انظر إلى الكون وتسطيره

واعلم بأن السر في غيره

Look upon the universe and its arrangement

And know that the secret lies in something else

لا يطلب الله بصدق ولا

يشتاق أن يلقاه في سيره

None seeks Allah sincerely, nor

Yearns to meet Him in his journey

إلا الذي يؤمن بالغيب لا

يقنع بالعقل وتصويره

Except he who believes in the unseen, not

Content with the intellect and its depiction

ونفسه يعرفها أنها

داخلة في حكم تقديره

And knows his soul that it

Falls under the jurisdiction of His decree

عاجزة عنه تعالى فلا

تدرك منه غير تغييره

Powerless before Him the Exalted, thus it cannot

Perceive anything but His alteration of things

للشيء فالشيء إذاً هالك

ووجهه باق على خيره

For the thing, so the thing perishes

Yet His countenance remains in its benevolence

منامكم قد جاء في الذكر من

آياته فافطن لتذكيره

Your sleep has been mentioned in the Scripture among

His signs, so be conscious of His reminder

والناس قد جاء نيام كما

نبينا قال بتقريره

And people came asleep just as

Our Prophet said in his affirmation

ونائم يلقى خيالاً نشا

منه فيحتاج لتعبيره

And a sleeping one encounters an imagination arising

From it, needing its interpretation

وإنما التعبير من ظاهر

لباطن يعبر في غيره

Yet the interpretation is from the apparent

To the inward, it crosses over into something else

ليس كمثل الله شيء كما

قال تعالى عند تفسيره

Nothing is comparable to Allah as

He the Exalted said in His exegesis

إشارة يعرفها عارف

صفا من الغير وتكديره

An allusion recognized by the knower

Of clarity from the other and its turbidity

فافهم كلامي وتحقق به

ليشرق القلب بتنويره

So understand my words and ascertain through them

That the heart shines with its illumination