الحمدُ لله الذي صيرّا

وجودَنا لفعله مظهرا

Praise be to Allah who has made

Our existence manifest His action

لو أننا نعلمُ أرواحنا

بالوجه في الصبح إذا أسفر

If we knew our spirits

In the morning when it dawned

كما علمنا بالجسوم التي

عينها الليلُ إذا أدبر

As we knew the bodies

Whose eyes the night veiled when it faded

كنا به نعلم أعياننا

لكن جلناها لأمر طرا

We would know our entities by it

But we concealed them due to a passing matter

من ظلمةِ الطبع وأخلاطِه

فاعتم الليلُ وما أقمرا

From the darkness of temperament and its mixtures

So the night grew dark and did not become illuminated

وألبس الأنجم أنوارها

لما رأى عسكرها شمّرا

And clothed the stars with their lights

When it saw their army readiness

حينَ رَمَت بالرجمِ أرواح مَن

يسترقِ السمعَ كما أخبرا

When they pelted with stoning the spirits of those

Who eavesdrop as He informed

انظر إلى الأرضِ وخيراتها

وما بها الرحمن قد أظهرا

Look at the earth and its bounties

And what the Merciful has manifested in it

لابدَّ أنْ يصبح عمرانُها

كمثلِ ما أصبح وادي القرى

Its civilization must become

Like the civilization of Al-Qura Valley

عروشها خاويةٌ حين لم

يغيرِ الناسُ بها المنكرا

Its palaces are empty when

The people did not change its wrongs in it

عمَّ بلاءُ الله سكَّانها

فأهلكَ المقبلَ والمُدبرا

The affliction of Allah encompassed its inhabitants

So He destroyed the coming and the going

بذا أتانا النصُّ من عنده

في محكم الذكر كذا سطرا

With this the unequivocal text came to us from Him

In the decisive Quran thus inscribed

فقال فيه واتّقوا فتنة

وتمم القولَ به منظرا

So He said in it, "And fear discord"

And completed the saying depicting it

سبحان مَن أخبرنا أنه

كان على الأخذ بنا أقدرا

Glory to Him who informed us that He

Was most capable of seizing us

هذا الذي جئت به واضحٌ

في سورةِ الأنفال قد حُرِّرا

This which I came with is clear

In Surat Al-Anfal it was well documented

ويعد ذا ترجع أفكارها

إلى إمامٍ ما له من ورا

And attributes its ideas

To an Imam who has no counterpart

لا فعلَ في العالم إلا له

فإنَّ ما سميتَه مُنكرا

No action in the world except for Him

For what you called wrong is His decree, not entity

فحكمه ذلك لا عينه

فلتعتبر قولي حتى ترى

So take my saying as advice until you see

With it, and if you wish with our entities

به وإن شئت بأعياننا

لتشهد الأسماء والمحضرا

To witness the names and the attendants

The matter will appear to you from its elucidation

يبدو إليك الأمر من فصِّه

كما بدا لمنْ به أخبرا

As it appeared to the one who informed of it

Like the Messenger of Allah in his time

مثل رسولِ الله في وقته

والوارثِ المختار بين الورى

And the chosen heir among mankind

So praise be to Allah who has protected

فالحمد لله الذي قد وقى

من شرِّ ما يمكن أن يُحذرا

From the evil of what can be warned of

If not for a preceding scripture in you

لولا كتابٌ سابقٌ فيكم

نبذتم لفِعلكم بالعَرا

You would have discarded for your wrongdoing in wastelands

What the Merciful legislated of His remembrances

ما شرعَ الرحمن أذكاره

إلا لكي تعصمَكم كالعُرى

Except so they protect you like handholds

For they are the safest thing to take refuge with

لأنها أعصم ما يُتقى

لما بدا الرحمن قد قَدرا

For what the Merciful predetermined

Seek refuge in Him through them, emulating

تعوّذوا منه به أسوةً

بسيِّدٍ يعلم ما قرَّرا

A master who knows what He decreed

Whoever knows the truth and its secrets

من يعرفِ الحقَّ وأسرارَه

يكن لما جئت به مُظهرا

Will be a manifester of what I came with

Whoever has not seen the truth with its lights

من لم يرى الحقَّ بأنوارِه

يكن لما أذكره منكِرا

Will denounce what I mention

Blindness cannot perceive our sights

العمى لاتدرِك أبصارنا

إلا ظلاماً وهي شيءٌ يُرى

Except darkness, which is something seen

And does not know what I have said

وليس يدري بالذي قلته

إلا الذي في غيبة قد سرى

Except one who in absence has journeyed

So the absent is not realized by the absent

فالغيب لا يدركه غائبٌ

إلا الذي في غيبه أحضرا

Except one who in his absence attended

I have clarified a matter not known

أوضحتُ أمراً ليس يدري به

إلا الذي في شأنه قد جرى

Except by one in whose affair it passed

Or a master privileged with his secrets

او سيِّد خص بأسراره

مثل إمام نفسُه قد درى

Like an Imam whose self has realized

Flowing effortlessly to his essence

يسري به قُدماً إلى ذاته

لا يعرف الخلفَ ولا القَهقَرى

Not knowing regression or going back

Not like the creeping in its creeping

ما هو كالخنس في سيرها

بل هو كالبدرِ الذي أزهرا

But like the full moon that shone

Revealing the sun's essence within himself

أظهر عينَ الشمسِ في ذاته

وهو على ما هو لمن أبصرا

And he is aware of what he is for the one who saw clearly