1. العلمُ بالأحكام لا يظهر

    إلا على ألسنة الرسْلِ

    Knowledge of the rulings does not appear

    except on the tongues of the messengers.

  2. والعلمُ بالآياتِ لا ينجلي

    إلا لمن يمشي على السبل

    And knowledge of the signs does not become clear

    except to one who walks the paths.

  3. فاحذر إذا شاهدت توحيده

    شهود عينِ المثل لا الشكل

    So beware, when you witness His oneness,

    of beholding the essence of likeness, not the form.

  4. فإنه لم ينفِ إلا الذي

    سميته بالشكلِ والمثلِ

    For He negated only what

    you called form and likeness.

  5. فلو نفى الرتبةَ لم يتخذ

    خليفةً في عالم السفلِ

    For had He negated rank, He would not have taken

    a vicegerent in the lower world.

  6. والله قد عيّن نوّابه

    في نشأةٍ قامتْ من الثقل

    And God has appointed His deputies

    in a constitution that arose from heaviness.

  7. لم يقبل الروحَ له صورة

    مجرَّداً عن نسبة الأصل

    He did not accept the spirit as an image of Himself,

    stripped of its relation to the origin.

  8. ألا ترى كيف نهى عبدَه

    عن البترا وهي في النفل

    Do you not see how He forbade His servant

    from the truncated prayer, though it is voluntary?

  9. وقدَّم الشفع على وتره

    في سُورةِ الفجر إلى الليلِ

    And He placed the even before His odd number

    in the surah 'The Dawn,' as far as the night,

  10. لأنه يقصدُ إنتاجها

    في عالم التفصيل والوصلِ

    for He intends its production

    in the realm of differentiation and union.

  11. لا يعرفُ الفضلَ على وجهه

    إلا الذي يعطي من الفضل

    No one knows bounty as it truly is

    except one who gives from abundance.

  12. ينقص ذو الإيثار في بذلِه

    عن منزلِ الأفضالِ والفضل

    One who puts others first falls short in his giving

    of the station of favors and bounty.