الكبرياءُ رداءُ من سجدت له

كلُّ الجباه وسخَّرالأقيالا

Arrogance is the cloak of those who prostrate to it

All the foreheads and the heavy burdens

أنت الردآء وعلمكم بمن ارتدى

علمٌ لذا لا يقبلُ الإشكالا

You are the cloak, and your knowledge of who wore you

Is knowledge, so it does not accept problems

وصفُ النفوسِ جزاؤها وهذا أتى

نصُّ الكتابِ ففصَّلوا الإجمالا

Describing the souls is their reward, and this came

The text of the Scripture, so they elaborated on the summary

ولتتخذ إنْ كنتَ تعقل قولنا

وصف الإله لما يرون مَجالا

And take, if you are reasonable in our words

God's description of what they see as appropriate

إن البيانَ لذي عمى في نفسه

ما زاده إلاّ عمى وضلالا

Indeed, the statement is blind in itself

It did not increase him except blindness and misguidance

لو يدري ذو السمعِ السليمِ مقالتي

ونصيحتي عن حكمها ما زالا

If the one with healthy hearing knew my words

And my advice on its wisdom did not persist

وبدتْ له كالشمسِ تشرق بالضحى

ورأى عليه نورها يتلالا

And the dawn appeared to him like the rising sun

And saw its light dripping on it

ما يصدق الكنز الذي يجدونه

العارفون يرون ذاك مُحالا

What will prove the treasure they find

The gnostics see that as impossible

ختم الإله على قلوبِ عبادِه

إنْ لا يكونوا كِبراً ضَلالا

God has sealed the hearts of His servants

Lest they become arrogant and go astray

وإن أظهروا إضلالهم وتكبروا

فالعالمون يرون ذاك خَيالا

And if they manifest their misguidance and arrogance

The knowledgeable see that as illusion

فلذاك يظهر ذله في موقف

ويذله ربُّ الورى إذلالا

So for that reason it appears humiliated in the stance

And the Lord of the Worlds humiliates it with humiliation

كالذر ينشرُه الإله بموقفٍ

ليذوقَ فيه خزيه ونكالا

Like an atom that God disperses in a stance

To taste in it his disgrace and torment

لما تكبّر بدرُه في ذاته

لحق الصَّغارُ به فعاد هلالا

When its full moon was arrogant in its essence

The small ones caught up with it, so it became a crescent

لا بل أزال الحقُّ عنه ضياءَه

مَحقاً فكان المحْقُ فيه وَبالا

Rather, the Truth removed its light from it

Obliterating it, so ruin was its affliction in it

لو يشهدون كما شهدت مقامه

رفعوا له أصواتهم إهلالا

If they witnessed as I witnessed his position

They would raise their voices glorifying him

وأفادهم ما قد رأوه شهادة

وتربة في قلبه ونوالا

And what they saw would benefit them as testimony

And closeness in his heart and intimacy

لا يشهد البدرَ المنير هلالا

إلا عيونٌ أبصرَته كمالا

The shining full moon does not witness a crescent

Except eyes that saw it complete

لما بدا للعينِ خلفَ حجابه

كنت الحجابَ له فكنت حجالا

When it appeared to the eye behind its veil

I was the veil for it, so I was blocking

ورأى الذي عاينته من حكمة

في ستره عمن يريد فشالا

And saw the one I witnessed of wisdom

In veiling from whoever he wished, so he was successful

لنراه حتى لا نشك بأنه

هو عينه فأتى الحجاب زوالا

So we can see him without doubting he is

His essence, so the veil came off

فعلمتُ أنَّ الأمر لا ينفك عن

ستر عليه وكان ذاك ظِلالا

So I learned that the matter cannot be separated from

Veiling upon him, and that was shadows

العرشُ ظلُّ الله في ملكوته

وبذا أتت أرساله أرسالا

The Throne is God's shadow in His dominion

And thus His messengers came as messengers

تاه الذين تحيَّروا في ذاته

عجباً بذاك وجرّروا الأذيالا

Those who were confused in His essence strayed

Strangely marveling at that and dragging garments

وتقدَّسوا لما تقدس عندهم

وأنالهم تقديسهم إجلالا

And sanctified what was sanctified to them

And their sanctification brought them reverence

ما عظم الأقوام غير نفوسهم

في عينه سبحانه وتعالى

The people did not revere anything but their souls

In His eyes, Glorified and Exalted is He

لما علمت بأنني متحيِّر

فينا وفيه ما رددت مقالا

When I learned that I was confused

Among us and Him, I did not repeat words

وعلمتُ أن العجزَ غايةٌ علمنا

بوجودِه سبحانه وتعالى

And I learned that incapacity is the pinnacle of our knowledge

Of His existence, Glorified and Exalted is He

فموحد ومشرك ومعطِّل

ومشبِّه ومنزِّه يتغالى

So monotheist, polytheist, negator

And resembler and transcender boast

حتى يكذبَ ما يقولُ بنفسه

عن نفسِه ويردَّه إضلالا

Until he denies what he says about himself

About himself and rejects it as misguidance

قد كنتُ أحسب أنَّ في أفكارنا

عين النجاةِ لمن أراد وصالا

I used to think that in our thoughts

Is the essence of salvation for those who wanted intimacy

حتى قرأتُ كتابه وحديثه

عن نفسه في ضربه الأمثالا

Until I read His Scripture and His words

About Himself in His use of parables

فعلمت أن الحقَّ في الإيمان لا

في العقل بل عاينت ذاك عقالا

So I knew that truth is in faith not

In reason but I saw that rationally

في آية الشورى تحارُ عقولُنا

وتواصل الأسحار والآصالا

In the verse of consultation, our minds are confused

And the dawns persist and the late nights

إن كنتَ مشغوفاً برؤية ذاته

فاقطع إليه سباسباً ورمالا

If you are passionate about seeing His essence

Cut off to Him obstructing ropes and sands

حتى تراه وما تراه بعينه

إن التنزبه يباعد الأشكالا

Until you see Him, and you do not see Him with your eye

Indeed, transcendence distances forms

مثل الذي جاء الكتابُ بنصه

في رميه بتلاوتي الأنفالا

As the one who came with the text of Scripture

In its recitation of Al-Anfal

إن اللبيبَ يحاز في تكييف من

هو مثله وينازلُ الأبطالا

Indeed, the intelligent one rivals in qualifying whom

Is like him and humbles the champions

لله بيتٌ بالحجاز محرَّمٌ

لا يدخل الإنسانُ فيه حلالا

God has a house in Hejaz prohibited

Man cannot enter it while in a state of ritual purity

ما إن رأيتُ له إذا حققته

حقاً يقيناً في البيوتِ مثالا

I did not see a likeness for Him, when I actualized Him

Truly, certainly, among the houses as an example

قد أذنَ الرحمن فيه بحجه

فاتوه رُكباناً به ورجالا

The Merciful permitted pilgrimage to it

So go to it as riders and walkers

بيت رفيع بالمكانةِ سابقٌ

أضحى له البيتُ الضراحُ سَفالا

A lofty house of high status preceding

The enclosure has become lowly compared to it

هو للدخول وذا يُطاف بذاته

كالعرشِ أصبحَ قدره يتعالى

It is for entering, and it is circumambulated in its essence

Like the Throne its value became transcendent

والقلبُ أشرف منه في ملكوته

ملك الوجود وحازَه أفضالا

And the heart is nobler than it in His kingdom

The King of existence and attained its virtues

لولا اتساعُ القلبِ ما وسع الذي

ضاقَ السما عنه فأصبح آلا

If not for the heart's vastness, He who

The heavens narrowed around would not fit

بالقيعة المثلى من أرضِ وجودِنا

ولذا كنى عنه بلا وبلالا

In the best spot of the land of our existence

And thus He referred to it without and with Bilal

لا شيءَ يشبهه لذاك وجدته

في الفقدِ منصوباً لكم تمثالا

Nothing resembles it, so I found it

In absence erected for you as a statue

وفاكم الرحمن فيه حسابكم

قولاً وعقداً منةً وفعالا

And the Merciful sufficed you regarding it as your account

In speech and covenant, favor and deed

لا يلتفتُ من قال فيه إنه

يفري الكلى ويقطع الأوصالا

One who said it uproots kidneys and severs limbs does not pay attention

It was protected, and its existence was for its place

بالحفظ كان وجودُه لمكانه

ولذاك يحمل عنكم الأثقالا

And for that reason it carries your burdens

If not for my existence, I would not have known His existence

لولا وجودي ما عرفت وجوده

ولذاك كنتُ لكونه مغتالا

And for that reason I was planning His nonexistence

Whoever searched for Him planned my assassination

من بحثه كان اغتيالي كننه

فالبحثُ لي وله علوٌّ حالا

For the search is for me and elevation is for Him now

I pretended to be deceitful and cunning toward Him for the sake of His might

أمسيت فيه لكونه ذا عزة

دون الأنام مخادعاً محتالا

Above the people

When I saw the matter magnify His worth

لما رأيت الأمر يعظم قدرُه

ورأيته يزهو بنا مختالا

And saw Him boast about us arrogantly

The means of deception occurred through humiliation

حصلت أسبابُ الخداع بذلة

وتمسكن فيه فزدت دلالا

And I clung to it, so I increased coquetry

His humiliation, His humiliation is for our existence

إذلاله إذلاله لوجودِنا

فلذاك لم تظفر به إذلالا

So for that reason you did not gain humiliating Him

If not for the existence of His attributes in others

لولا وجودُ صفاتِه في غيره

مشهودةٌ ببراعةِ ما نالا

Witnessed with the skill of what was attained

God is jealous that He be attributed

إن الإله يغار أن يُلقى به

فبكفركم قال الذي قد قالا

So for your disbelief He said what the two said

When you became worthy of what I lowered

لما تأهل بالذي ما زلته

أصبحت للأمر العظيم عيالا

You became for the great matter dependents

And the Hadith came with its coolness and meter

وأتى الحديثُ بثرة وبنظمه

فشربتُ ماء كالحياةِ زُلالا

So I drank water like life, pure

God is Greater than being encompassed in description

الله أعظم أنْ يحيط بوصفه

خلقٌ ولو بلغ السماءَ ونالا

By creation, even if they reached the sky and attained

The people of existence altogether did not attain

ما ناله أهلُ الوجودِ بأسرهم

من نعته سبحانه وتعالى

From describing Him, Glorified and Exalted is He

Incapacity suffices them, though they reached the goal

العجز يكفيهم وقد بلغوا المنى

والجاهل المغرور مَن يتغالى

And the deluded ignorant one is he who boasts

Do not exaggerate in the religion of Divine Law, it

لا تغل في دينِ الشريعةِ إنه

قد جاء فيه نهيه وتوالى

Came in it, His prohibition and succession

The address of prohibition in our hearing

من خطابُ النهى في أسماعنا

حتى رأينا نورَه يتلالا

Until we saw its light dripping

Do not exaggerate in the religion of reality and tradition

لا تغلُ في دينِ الحقيقةِ والنقل

في الله ما قال الإله تعالى

Regarding God, what the Exalted God said

It is the belief of the believers, so do not increase

فهو اعتقادُ المؤمنين فلا تزد

إذ بلغوا في ذلك الآمالا

When they reached hopes in that