1. Gently, o flashing lightning
For your light's sunset is my sunrise

2. You flutter a glimpse and disappear another
So places and meadows fall in love with you

3. Is it the joy of Salma's face that appeared
Perplexing the doting heart?

4. Or did she smile one evening and bid us farewell
So our beings were generous with joy?

5. These are the most dignified names
While we are but offshoots of them

6. You lean and steady the universes because of them
And when you are balanced, they have no falling

7. Such is the judgment of the Will which is a thing
Through which awe and humility come to be

8. And our universes are but nights
In which your candles shone from you

9. And every aversion from you is a turning
Towards you and every inclination a return

10. One existence from which multiplicities appeared
And communities vanished back into

11. And those are ranks in which
He always begins anew

12. Raiment of sheer joyous consideration
And in the war with foes, armor

13. You have become from Him for Him
And He effaces you and confirms you in submission

14. Whenever He wants, He shows you as people
So everyone is content with the equanimity

15. And if He wants the witnesses, then no parity
As the light of His rising has illumination