1. إذا نظرت عيني فأنت الذي ترى

    وإن سمعت أذني فلستَ سوى سمعي

    If my eye looks, You are the one who sees.

    And if my ear hears, You are nothing but my hearing.

  2. وإنَّ قوايا كلها ومحلها

    وجودك يا سرِّي كما جاء في الشرعِ

    And all my faculties, and their seat,

    are Your being, O my secret, as stated in sacred law.

  3. ولا حكم من طبع إذا ما تكونه

    فإن كنته كان التحكم للطبع

    And nature has no authority when You form it;

    but if You are it, authority belongs to nature.

  4. إذا كنت عيني حين أبصركم بكم

    فقد أمنت عيناي من علة الصدع

    If You are my eye when I behold you through you,

    then my two eyes are safe from the affliction of division.

  5. إذا فَرَّقَت اسماؤه عين صورتي

    على صورتي فيه أحن إلى الجمع

    When His names divide the essence of my form

    across my form, in Him I yearn for union.

  6. فاحمده حمدَ المحامد كلها

    واشكره في حالة الضرِّ والنفع

    So praise Him with every kind of praise,

    and thank Him amid harm and benefit.

  7. وارقب أحوالي إذا كان عينها

    واشهده في صورة الوهب والمنع

    And observe my states when He is their very essence,

    and behold Him in the form of giving and withholding.

  8. لقد أثرت لما أغارت جيادُه

    بميدانه شحباً كثيراً من النَّقع

    Indeed, I stirred up, when His steeds charged,

    in His field, much pallor from the dust.

  9. فما قرع بابِ الله والبابُ انتمُ

    كما أنت ذاتي حين أشرعُ في القرعِ

    So what is knocking at God's door, when you are the door,

    just as You are my very self when I begin to knock?

  10. واشهده عند اللوى وانعطافه

    وإن كمال الحق في مشهد الجزعِ

    And behold Him at al-Liwa and its bend;

    indeed, the Real's perfection lies in the vision of onyx.

  11. وصورته في الدرِّ أكملُ صورة

    وصورةُ عين الكونِ أكمل في الجزع

    And His form in pearls is the most perfect form,

    while the form of the cosmos's essence is more perfect in onyx.

  12. أما وجلال النازعاتِ وغرقها

    لقد شهدت عيني الطوالع في النزع

    Lo, by the majesty of those who wrench forth, and their plunging,

    my eye has indeed witnessed the rising lights in the drawing forth.

  13. إذا لم يكن فرعٌ لأصلِ وجودنا

    وهل ثمر تجنيه إلا من الفرعِ

    If the root of our existence has no branch,

    and can you gather fruit except from the branch?

  14. وصعقٌ وجودُ الحقِّ في دارِ غربتي

    فلا صقعٌ أعلى في المنازلِ من صعقي

    And the Real's being in my exile's abode is a swoon;

    so no realm among the stations is higher than my swoon.

  15. ألا إنه يخفي مع الوتر عينه

    ويظهرها للعين في حضرةِ الشفع

    Lo, He hides His essence with the odd,

    and reveals it to the eye in the presence of the even.

  16. ألا كل ما قد خامر العقل خمره

    وإن كان في مزر وإن كان في تبع

    Lo, all that has clouded the mind is its wine,

    even if it is in barley beer, even if in mead [uncertain reading].

  17. لقد رفعت للعينِ أعلامُ هديه

    وضمن كيد الحقِّ في ذلك الرفع

    The banners of His guidance have indeed been raised before the eye,

    and the Real's stratagem is contained in that raising.

  18. ولولا دفاعُ الله هدّت صوامع

    لرهبان ديرٍ فالسلامةُ في الدفعِ

    But for God's warding off, hermitages would be razed,

    belonging to monastery monks; safety lies in warding off.

  19. لقد سحت في شرقِ البلاد وغربها

    وما حفيت نعلي ولا انقطعتْ شِسعي

    I have indeed roamed the lands' east and west,

    and my sandal has not worn thin, nor has my strap snapped.

  20. وفي عرفات ما عرفت حقيقتي

    ولا عرفت حتى أتيتُ إلى جمع

    And at Arafat I did not know my true nature,

    nor did I know it until I came to Jamʿ.

  21. ولما شهدناها وجئت إلى منى

    بذلت له بالنحر ما كان في وسعي

    And when we witnessed it and I came to Mina,

    I offered Him in sacrifice all that was within my power.

  22. حصبتُ ندوّى جمرة بعد جمرة

    ببضع من الأحجار بورك من بضع

    I pelted my foe [uncertain reading], jamra after jamra,

    with a few stones—blessed be those few!

  23. ولما أتيتُ البيت طفتُ زيارة

    حنينا بها من فوق أرقعة سبع

    And when I came to the House, I made a visitation circuit,

    in longing for it, from above seven heavens.

  24. عنايةُ ربي أدركت كلَّ كائنٍ

    من الناسِ في ختم القلوبِ وفي الطبع

    My Lord's care has reached every being

    among people, in the sealing of hearts and their stamping.

  25. ومن أجل ذا لم يدخل الكبر قلبهم

    على موجد الصنع الذي جل من صنع

    And for this reason pride has not entered their hearts

    toward the Originator of creation, who is exalted above what is made.

  26. ولولا وجودُ السمع في الناس ما اهتدوا

    وليس سوى علمِ الشريعةِ والوضع

    And were there no hearing among people, they would not find guidance,

    and it is nothing but knowledge of sacred law and convention.

  27. فكم بين أهل النقلِ والعقلِ يا فتى

    وهل تبلغ الألباب منزلة السمع

    So how far apart are the people of transmitted knowledge and those of reason, O youth!

    And can intellects attain the station of hearing?