من قال في الله بتوحيده

قد قال ما قال به المشركُ

Whoever speaks of God by declaring Him one

has said of Him what the polytheist says.

وإن يقل أكثر من واحد

فهو الذي بربه يشرك

But if he should say, “More than one,”

then he is one who associates partners with his Lord.

قد حار فيه أهل توحيده

ثم مع الحيرة لا يترك

Those who affirm His oneness are bewildered in Him;

yet even amid bewilderment, He is not forsaken.

فاحفظ جميع القول فيه تكن

في ذاك من غيركم أدرك

So preserve all that is said of Him, and you will be

more discerning in this than your peers.

فإنه يقبل أقوالكم

في ذاته إن كان لا يُدرك

For He admits all your sayings

concerning His Essence, though He cannot be apprehended.

وخلقه الأشياءَ ما بيننا

محققٌ يدري به المدرِك

His creation of the things here among us

is established—the perceiver knows Him through it.

فالكلُّ لله على ما ترى

عين الذي قيل هو المدرك

For all belongs to God, as you see,

and is the very thing said to be apprehended.

وكلّ شيء نحن فيه به

فذلك الشيءُ لنا مدرك

And every thing in which we abide through Him—

that thing is apprehensible to us.