لله دَرُّ رجالٍ ما لهم دولٌ

وهم يقيمون ما في الدهر من دول

God bless the men who have no worries,

And who make impermanent things pass in this life.

لهم عنت أوجه الأملاك ساجدة

وما لهم أربٌ في علةِ العلل

The faces of angels bow down before them,

And they have no concerns about the causes of afflictions.

لأنهم عينه ومن يكون على

ما قلته فله التصريفُ في الملل

Because they are His essence, and whoever is as I described,

To him belongs the power to turn the course of fates.

لما تفكرت فيما اختص بي وبهم

رأيتهم عينَ نفسِ الحقِّ في الأزل

When I pondered what was divinely ordained for me and them,

I saw they were the essence of the True Reality since the beginning.

لقد رأيتهمُ والعين تصحبهم

على محجتهم في أقوم السُّبّل

I saw them, and the spiritual eye accompanied them,

On their straight spiritual path.

لبيتهم حين نادوني على كَثَب

أنا المشرع ما في الكون من نحل

When they called me from a hill,

I am the Lawgiver, none in existence has my ability,

لو كان لي غرضٌ في نسخ ما شرعوا

للما عجزتُ ولكن حكم ذلك لي

If I wanted to copy what they legislated,

I would not have been able, but the judgment of that is not up to me.

لي كل ما شئتُ أخفيه وأظهرُه

من العماءِ إلى الأركان في السفل

I have all I wish to show and hide

From deep darkness to the corners below.

لدورتي أوجد الأدوار في أُكر

من الهلالِ إلى البيضا إلى زُحَل

My cycles originated cycles

From the crescent moon to Saturn to Jupiter.

لعبت بالدهرِ دهري في تصرُّفه

ولو تصرَّفَ غيري كان ذا ملل

I played with fate my whole fate in its events,

And if another took charge instead of me, it would have been tedious.