القلبُ منزلُ من سواه واتخذه

بيتاً يكون به جوداً ومال نبذه

The heart is the home of whoever other than Him has made it his,

And adopted it as a house in which to manifest generosity and wealth he has rejected.

وكيفَ ينبذه والحق يسكنُه

إذا قلوبٌ لأهل الزور منتبذه

How could he reject it when the Truth dwells within it?

For indeed hearts are the refuge of the people of falsehood.

إنَّ القلوبَ التي بالعلمِ زينها

هي القلوب التي للحق متخذه

Verily those hearts adorned with knowledge

Are the hearts that have made the Truth their refuge.

فكل قلب تعالى عنه أكنته

وقفله فهو قلبٌ للهوى اتخذه

So every heart aloof from its passions

And locked away from them is a heart that desire has made its home.

قد اصطفاه لما قلناه عامره

وعن سواه من أحوال العمى انتبذه

He has chosen it for what we have said has made it flourish

And from anything other than Him among the states of blindness He has delivered it.

فلو رماه بسهمٍ من رمايته

رام العمى وأصاب العين ما نقذه

So if an arrow from His quiver He should shoot at it,

He would aim at blindness but hit the eye He has saved.