1. My candle shone with Your light, my Lord
And yet the jealous moths circled around it

2. Whenever they tried to put me out
They burned themselves on me, so my affair was revealed

3. And the lights of my sun shone with truth
Yet to them I appeared with the eyes of a bat

4. Do you think that when dogs barked at me
Their gibberish would soil my cleanliness?

5. Or that I would lose status among people
Through the words of vile riffraff?

6. No! And anyone who blessed me with surplus knowledge
Did not become blinded by its spray

7. And my conscience was purified by the light of certainty
And it threw them into confusion and shock

8. And afflicted them with disappointment and stubbornness
While the hearts of those captive to doubts thirsted

9. And He granted me elevation above them all
To a noble station, glorious in its margins

10. They cannot harm me by their provocations
Except with disbelief in the truth and violation of sanctity

11. And straying from what is right, and curses
In the Hereafter that last for eternity

12. So argue, O hypocrites, or erase
I will show you the embarrassment of debate

13. You have dug up by your objections traces of your disbelief
So sever amongst yourselves the hand of the digger

14. Or did you not know that I am a light
That shone to reveal in the overwhelming darkness?

15. So flee if I rise like a shooting star
O demons, or take up the weapon of war

16. The knight of glowing spears is too far
For your convoy of lame camels to keep pace