لحدث بنتي بيدي

لأنها ذو جسدي

With my own hands I chastise my daughter,

For she is of my own flesh.

أنا على حكم النوى

فليس شيءٌ بيدي

I follow the rule of principles,

So nothing is in my hands.

مقيد في وقتنا

ما بين أمسٍ وغدِ

Trapped in our time,

Between yesterday and tomorrow.

جسمي لُجين خالصٌ

حقيقتي من عسجدِ

My body is purely material,

My essence is from the One.

كالقوس نشئي ولذا

عينُ قوامي حيدي

Like a bow my constitution

The pupil of my eye deviates.

يقول ربي إنه

خلقني في كبد

My Lord says that

He created me in spirit.

فكيف أرجو راحة

ما دمت في ذا البلد

So how can I hope for rest

As long as I am in this land?

لولاه ما كنتُ أنا

ذا والدٍ وولد

Were it not for Him I wouldn't exist

As one with a father and son.

ولم يكن لي كفؤاً

كخالقي من أحد

And none were suited to me

Like my Creator from anyone.

فالنعتُ نعتٌ واحدٌ

في عينِ ذاتِ العدد

Attribution is one thing

In the eye of the plural self.

وإنني لخالقي

في خلقنا كالعدد

And I, to my Creator

In our creation, am like a number.

فحل إلهي بيننا

في الكون لا المعتقد

So resolve, my God, between us

In existence, not doctrine.

بنشأةٍ ثابتة

يصحُّ منها سندي

With a fixed nature

From which my evidence stems.

في أنني مثلكمُ

وأنت لي مستندي

That I am like you

And You are my support.

بالفرض لا إني أنا

مثل وهذا رشدي

By hypothesis, not that I

Am an example, and this is my reason.

نفيت عني المثل في

شورى وذا معتقدي

I denied the example in

Consultation, and this is my belief.

وجنتي عالية

مع الحسانِ الخرّد

And my paradise is lofty

With the fine, tiny pearls.

وإنما قال به

كما لنا في المقصد

And He only said it

As we have in purpose.

طبيعةُ الكون له

أهل وعينُ الأحد

The nature of the universe is His

People, and the eye of the One.

بعلٌ لها فاجتمعا

على وجودي وقد

A husband to it, so they gathered

On my existence and did.

ما قلت ذا عن نظر

قد قام بي في خَلَدي

I did not say this from sight

That stood by me in eternity.

وإنما قرَّره

عندي رسولُ الصمد

But rather he determined it

For me, the Messenger of the Eternal.

فكان يملي وأنا

أكتب عنه بيدي

So he would dictate and I

Would write from him with my hand.

وهكذا الأمر ولا

يعرفه من أحد

And this is how it is, and none

Knows it except one from anyone.

غيرُ إمامٍ سابق

بالخير أو مقتصد

Other than a preceding imam

In goodness, or moderate.

والغيرُ لا يعرفه

في الحال بل في الأبد

And the rest do not know it

Now, but in eternity.

وكلُّ فرع راجع

لأصله لم يزد

And every branch goes back

To its origin, nothing more.