1. In every kind of people it is known
There must be a servant and one served

2. And a third who with evil between them
Strives, with a mind devoid of good

3. And every group fears its virtuous ones
Its wicked are shown as foul and ominous

4. So how many people I've seen without morals
And an oppressor, openly in the guise of one oppressed

5. And how many perplexing affairs of my Lord I've known
Beyond the minds, the minds of Arabs and non-Arabs

6. And how many smooth-tongued people I have endured
In a matter clear to the eye yet imagined

7. Not alike are those who eat fruits fresh picked
And those who eat the bitter tree of zaqqum

8. Every person's mind is the balance of his state
Not alike are the howls of wolves and owls

9. Our words of truth, their benefits are not hidden
Except from one who denies the truth, deprived

10. With them we address the people of agreement upon
A mighty secret of secrets concealed

11. They alone are meant by it, none other
In every utterance and meaning

12. Refuge of knowledge and solace of strangers are they
In form, of the tribe of chaff and garlic

13. Abu Huraira, seeing disagreement
In truth between praised and blamed

14. Had he said what knowledge of his Creator
He got from the Prophet, it would have silenced the glutton

15. The like of it is the poetry of Zain al-Abideen which says
"O Lord, essence of knowledge, articulated verse”

16. So let those of narrow minds leave off wading into my words
They are people of reason from strangers, banned

17. While we have spoken of the guarded secret and
The speech of existence and its known matter

18. Not of imagination or thought, and witness of it
My tongue was, in the vicinity of the Eternal