إن من آيات ربي هو قالْ

نومَكم كل نهار وليالْ

Indeed, among the signs of my Lord, He said:

Your sleep every day and night,

وكذا الناس نيامٌ قاله

من أتى بالحق في صدق المقالْ

And so people are asleep, He said it

Who came with the truth in the sincerity of speech

وإذا ماتوا يقول انتبهوا

ومضى عنهم به حكم الخيال

And when they died, He said: Wake up!

And He passed by them as per the rule of imagination

فافهموا ذا القول يا أمته

تهتدوا للحق من غير جدال

So understand this saying, O His nation

Be guided to the truth without contention

كل ما أدركتموه صوَرٌ

في منام من جلال وجمال

Everything you have perceived is an image

In a dream of majesty and beauty

عَبِّروه تعرفوه واجزموا

أنه الحق تعالى ذو الجلال

Interpret it and know it and ascertain

That He is the Exalted Truth, the Majestic

مطلقٌ في نومكم تلقونه

في قيود كلُّها عنه محال

Free in your sleep you meet Him

In shackles, all impossible in relation to Him

ما له كيفٌ لا كيفيةٌ

يتجلَّى بنساءٍ ورجال

He has no "how", no "how-ness"

He manifests as women and men

وكبارٍ وصغارٍ مثل ما

جاء في القرآن عنه وهو قال

And elders and youngsters, as

Came in the Quran about Him, and He said

قال إنَّا كلَّ شيءٍ فارفعوا

لامَ كلٍّ خبراً يتلوه تال

He said: "Indeed, all things - so raise

For each thing a report recited in succession"

وكذا قال له ما في السما

وات والأرض وكم قال مثال

And so He said to him what is in the heavens

And the earth and how much examples He said

يا نياماً عبِّروا الرؤيا به

هو حقٌّ وسوى الحق ضلال

O sleepers, interpret the vision through Him

He is the Truth, and other than the Truth is misguidance

كل شيءٍ هالكٌ قال وَكُل

مَنْ عليها هو فانٍ بالزوال

Everything is perishable, He said: and everyone

Upon it will perish with evanescence

واقرأوا القرآنَ مثلي تجدوا

كلَّ ما قد قلته كلَّ الكمال

And read the Quran like me you will find

Everything I have said perfectly

لا أنا أيضاً ولا أنتم ولا

كل شيء من مياه وجبال

Neither me, nor you, nor

Anything of seas and mountains

بل خيلات عقول ظهرت

في منام وهو رب متعال

But imaginations of intellects appeared

In a dream, and He is the Exalted Lord

إنه الله وجودٌ واحدٌ

حكمه فينا حرام وحلال

He is God, the One Existence

His rule over us the lawful and unlawful

وهو حق وسواه باطل

وإلى الحق رجوع ومآل

And He is the Truth, and other than Him falsehood

And to the Truth is the return and destination

وإليه ترجعون اللهُ قد

قال في القرآنِ والسبع الطوال

And to Him you will return, Allah has

Said in the Quran and the seven long ones

أينما أنتم تولوا ثم وج

هُ الإِله الحق محمود الفعال

Wherever you turn, then the face

Of God is the true, the Appraised, the Doer

لا تصدق أنت رؤياك كما

للخليل القول قد كان يقال

Do not believe your dream as

The saying was to the Friend said

واتبع التعبير في الرؤيا تَفُز

بالمنى لا بجواب وسؤال

And follow the interpretation in the vision, you will win

The purpose, not by answer and question

هذه الغاية في العرفان لا

ما يقول الغير من قيل وقال

This is the ultimate in gnosis, not

What others say of saying and speaking