إذا كانت الأشياء تبدو عن الأمر

تساوى الدنيّ الأصل والطيِّب النجرِ

If things seem strange beyond comprehension,

The origin and perfume are equal in creation.

لقد ضربوه قاطعين بأنه

إذا ضربوه لا يقوم من القر

They struck him down claiming,

If struck, he would not rise from his burial site.

فأنطقه للقوم ثم أعاده

إلى الحالة الأولى إلى مطلعِ الفجر

But he spoke to the people, then restored him

To his original state at the break of dawn.

كما سبَّح الحصباءُ في كفِّ سيِّدٍ

وأصحابه الأعلام كالأنجمِ الزهر

As the pebbles glorified in the hand of the Master,

And his companions were like shining stars.

فما كانت الآيات إلا سماعهم

وهذا الذي قد جاء ضربٌ من النثر

The miracles were only their hearing,

And this that came was a type of prose.

وكلٌّ له حالٌ ووقتٌ مُعيَّن

فحالٌ إلى كَشفٍ ووقتٌ إلى ستر

Everyone has a state and appointed time,

A time for unveiling and a time for concealment.

فما كان من شام يراه ممثلاً

فيبصره حيّاً إذا كان من مصر

One from Damascus would not see him acting,

Yet sees him alive if from Egypt.

وجاء الذي مثلي غريباً مقرّراً

يقول الذي قالاه ما فيه من نُكرِ

He who resembled me came a stranger, asserting

What they both said, nothing objectionable in it.

فمن شاء فليكفر ومن شاء فليقل

بأني على حق يقينٍ من الأمر

Whoever wants may disbelieve, and whoever wants may say,

I am certainly right in the matter.

لقوّةِ إيماني بما قال خالقي

وصدقي الذي قد قرّر الله في صدري

By the strength of my faith in what my Creator said,

And my truthfulness which God has asserted in my conscience.