1. الحمد لله لا أشرك به أحدا

    إذ لم يجد أحدٌ سواه ملتحدا

    Praise be to God; I associate none with Him,

    for none has found a refuge other than Him.

  2. لم يتخذ كفؤا من خلقه سندا

    ولم يلده أب حقاً ولا ولدا

    He has taken no equal from His creation as a support.

    No father truly begot Him, nor did He beget.

  3. جل الإله فما تُحصى عوارفه

    الواهب الأكرم المِحسان والصمدا

    Exalted is God; His favors cannot be counted:

    the Bestower, the Most Generous, the Bountiful, and the Eternal Refuge.

  4. الحق مفتقرٌ إليه أنَّ له

    نعت الغنى وبهذا كله انفردا

    The Real is the One depended upon, for His is

    the attribute of self-sufficiency, and in all this He stands alone.

  5. والعبدُ مفتقر إليه متكل

    عليه مستند لذاته أبدا

    And the servant is in need of Him, placing his trust

    in Him, relying on Him by his very essence forever.

  6. إن افتقاري ذات لي إلى عدم

    وليس يعرفه إلا الذي وردا

    Indeed, my need is my very essence, unto nonbeing,

    and none knows it but the one who came

  7. من عنده بالذي أعطاه من حكم

    بأنَّ معبودَه من ذاته عبدا

    from His presence with the judgment He gave him:

    that the One he worships worshipped from His own essence,

  8. وإنَّ أعمالنا عن أمره ظهرت

    وإنّ عابدَه لذاته عبدا

    and that our deeds came forth from His command,

    and that His worshipper worshipped by his own essence.

  9. أقرّ لله بالتوحيدِ في ملأ

    من غير جَبْر ولا كَرهٍ وما عَبَدا

    He professed God's oneness before an assembly,

    without compulsion or coercion, yet he did not worship.

  10. بل كان متصفاً بالعجز معترفاً

    بأنه ربه حقاً وما عَبَدا

    Rather, he was marked by inability, acknowledging

    that He is truly his Lord, yet he did not worship.

  11. بل كان مفتخراً إليه مفتقراً

    لذاته وبهذا الأمر قد سعدا

    Rather, he took pride, being dependent on Him

    by his very essence, and through this condition found felicity.

  12. قد صح أنَّ الغنى لله والكرما

    فما أبالي إذا ما حل بي عدم

    It is established that self-sufficiency and generosity belong to God.

    So I do not care if nonbeing befalls me.

  13. ليس التعجبُ من تأثير قدرته

    عجبتُ إذ أثَّرتْ في جوده الهممُ

    The wonder is not in the effect of His power;

    I marvelled when spiritual aspirations influenced His generosity.

  14. ليس الكريمُ الذي من نعته كرمٌ

    إنَّ الكريمَ الذي من ذاته الكرمُ

    The generous one is not he whose attribute is generosity;

    truly generous is he whose very essence is generosity.

  15. ليس الكريمَ الذي يعطيك عن قدر

    إنَّ الكريمَ الذي يعطي ويتهم

    The generous one is not he who gives you by measure;

    truly generous is he who gives and is accused.

  16. ليس الكريمُ الذي يعطي بحكمته

    إنَّ الكريمَ الذي تُعطى به الحِكَمُ

    The generous one is not he who gives according to his wisdom;

    truly generous is he through whom wisdom is bestowed.

  17. إن الكريم الذي يعطي ويغتنم

    عين القبول ولا يُعطى ويحتكم

    Truly generous is he who gives and counts as gain

    acceptance itself; he receives nothing and holds sway.

  18. من يطلبِ الشكر بالإنعام ليس له

    ذاك التكرم فابحث أيها العلم

    Whoever seeks thanks for bestowing favors does not possess

    that generosity; so investigate, O eminent one,

  19. غيرالإله الذي أولى بنعمته

    وكلّ من نعته الإيجاد والعدم

    one other than God, who bestowed His blessing,

    and all whose attributes are creation and nonbeing.

  20. إني ضربت حجاباً ليس يرفعه

    سواه أو من به الألبابُ تعتصم

    I have drawn a veil that none can lift

    but He, or one to whom intellects cling for refuge.

  21. هذا الذي قلته الألباب تجهله

    وليس تثبته الأعرابُ والعجم

    What I have said here, intellects do not know,

    nor do Bedouins and non-Arabs affirm it.

  22. به خُصصتُ على كشفٍ ومعرفة

    ولم يكن فيه لي من قبل ذا قدم

    In this I was singled out through unveiling and knowledge,

    and before this I had no footing in it.

  23. قد يلحقُ الناسَ في أقوالهم ندمٌ

    وليس عندي فيما قلته ندم

    Regret may overtake people for what they say,

    but I have no regret for what I have said.

  24. لأنه المنطق الأعلى فكان له

    عني التلفظُ والتعريفُ والكلم

    For He is the supreme Giver of speech; His were

    the utterance, the making-known, and the words through me.

  25. والعبد في عزلةٍ عن كلِّ ما كتبتْ

    كفٌ له أوهمت من كفه ديم

    And the servant stands apart from all that was written

    by his hand, which made steady rains seem to come from his palm.

  26. ما في الوجودِ سواه فالوجودُ له

    لذاته وأنا الظلُّ الذي علموا

    There is nothing in existence but He; existence is His

    by His very essence, and I am the shadow they have known.

  27. لولاه ما نظرت عيني ولا سمعت

    أذن لنا وبنا عليه قد حكموا

    Without Him, my eye would not have seen, nor would anything have been heard

    by an ear of ours; and through us they have judged Him.