إن الذي فتح الخزائن جوده

إن الذي فتح الخزائن جوده

لم يبد للأبصار غير وجودِه

لم يبد للأبصار غير وجودِه

Indeed, He whose generosity opened the treasuries

The one whose generosity unlocked the treasuries

has revealed to the eyes nothing but His being.

Showed nothing to the eyes but his existence

والحكم للأعيان ليس لذاته

والحكم للأعيان ليس لذاته

إلا القبول له بحكم شهوده

إلا القبول له بحكم شهوده

And determination belongs to the entities; His essence has nothing

And the judgment belongs to the notables, not to his essence

but receptivity to it, by virtue of His witnessing.

Except acceptance of him by virtue of witnessing him

هو مظهر أحكامهم في عينه

هو مظهر أحكامهم في عينه

لما تعين مظهراً لعبيده

لما تعين مظهراً لعبيده

He manifests their determinations in His own being,

He is the manifestation of their rulings in his eye

when He became determinate as a locus of manifestation for His servants.

When he was manifested as a manifestation to his servants

لا وجهّ أعظمُ من غنى في نعته

لا وجهّ أعظمُ من غنى في نعته

بغنى تقيَّد عندنا بحدودِه

بغنى تقيَّد عندنا بحدودِه

No aspect of His description is greater than self-sufficiency;

No aspect is greater than the richness in his description

through self-sufficiency He is delimited, in our view, by its bounds.

With the richness that was defined for us within its limits

وإذا يكون الأمر هذا لم يزل

وإذا يكون الأمر هذا لم يزل

سلكُ القلادَة ثابتاً في جيده

سلكُ القلادَة ثابتاً في جيده

And when the matter is thus, there has always remained

And when the matter is this, he has not ceased

the necklace's thread, firmly fixed on His neck.

Wearing the necklace fixed on his neck

إنا لنبصره ونعلم أنه

إنا لنبصره ونعلم أنه

حال بنا وحليّه من جوده

حال بنا وحليّه من جوده

We indeed behold Him and know that He

We do see him and know that he

is adorned with us, and His adornment comes from His generosity.

Is our state, and his ornaments are from his generosity

إنا جعلنا ما علينا زينة

إنا جعلنا ما علينا زينة

لوجودِه بعقودِه وعقوده

لوجودِه بعقودِه وعقوده

We have indeed made what we bear an adornment

We have made that which is upon us an adornment

for His being, with His necklaces and His covenants.

For his existence, with its nodes and contracts

فإذا أنا أوفيته ألزمته

فإذا أنا أوفيته ألزمته

ذاك الوفاء بعينه لعهوده

ذاك الوفاء بعينه لعهوده

So when I give Him His due, I oblige Him

So when I have fulfilled it, I obliged it

to that very faithfulness to His covenants.

To that fulfillment in itself for his pledges