1. إنَّ الحبيبَ هو الوجودُ المجملُ

    وشخوصُ أعيانِ الكيانِ تفصلُ

    Indeed, the beloved is undifferentiated existence,

    and the embodiments of being's entities unfold its details.

  2. ما منهمُ أحدٌ يحبُّ حبيبه

    إلا وللمحبوبِ عينٌ تعقلُ

    None among them loves his beloved

    unless the beloved has an essence apprehended

  3. في عينِ من هو ذاتنا وصفاتنا

    ووجودنا وهو الحبيبُ الأكمل

    in the essence of him who is our essence and attributes

    and our existence—he is the most perfect beloved.

  4. وقف للهوى بي حيث كان وجودُه

    في موقفٍ عنه الطواغيت تسفلُ

    He halted me for love where his existence was,

    at a station beneath which false gods sink.

  5. طرفُ الذي يهوى سماك رامح

    وفؤادُ من يهوى سماك أعزل

    The lover's gaze is Simāk the Spear-bearer,

    and the lover's heart is Simāk the Unarmed.

  6. ما إن يرى من عارف الإله

    بين المنازلِ في المجرّه منزل

    No knower of God sees

    a mansion among the mansions in the Milky Way

  7. لمقام من يرجى العلو لذاته

    ومقام من يرجو المقام الأنزل

    for the station of one whose exaltation is hoped for in his own right,

    and the station of one who hopes for the lowest station.

  8. من كان لا يبني لذلك عندنا

    هذا هو العلمُ الذي لا يجهل

    Whoever does not build for that, in our view—

    this is the knowledge that is not unknown.

  9. والله لو ترك العباد نفوسهم

    لرأيتهم وهم الرجالُ الكمل

    By God, if the servants abandoned their selves,

    you would see them as the perfected men.

  10. نصر الإله فريضته مكتوبة

    فانصر فإنك بعده لا تخذل

    Supporting God is His written injunction;

    so support Him, for afterward you will not be forsaken.

  11. نص الرسول على الذي قد قلته

    وبذاك قد جاء الكتاب المنزل

    The Messenger explicitly stated what I have said,

    and with that came the revealed Book.

  12. جاء الكتاب مصدِّقا لمقاله

    وعليه أهلُ الله فيه عوَّلوا

    The Book came confirming his words,

    and the people of God relied upon it in this matter.

  13. ما من كتابٍ قد أضيفَ منزلٌ

    لله إلا والقرآن الأفضلُ

    No revealed book has been ascribed

    to God that the Qur’an does not surpass.

  14. والفضلُ فيه بأنه يجري على

    ما ليس يحويه الكتابُ الأول

    And its excellence lies in its extending to

    what the first Book does not contain.

  15. كره النبيُّ الفعلَ من عبد أتى

    بصحيفةٍ فيها دعاءٌ ينقل

    The Prophet disliked the act of a servant who came

    with a sheet containing a prayer copied

  16. من نص توراة وقال له اقتصر

    فيما أتيتَ به الغنى والموئل

    from the text of the Torah, and told him, 'Confine yourself:

    in what you have brought lie sufficiency and refuge.'

  17. عصمَ الإله كتابنا من كلِّ تح

    ريفٍ وما عصمت فمالك يأفل

    God protected our Book from every distor-

    tion; yours was not protected, so what you possess fades from view.

  18. فاستغفر الله العظيم لما أتى

    واستغفر الله لهذا المرسل

    So he sought forgiveness from God the Magnificent for what he had done,

    and God's forgiveness was sought for this envoy.

  19. فنجا من الأمر الذي قد ضرَّه

    عما أتاه به النبيُّ الأعدل

    Thus he escaped the matter that had harmed him

    through what the most just Prophet had brought him.

  20. وكذاك ختم الأولياء كلامه

    في الأولياءِ معظم متقبل

    And likewise, the Seal of the Saints—his speech

    is revered and accepted among the saints.

  21. من ذاقَ طعم كلامه لم يسترب

    في قولنا فهو الكلامُ الفيصلُ

    Whoever has tasted the savor of his speech has no doubt

    about what we say, for it is the decisive speech.

  22. من كان يعرف حاله ومقامَه

    عن بابه وركابِه لا يعدل

    Whoever knows his state and his station

    does not turn away from his door or his stirrup.

  23. من عظَّم الشرعُ المطهر قلبَه

    تعظيمه فهو الإمام الجوّل

    One whose heart the purified Law has exalted

    by honoring him—he is the ever-roaming imam.

  24. صفة المهيمن ههنا قامت به

    والناسُ فيها يشهدون العقل

    Here the Guardian's attribute is established in him,

    and in it people behold the intellect.