إذا أخذ الفرقان من كان يتقي

جزاءً لتقواه وعفواً وتكفيرا

When one who fears God receives discernment,

as a reward for his piety, together with pardon and expiation,

فما بعدَ ذا من غاية يطلبونها

سوى قربه الأعلى وجوباً وتقريرا

so beyond this, they seek no further goal

save His highest nearness, necessary and affirmed:

ففي جنةِ المأوى وُجوداً محققاً

وفي جنته المعنى جلالاً وتوقيرا

in the Garden of Refuge, then, as realized existence,

and in His garden, meaning—majesty and reverence.

لأنّ اقترابَ الذاتِ قربَ مسافة

محالٌ عليها فالتزمْ ذاك تعزيزا

For the Essence's drawing near through spatial nearness

is impossible for It; hold firmly to that, reinforcing it.

تباركتَ أنت الله في كلِّ صورة

كذا جاء في القرآن كبِّره تكبيرا

Blessed are You, God, in every form.

Thus it came in the Qur’an: magnify Him greatly.

وأنتَ شَرَعتَ الله أكبر من كذا

فحيّر أهلَ الفكر قولُك تحييرا

And You prescribed: “God is greater than such-and-such,”

so Your saying utterly bewildered the people of thought.

لذاك ترى أهل الحقئق شمَّروا

ذيولهم عن أخذهم فيه تشميرا

Thus you see those versed in realities have tucked up

their hems, keeping wholly clear of engaging in it.

وأوّله أهلُ العقولِ بفكرهم

ولو سلَّموه مثلنا كان توفيرا

And people of intellect interpreted it through their thought;

and had they accepted it as we did, that would have been reverence.

لقد أطلق الله العليمُ مقالةً

بزهواته فيها تدمره تدميرا

Indeed, God, the All-Knowing, uttered a saying:

through his conceits about it, it utterly destroys him.