عجبتُ لإنسانٍ يراحم رحماناً

فأوسعُ أهل الأرضِ رُوحاً وريحانا

I'm amazed at one who pities the Most Merciful

The most generous of people in spirit and fragrance

فقام له الإيمان بالغيبِ ناصحاً

فأرسلَ دَمعَ العينِ للغيب طوفانا

So faith in the unseen stood up advising him

And sent tears streaming from the eye like a flood

فعارضه علمُ الحقائقِِ مُفصحاً

بصورةِ من سوَّاه أصبحَ رحمانا

Then the knowledge of truths refuted him clearly

With the image of Him who made him the Most Merciful

وأنزله في الأرض وَجهاً خليفةً

على الملأ الأعلى وسمَّاه إنسانا

And sent him down to earth with a face as successor

Over the highest assembly, naming him human

فلم يك هذا منه دعوى أتى بها

ولكنه بالحال كوَّن محانا

This claim did not come from him boastfully

Rather, he intrinsically formed this favor

وشرفه بالشحِّ إذْ كانَ مانعاً

فكان النقصانُ فضلاً ما وإحسانا

And honored him with deficiency, as He withheld

So imperfection became a virtue and kindness

فلو لم يكن في الكونِ نقصٌ محققٌ

لكانَ أخيّ النقصِ يخسر ميزانا

For if deficiency did not truly exist in the universe

Deficiency's brother would lose all balance

ولم يك مخلوقاً على الصورة التي

أقام بها عند التنازع برهانا

And no creature was made in the form

In which he stood in dispute with proof

فمن كان بالنقصانِ أصلُ كماله

فلا بد أن يعطيك رِبحاً وخُسرانا

So he whose origin of perfection is deficiency

Must inevitably give you profit and loss

إذا كان بالنقصانِ عينُ كماله

فأصبحَ كالميزان بالحمدِ ملآنا

Since deficiency itself is the essence of his perfection

He became like a scale, full of praise

فإن عموم الحمدِ ليس كبيرة

من أذكاره في كلِّ شيءٍ وإن هانا

For the generality of praise is no great matter

Among His remembrances, though trivial

فما هان في الأذكار إلا لعزَّة

يميل بها عنهم مكاناً وإمكانا

What is trivial in remembrance is only for the Almighty’s dignity

That he may incline from them in place and possibility

وآخرُ دعوانا أنِ الحمد فاستمع

وما ثَمَّ قولٌ بعدَ آخرِ دَعوانا

Our final call is that all praise belongs to God, so listen

There is no word after the final call

إذا جاءتِ الأذكارُ للعدلِ تبتغي

مفاضلةً يأتين رَجلاً ورُكبانا

When remembrances come seeking justice

To rank men and mounts they come

فيظهر فضلُ الحمد إذ كنَّ سوقة

وكان وجودُ الحمد فيهنَّ سُلطانا

So the superiority of praise appears as they were its driver

And the existence of praise in them was a sultanate

تأمل فإني أعلمُ الخلقِِ بالذي

أتيت به علماً صحيحاً وإيمانا

Contemplate, for I know people best regarding what

I have brought in true and certain knowledge