no traces.

24. None but us in the universes knows us,
And the absent we, though to speak this is veiling.

25. God is greatest! His essence is exalted,
So thoughts and views cannot attain Him.

26. He knows by it in all, from Him is not hidden,
Subtle and overpowering is He.

27. They appeared and said, "It is the spirits that have judged
Over bodies theirs in the cosmos for a span."

28. He is the Hidden, so neither spirits nor bodies know Him,
And thoughts of Him remain confused.

29. If He wills, each will be guided to Him
From the error in which he strayed, far from unbelief.

30. If He wills, through the faith with which some believed,
Others are led to blaspheme, if He desires decrease as increase.

31. The reality of what a thing requires has no effect,
You may bring it or send it away.

32. We do not speak like their poet who said,
"It is but advance and retreat."

33. I am the one who says what Mehmet the Renewer said
In two verses, reminding people:

34. The sea is still the sea, as it was before,
Events are waves and rivers, no more.

35. I do not claim recurrence nor
Return of epiphany - in the matter there is no recurrence.