وافى كتاب ولِّينا الغزال

مني على شوقٍ له متوالِ

Our master's book has come, the gazelle

Brought to me, increasingly longing for him

وفضَضْتُ خاتمه الكريمَ فلم أجد

غيرَ الجمالِ مقيداً بوصالِ

I opened his precious seal, but did not find

Anything but beauty, restricted to union

فأخذته فالاً وسرت مبادراً

فوجدتُ ما أضمرته في الفال

So I took it as an omen and went ahead

And I found what I harbored in fortune-telling

فتنزَّلَ الأمرُ العليّ لخاطري

بحقائق الأمر العزيز العالي

Then the sublime command descended for my thoughts

With the realities of the mighty, lofty matter

فظهرتُ مرتدياً بثوبِ جلالة

بين العبادِ مؤزَّراً بجمال

So I appeared wearing the garment of majesty

Among the servants, girded with beauty

كلتا يديّ يمين ربي خلقته

والله قد أخفى عليَّ شمالي

Both my hands were created by my Lord’s right hand

And Allah has hidden my left hand from me

وخطوتُ عنه خطوةً وتْرية

منه إليه بأمرِه المتعالي

And I stepped away from it hesitantly

From it to it by its most high command

فلحظت ما قد كنتُ قبل علمته

فعلمتُ أني لم أزل عن حالي

So I glimpsed what I had been before I knew it

And I learned that I had never changed from my state

فالعينُ عين مشاهد في علمه

ما دام في كون وفي اضمحلال

For the eye is an eye that sees in His knowledge

As long as it exists and in annihilation

فإذا تخلص عن كيانٍ وجوده

بالموتِ عاين غير ما في البال

So when it is free from the existence of its being

By death, it sees something other than what was in the mind

ويكون يشهدُ فوق رتبةِ علمه

بشهودِه في عالم التِّرحال

And it comes to witness above the level of its knowledge

By its witnessing in the world of migration

فكأنَّ ما يبديه عَزَّ جلاله

من ذاتِه للعلمِ لمحة وآل

It is as if what His mighty majesty shows

Of His essence to knowledge is a glance and states