العلمُ بالله والعرفانُ لي ولقد

جمعتُ بينهما شرعاً وما جمعا

Knowledge of God and knowing Him I have

Combined them both religiously and they were not combined

فالعلمُ يجمعُ ما العرفانُ يفردُه

في الحد يجتمعان إنْ نظرت معا

Knowledge brings together what knowing singles out

In defining, together they are if you look at both

ولا يقال بأنَّ الحقَّ يعرفنا

وهو العليم بنا وهكذا شرعا

It cannot be said that the Truth knows us

And He is the All-Knowing regarding us and so religiously

لا تعلمونهم الله يعلمهم

هذي النيابة مهما كنتَ مستمعا

You do not know them, God knows them

This deputyship no matter how much you listen

ولم يقل فيه إن الله يعرفهم

فقل به إن تكن للحقِّ متبعا

And it was not said regarding Him that God knows them

So speak with it if you are a follower of the Truth

إن الأديبَ الذي يمشي على قدر

يوافق الحقَّ إن أعطى وإنْ مَنَعا

The literary man who walks according to his measure

Agrees with the Truth whether he gave or prevented

قد اقتفى أثرا ما عنده خبر

بمن تفرَّد في التعبير فاخترعا

Has traced a trace that he has no news of

With the one who was singular in expression and invented

الله كرَّمه إذ كان فضله

على سواه فلم يسنن ولا ابتدعا

God honored him when His grace was

Over others so he did not systematize or innovate

وإن تضاعف فيه الأجر فاستمعوا

ما يستوي مقتد فيه بمن شَرَعا

And if the reward in him is redoubled, then listen

It is not equal to follow in it the one who legislated

لولا الشريعةُ كان الشخصُ في عمه

إذا أراد اقترابا بالذي صنعا

If not for the Law, the person would be in his blindness

If he wanted nearness with the one who made

فبين الحقِّ ما الألبابُ تجهله

فمقبلٌ قابلٌ لكلِّ ما سمعا

So the minds are ignorant of what is between the Truth

Inclined, accepting of all that he heard

ومعرضٌ عنه في خسر وفي حيد

عن الصوابِ الذي عنه قد امتنعا

And turning away from it, so in loss and deviation

From the correct path from which he refused