لولا قبولي ما رأيت وجودي

لولا قبولي ما رأيت وجودي

وبه مننت عليّ حال شهودي

وبه مننت عليّ حال شهودي

Were it not for my receptivity, I would not have seen my existence.

Had I not accepted, I'd not have seen my being,

And through it You favored me as I witnessed

And through it You blessed my state of witnessing.

إياي فانظر في معالم حكمتي

إياي فانظر في معالم حكمتي

يدري بهل من كان أصل وجودي

يدري بهل من كان أصل وجودي

myself; so look into the signs of my wisdom.

Regard me, look into the signs of my wisdom,

One knows, through 'whether' [unclear wording], who was the source of my existence.

Who knows the source of my being and its origin?

وبها تميز من كتابي كونه

وبها تميز من كتابي كونه

ولما قضى في علمه بمزيدِ

ولما قضى في علمه بمزيدِ

And through it His being was discerned from my book.

And through it distinguish those of my creation,

And when, in His knowledge, He decreed an increase,

And why in His knowledge He willed my increase.

وهو الغنيُّ ولستُ أعرف ذاته

وهو الغنيُّ ولستُ أعرف ذاته

إلا به وتجلُّ عن تحديدي

إلا به وتجلُّ عن تحديدي

and He is the Self-Sufficient, and I do not know His essence

He is The Rich, while I cannot know His essence,

except through Him, and it is exalted beyond my definition.

Except through Him - transcending my limits.

لما علمنا جودَه بوجودِه

لما علمنا جودَه بوجودِه

بالافتراق خرجتُ عن توحيدي

بالافتراق خرجتُ عن توحيدي

When we knew His generosity through His existence,

When we knew His generosity through His being,

through separation I departed from my affirmation of oneness.

Through otherness, I lost my unicity.

الله يعلم أنني ما كنته

الله يعلم أنني ما كنته

أو كأنني إلا بخدِّ جدودي

أو كأنني إلا بخدِّ جدودي

God knows that I was not Him,

God knows I’m not Him, or as though I’m not,

or as though I were, except by the cheek of my forefathers.

Except by the cheek of my ancestors.

جرَّدت عن أسمائه وصفاته

جرَّدت عن أسمائه وصفاته

ووجودِه ووجوهه بحدودي

ووجودِه ووجوهه بحدودي

I divested myself of His names and attributes,

I’ve been stripped of His Names, Attributes,

and His existence and His faces, by my limits.

And Being and Aspects by my limits.

لولا اعترافي بالذي هو نشأتي

لولا اعترافي بالذي هو نشأتي

ما قلتُ بالتليثِ والتفريد

ما قلتُ بالتليثِ والتفريد

Were it not for my acknowledgment of Him who is my origin,

Had I not confessed to Him who is my origin,

I would not have spoken of triplicity [uncertain reading] and singularity.

I'd not have said, “Distinction and unicity.”