فأنا الذي لا عينَ لي موجودُ

وأنا الذي لا حكَم لي مفقودُ

I am the one who has no eye of discernment,

And I am the one who has no judgment that is lost.

عنقاءُ مُغربٍ قد تعورفَ ذكرها

عُرفاً وبابُ وجودها مسدودُ

A wild deer whose fame is known,

Known through custom, yet the door of its existence is barred.

ما صيِّر الرحمنُ ذِكري باطلاً

لكنْ لمعنى سرِّه مقصودُ

The Merciful did not render my mention in vain,

But for the meaning of its mystery I am intended.

هو أنني وهابه أسرارهم

عرفانها فِصراطُنا ممدود

It is that I was given their secrets as a gift,

Comprehending them, so our path is outstretched.

والسالكون على مراتبِ نورهم

فأجلهم من نورِه التجريد

And those walking according to the degrees of their light-

The greatest of them is the one stripped of his light.