إذا ذكرت الذي بالذكر يحجبني

عنه ويحصره ذكراه في خلدي

When I mention the one whose mention hides me from him

And confines his remembrance within my mind

الذكر باللفظِ عينُ الذكر منه بنا

فنحن نذكره في حالة الرصدِ

Mention with words is the essence of mention from him, verily

So we mention him while observing

لولا تحوُّله في العينِ في صور

ما صحَّ ذكر على الوجهين من أحد

If he had not transformed into images in the eye

No one’s mention in both ways would be correct

والذكر بالقلبِ ذكر لا حروفَ له

لأنه واحد من ساكني البلد

And mention with the heart is a mention without letters

Because it is one from the inhabitants of the town

إني أرى نشأة الديهور قائمة

وهي التي خُلقت بالطبع في كَبَدِ

I see the creation of eras standing

It is what was inherently created in the liver

هو النزيه الذي لا شيء يشبهه

وإن تقيّد لي بالجسمِ والجسد

He is the most pure, nothing resembles him

Even if he was limited to me in body and physique

هو المقيد في الإطلاق صورته

فهو الكثير بكثر ليس عن عدد

He is the limited in absoluteness, his image

So he is the many without being of number

لكنها نِسَبٌ والعين واحدة

هوية دُعيتْ بالواحد الصمد

But they are attributes and the essence is one

It is selfhood called the One, the Eternal

ألفيت أسماءه الحسنى بحضرتنا

تسعاً وتسعين لم تنقصْ ولم تزد

I found his beautiful names in our presence

Ninety nine, neither decreased nor increased

فكلمتْ مائة فيها حقائقنا

وغبت فيه مغيب الشفع في الأحد

So they became a hundred, in which are our realities

And the even numbers disappeared in the One

الحقُّ توحيدٌ ولكنه

كثره في بصري عينهْ

The Truth is oneness, but

Its multiplicity appears in my vision

وعلة التكثير أحكامها

لأعيننا فكوننا كونه

And the cause of multiplicity, its rulings

Are for our eyes, so we are its existence

لا كون للأعيان في ذاتها

وإنما الكونُ له بينه

No existence for essences in themselves

Rather, existence is His between them