كلُّ شيءٍ بقضاءٍ وقَدَر

هكذا المعلومُ

Everything is by predestination and fate

Thus is the known

والذي يقضي به حكم النظر

سرُّه مكتوم

And He who decrees what the mind rules

His secret is concealed

كلُّ من أشهده سرّ القدر

ربُّه يعلمُ

All who I made witness the secret of fate

Their Lord knows

إنَّ بالحكم الذي منه ظهر

عينه يحكمُ

Indeed, in the decree from which appeared

His eye rules

عجباً قيمن له نعتُ البشر

وهو لا يفهمُ

A wonder who has the attribute of mankind

And he does not understand

والذي يشهدُه نورُ القمر

فهو المرحومُ

And those who witness the light of the moon

They are the blessed

والذي عُيِّب عنه واستسرَّ

ذلك المحرومُ

And those deprived of it and kept secret

They are the deprived

شاهد النقل الذي حيرني

وبه أحيى

The witness of the transmitted that confused me

And with it I was revived

ودليلُ العقلِ قد صيَّرني

مُنكِراً أشْيا

And the proof of reason made me

A denier of things

فتراني عندما خيّرني

أكره المحيا

So you see me when it gave me a choice

I dislike life

فأنا ما بين عقلٍ وخبر

ظالمٌ وظلومْ

So I am between a mind and news

Oppressive and oppressed

فإذا سُرِّحتُ من سجنِ الفكر

قمتُ بالقيوم

So if I am released from the prison of thought

I stand by the Eternal

بالتجلِّي في التدلِّي قلتُ به

فأبى عقلي

By the manifestation in the evidence I said with it

But my mind refused

والتجلي في التجلِّي منه به

قال لي قل لي

And the manifestation in the manifestation from it with it

It said to me, say to me

انت مني عينُ ظلِّي فانتبه

بالهوى من لي

You are from me the essence of my shadow so be conscious

With passion from me

إن جرى الأمرُ على حكمِ البَصَر

قلت بالمفهومْ

If the matter proceeded according to the rule of sight

I said with understanding

أو جرى الأمر على حكم العِبَره

ينتفي المرسوم

Or if the matter proceeded according to the rule of lesson

The decree becomes invalid

لو أنَّ ما بي من شؤون العبادِ

وكلُّ ما يجري

If what is in me from the affairs of servants

And all that happens

يكون بالسبعِ الطباقِ الشدادِ

يسكّن عن دورِ

Were to be with the seven layers of the veil

It would settle from going around

إنَّ الذي كانَ مسبيّ مراد

لصاحبِ الأمر

Indeed, he who had what he intended captive

To the owner of the matter

الصبر أولى بي من أجل الظفر

وإنه موهومُ

Patience is more suited to me in order to gain

And it is delusional

فاشرب رحيقاً عند وقتِ السَّحَر

مِزاجُه تسنيم

So drink a draught at the time of dawn

Its mixture is breeze

بساحلِ البحر رأيتُ التي

ما زلتُ ألغيها

On the seashore I saw she

Whom I still make disappear

فقلتُللنفسِ ترى قبلتي

بالله أبغيها

So I said to myself, do you see before you

By God I want her

فأنشدتْ تخبر عن جملتي

وذاك يطيعها

So it recited telling of my situation

And that obeys it

ليتني رملٌ على شطِّ البحر

يا ابني أو أطومْ

I wish I was sand on the seashore

Oh my son or I perish

وترى عيني مذ تطلعُ سِحر

لبلادِ الرُّوم

And you see since dawn appears

To the lands of Rome