1. Amongst the people of denial and rejection
Every matter is wondrous

2. They left doubt amongst the doubtful
And were suspicious of every dubious matter

3. Their slander against us increased openly
And they were excessive in their mockery

4. And they made a cup circulate amongst them
Whose draft was sweetened by rapprochement

5. How much ugly slander we heard from them
That led to dishonor and vilification

6. They blamed us with delusions
In matters that were clear to every intelligent person

7. They belittled us out of ill thinking
Then blamed and rebuked us

8. They denied seeing the sailor and equated
The wolf and gazelle equally

9. They wanted to nullify the vision that distinguishes
Between the wet and the dry in the world

10. All this is from the density in their natures
And the deficiency of their wicked, sterile minds

11. They have an ugly intention towards others
That will lead them tomorrow to torment

12. The Guardian destroyed many bodies from their straying
In flames

13. And God cast in the fire a soul
That was raised with hypocrisy and scheming

14. And my Lord tested them with every test
Hoping they would return with a repenting heart

15. And hardships have befallen them in succession
Like dark nights during winter

16. But they persisted and grew arrogant
With souls that do not fear the Lord who is near to them

17. They have no lesson or consideration at all
Amongst them regarding the seen or the unseen

18. They are blind to the straight path
And do not care for the watchful witness

19. They neglected themselves then busied themselves
With much fault finding and digging up faults in others

20. Whenever they are alerted to the truth, they sleep
From it forcibly and stubbornly

21. The palace of perfection has become far from them
So they sought solace from that with denial

22. I stood amongst them as a teacher as much as I could
Advising gently between questioner and respondent

23. Calling to guidance with a sincere heart
And clear, eloquent speech

24. Honoring, with their elders and youngsters
The sanctity of affection with welcome

25. But they saw me as they described themselves
And blamed me for that which they themselves resemble

26. They claimed their intellect unveiled
The wickedness of my matter, so they deemed my gentle fragrance foul

27. They inverted me and changed me to them
And to the people they made my clarity ambiguous

28. They blasphemed against my praiseworthy qualities and deviated
From my correctness and distanced my reconciliation

29. They did the same as the people of theological rhetoric
In the speech of the All-Powerful, All-Responsive

30. Wherein they said with the motives of their souls
Nonsense in every blossoming garden

31. They made it into doctrines with minds
Into which delusions crept, that lizard

32. And they invalidated it though it is truth
Clear in its ruling to every well-mannered person

33. All this while my ears do not miss
Their guidance or their rebuke of me

34. I am the sun - blind eyes do not see me
The beauty of my Beloved's face

35. So if they pelt me, interpret my path thus:
Do not shake hands stained with blood with me

36. Be with me, following me, or remain
Always without participating with those who hide

37. I did not burden you to see the beauty of my state
In the wilderness, or to be of my lineage

38. Or for victory over me to see you remaining
Or with your wealth to increase my share

39. Rather, courtesy from you is the courtesy of flies
Refrain from harming my wounds

40. O souls who extract meanings
From ugly speech through arrangement

41. If you are people of striving in evil
Then you are either erring or correct

42. And I see you determined on what
In it you are without any qualm

43. Do you equate every virtuous reputation
In noble deeds with a gloomy, dark one?

44. Does ambiguity not appear to you
In the souls of those people though they are being refined?

45. You have not been able, with discernment, to distinguish
Between dung, and fresh milk from the udder

46. They are not souls that have surrendered, like souls
Devoted to the worship of the cross

47. There are people with the bodies of men
But souls empty of discipline

48. And minds that willingly follow
Passion, misguidance, the guide of the fool

49. Whoever came to them with knowledge, they rejected him
So what of one who came to them with strange knowledge?

50. They fell into attacking the people of Badr
Then their falling became inverted

51. They denied spiritual vision on the path, and said
"All this is the imaginings of the deceitful one"

52. You see them belittling evil
And you see them making good difficult

53. They gave voice to every owl with their passions
And wanted silence for the nightingale

54. They attempted to extinguish my light with falsehood
And debase my mighty, revered worth

55. But they saw from God's care for me what
Made them morning in sorrow and lamentation

56. And unto God I pleaded regarding them
And God over His servants is my Reckoner