1. حمد الإله بقدّس الأرواحا

    باللام لا بالباء والأشباحا

    Praise of God [sanctifies] the spirits—

    with lām, not bāʾ—and bodily forms.

  2. حمد سرى نحو المهيمنِ سرُّه

    ليشاهد الأقلامَ والألواحا

    A praise whose secret journeyed toward the Guardian,

    to behold the pens and the tablets.

  3. حياه عند نزوله في لا ولا

    من شرَّفَ المشكاةَ والمصباحا

    He was greeted on descending into “no” and “no”

    by the One who ennobled the niche and the lamp,

  4. حتى يراقبَ نشأةً ممزوجة

    ويواصل الإمساءَ والإصباحا

    so that he might observe a blended creation

    and join evening to dawn.

  5. حرّ عن الأغيارِ عبد للذي

    جلى إليه وجهه الوضَّاحا

    Free of all others, a servant of the One

    who unveiled to him His radiant face.

  6. حاذر غوائلَ مكره في بسطه

    لا تأمن الرزاق والفتَّاحا

    Beware the perils of His guile in His granting ease;

    do not feel safe from the Provider and the Opener.

  7. حنتْ إليه ركائب من شوقه

    منحته فتحَ البابِ والمفتاحا

    Riding camels yearned toward him out of longing for him;

    they granted him the opening of the door and the key.

  8. حاميم يتلوها طواسمُ رمزِه

    ليسخر الأفلاك والأرواحا

    Ḥā-Mīm is followed by the Ṭawāsīm letter sequences of his cipher,

    to subjugate the celestial spheres and the spirits.

  9. حاربتُ من أهواه فيه بأمره

    لأحصّلَ الأكساب والأرباحا

    I fought the one I love in Him, at His command,

    to obtain gains and profits,

  10. حتى أوافي الضدّ صحبةَ عاشقٍ

    وأُجانب العذالَ والمنصاحا

    until I meet the opposite in a lover’s company

    and shun the censurers and the adviser.