1. Rise for your Lord, not for yourself,
And care for your fellow man.

2. For all are you and you are all,
And tomorrow all will be your sun.

3. How long will you remain thus,
O dead one, in the darkness of your oblivion?

4. What is hidden from your eyes
Is revealed only after your blindness.

5. You are life's sanctity; you are
The object of desire, and life's sanctity.

6. So remove the veil of otherness from
Yourself, and shed the garb of your perception.

7. And welcome the breeze, if
It brings you whispers from your intimacy.

8. When you appear and you are not
Yourself, for the goodness of your upbringing,

9. Then impart your knowledge about, not
From, whom you teach with your lesson.

10. And look to your eye, and wait,
And from the equal and the other refrain.

11. And read the inscription of the letters
That appeared on the pages of your firmness.

12. And when you obtain what
Contains your day over your yesterday,