1. إني لأعلم أن شيئاً ما هنا

    ويقالُ لي ما أنت عنه بغائبِ

    I surely know that a thing is not here,

    And I am told, "You are not absent from it."

  2. وتحقق الأمرين عبدٌ مؤمنٌ

    بمغيبة عنا وقولُ الصاحبِ

    A believing servant has ascertained both matters,

    Through absence from us and the companion's words.

  3. فتراه في هذا وذاك مقلِّداً

    والقولُ بالحكمين ضربةُ لازبِ

    So you see him following authority in this and that,

    And affirming both judgments is unavoidable.

  4. كالنفي في الرمي الذي شهدوا له

    ثبتاً من الرامي الإمام النائب

    Like the denial of the throwing to which they bore witness,

    Affirmed as coming from the thrower—the imam, the deputy.

  5. لا يمترون ولا يشك بأنه

    لم يرمِ إلا الحق في يد حاجب

    They do not doubt, nor does he doubt that

    None but the Real threw through a chamberlain's hand.

  6. فالحكم في هذا وذاك كمثله

    في قصة المغصوب مع يد غاضب

    So the judgment in this and that is like its counterpart

    In the tale of the usurped thing and an angry man's hand.

  7. دور غريب ليس يعرف سرَّه

    إلا الذي يأتي بصورة ذاهب

    A strange cycle: none knows its secret

    Except the one who comes in the form of one departing.