1. علمت بما في الغيب من كل كائن

    وما لا فما قلنا وما أدراك السمعُ

    I have known all that exists in the unseen,

    And what is not; so we have not spoken, nor has hearing informed you.

  2. على أنني ما كنتُ إلا موحِّداً

    بتوحيدِ فرق ما يخالطه جمعُ

    Although I was nothing but an affirmer of oneness,

    With an affirmation of oneness in separation, unmixed with union.

  3. علا الحقُّ في الإدراك عن كلِّ حادثٍ

    وهل يدرك التنزيه ما قيد الطبعُ

    In apprehension, the Real transcends every created thing.

    And can what nature has bound grasp transcendence?

  4. علاه بها عقلاً وليس بذاته

    وليس لمخلوقٍ على حمله وسع

    He rose above it thereby in intellect, not in his essence,

    And no creature has the capacity to bear him.

  5. عبيد وفي التحقيق ربٌ كصورةٍ

    وليس له ضرٌّ وليس له نفع

    A humble servant, yet in realization a lord, like an image,

    And his is neither harm nor benefit.

  6. عظيم على من أو جليلٌ من أجل من

    تعالى فلا فطر لديه ولا صَدْع

    Great over whom, or majestic for whose sake?

    He is exalted: with him there is neither fissure nor rift.

  7. عزيزٌ ذليلٌ بائسٌ ذو غنى

    ولكن عمن إذ هو السيبُ والمنع

    Mighty, lowly, destitute, possessed of wealth—

    But independent of whom, since he is bounty and withholding?

  8. عبدناه بالفقرِ الذي قام عندنا

    ولو قام ضدَّ الفقرِ لم ندرِ ما الصنع

    We worshipped him through the poverty that dwelt within us;

    And had poverty’s opposite arisen, we would not have known what to do.

  9. علينا من التقوى رقيبٌ مُسلَّطٌ

    نقيٌ وقيّ فهو لي الوتر والشفع

    Over us is a watcher of piety, vested with authority,

    Pure and cautious: for me he is the odd and the even.

  10. علوتُ عن التنزيه معنى وما علا

    عن الحكمِ والتشبيه فليدع من يدعو

    I rose above transcendence in meaning, yet he did not rise

    Above judgment and likeness; so let whoever invokes invoke.