يا من يحيرني في ذاته أبداً

تنزيهه والذي قد جاء في الشبه

O you who perplex me with your essence forever

Your transcendence and that which has come in the likeness

إنْ قلتُ ليس كذا قالت شريعته

صدِّق بتنزيهه العالي وبالشّبهِ

If I say it is not so, His law has said

Believe in His sublime transcendence and in the likeness

للحالتين معاً الذاتُ قابلةٌ

فأنت لا أنت إذ يدعوك بالشّبه

For both states together the essence is receptive

So you are not you when He calls you by the likeness

وقد رأى كلُّ ذي فكر وذيبَصَرٍ

الفرقَ بين وجودِ التبر والشبه

And every person of intellect and insight has seen

The difference between the existence of purity and likeness

إني وليتُ أمورَ الخَلق أجمعها

شرقاً وغَرباً وإني بيضة البلَدِ

If I were in charge of all creation's affairs

East and west, though I am the egg of the country

وما أنفِّذُ أمراً في الوجودِ فما

يبدو مقامي فما يدريه من أحد

And I do not execute any command in existence, so

My position does not appear, none knows it of anyone

وما أُغالط نفسي حين أسمع ما

أدعى به من إمامٍ سيِّد سَنَدِ

And I do not fool myself when I hear what

Is claimed by the master, pillar of authority

أتابعُ الحقَّ فيما شاءه وقضى

قبلَ الوقوعِ عن اذن السيِّد الصمد

I follow the truth in what He has willed and decreed

Before occurrence, by permission of the Eternal Lord

فينفذ الأمر بي كلّ آونةٍ

ولاترى الخَلَق إلا صورةَ الجسد

So the command is executed through me every instant

And creation sees nothing but the form of the body

عجزاً وفقراً وكتماً لا يزايلني

وإنني أحديّ الذات بالأحد

Incapacity, poverty, and concealment do not leave me

Though I limit the essence with the One

وعين ذكر مقامي ستره ولذا

صرَّحت إذ قبل الأقوامُ مستندي

And the eye of mentioning my station is its veil, and so

I have declared it since the people have accepted my authority

فقال قائلهم دعواه قد عريتْ

عن الدليل وهذا عين معتقدي

So one of them said, his claim has been stripped

Of evidence, and this is the essence of my doctrine