من عمل السرَّ الذي في القضا

من عمل السرَّ الذي في القضا

قد علم الأمر الذي ينبغي

قد علم الأمر الذي ينبغي

Whoever puts into practice the secret within fate

The One who ordains what is hidden and decreed

Has learned the matter that is fitting.

Knows what must be and what's rightly achieved

فأمره يجري على حكمه

فأمره يجري على حكمه

في كل ما ينوي وما يبتغي

في كل ما ينوي وما يبتغي

So his affair proceeds according to his judgment,

His will flows as He wills and intends

In all he intends and all he seeks.

In all He desires and seeks to conceive

يستعجل الأمر الذي لم يصل

يستعجل الأمر الذي لم يصل

أوانه حبراً ولم يبلغ

أوانه حبراً ولم يبلغ

He seeks to hasten the matter that has not reached

Impatient for what is not yet matured

Its appointed time, as a learned man, yet he has not attained it.

Or ready, though yearned for, to be unreeved

يقذفُ بالحق على باطلٍ

يقذفُ بالحق على باطلٍ

يدمغه وقتاً فلم يدمغ

يدمغه وقتاً فلم يدمغ

He hurls truth against falsehood,

Truth he casts at falsehood to subdue

Crushing it for a time, yet he has not crushed it.

In time it will be stamped though not yet relieved

قد يفرغ الرحمنُ منالنا

قد يفرغ الرحمنُ منالنا

وشأننا الدائمُ لم يفرغ

وشأننا الدائمُ لم يفرغ

The All-Merciful may bring our attainment to an end,

The Merciful's bounty for us may run out

Yet our enduring affair has not ended.

Yet our never-ending affair is not achieved

من مبلغي لما رأى رشْدنا

من مبلغي لما رأى رشْدنا

في نيله باله من مبلغي

في نيله باله من مبلغي

Who will inform me, when he has seen our right guidance,

By my attainment of what seemed prudent

In his attaining his wish—who will inform me?

In reaching it, many like me were bereaved