تبارك الله لا أبغي به بدلا

ولا أراه سوى في الأهلِ والولدِ

Blessed is Allah, I do not want any substitute for Him

Nor do I see Him except in family and children

عجبتُ من غفلتي عنه به وأنا

منه كما قد علمتم بيضة البلد

I am surprised at my heedlessness of Him through Him while I

Am the white of His country, as you know

اعلم بأنَّ الذي بالعقل أطلبه

لو فات عن بصري ما فات عن خلدي

I know that what I seek with my intellect

If missed by my sight did not miss my heart

قد صحَّ بالنقل أنَّ العينَ واحدةٌ

مني ومنه فلا يحجبك بالجسد

It is true in transmission that the eye is one

Of me and of Him, so do not let the body veil you

فإنه عين كلي هكذا وردت

ظهراً وبطناً وما بالربعِ من أحد

For He is my whole eye, thus it came

Back and front, and none in the quarter from anyone

غيري وصورته في الحس صورتنا

بكلِّ وجه وانَّ المر في حيد

Other than me and His image in perception is our image

In every aspect, and the matter is in the spine

قد قال عني أموراً لست أعرفها

فيه فما جاء من غيِّ ومن رَشَد

He has said things about me I do not know

In Him, so whatever came of deceit and of righteousness

وقتاً وقتا يميزني عنه ويجمعني

وقتاً عليه به لا بدَّ من عدد

Sometimes and sometimes He distinguishes me from Him and combines me

And sometimes against Him through Him, there must be a number

قد حرت فيه فلا أدري أيثبت لي

عين افتقاري أو استغناي في الأبد

I wavered about Him, so I do not know if I prove for myself

The eye of my need or self-sufficiency forever

من أعجب الأمر أني حادث وأنا

عين القديم بما قد جاء بالسند

Of the strangest thing is that I am temporal and I

Am the eye of the Eternal with what came with the support

بأنه فيّ عين السمعِ والبصرِ

وأنه عينُ ما أسعى به ويدي

That He is in me the eye of hearing and sight

And that He is the eye of what I strive with and my hand

إنْ تمت قام لما أبغيه من عمل

به ويكسبه لي وهو ليس يدي

If it is complete, He stands for what I want

Of work through Him and earns it for me while He is not my hand

لأنه صح أنَّ العينَ حادثةٌ

مني وكيف يكون الأمر يا سندي

Because it is true that the eye is temporal

From me, so how can the matter be, O my support?

تقابل الأمر فينا والوجود لنا

حقاً يقيناً بلا ريبٍ ولا فندِ

The matter confronts us and existence is for us

Truly, with certainty, without doubt or rebuttal

إن كنته فلماذا قلت فيه بأن

الحق سبحانه ركني ومعتمدي

If I am His essence, then why did you say about Him that

The Truth, glory to Him, is my pillar and reliance

لولا أنا لم بليس النفي تتبعه

ولا ينفي أب عنه ولا ولد

If it were not for me, negation would not follow denial

Nor would the Father deny Him or a son

والكاف عيني بلا شك وزائدة

في قول أكثرهم فاقرأ ولا تزد

And the k is my eye without doubt and an extra

In the words of most of them, so read and do not add

في اللحن يثبت ما قلناه من شبه

ولم يكن كفء الله من أحد

In tone, it proves what we said of the resemblance

And no one was equal to God

لذا أتت سورةُ الإخلاص عن سبب

من يهتدي فيه بالهدي الصحيح هدي

Thus came the surah Al-Ikhlas about the reason

Whoever is guided in it with the correct guidance is guided

إني أنزهك عن تنزيه أكثرهم

بما أتت فيه أرسالٌ لكم وقد

I absolve you from the transcendence of most of them

With what came to you in revelations and

كما فديتك من تقديسِ عالمهم

في زعمه وهو في التقديس ذو عند

As I ransom you from their world's sanctification

In his allegation while he is the sanctification authority

كيف الفداءُ وما شيء يعادله

لو افتدى أحد بما فديت فدي

How is redemption, and what thing equals it

If someone ransomed with what I ransomed ransom