لا حيرة في الحق عند ذوي الهدى

بل عندهم منه الهداية تعرفُ

There is no bewilderment concerning the Real among those endowed with guidance;

rather, among them, guidance from Him is recognized.

قوم أزال حجابه عن قلبهم

وبهم يسوَّى بل بهم هو يوصف

They are a people from whose hearts He lifted His veil;

through them He is given form—rather, through them He is described.

لا زال فيهم نور ظلمة كونهم

أين الظلام وشمسه لا تكسف

Within them still shines the light of the darkness of their being.

Where is darkness, when its sun is never eclipsed?

والعين تلك العين واحدة كما

كانت قديماً عند من هو منصف

The Essence—that very Essence—is one, just as

it was from all eternity, in the judgment of the fair-minded.

والناس حاروا بالعقول لأنهم

راموا التكيف وهو ليس يكيف

People became bewildered through reason, because

they sought to assign Him a mode, though He cannot be given one.

فلو احتموا بحماه عن أفكارهم

وبه اهتدوا لا بالعقوللَأُتْحفوا

Had they taken refuge in His sanctuary from their thoughts,

and let Him—not reason—guide them, they would have been graced with gifts.

لكن إذا رام المهين رتبة

للمرء قام بها فمن ذا يحرف

But when the abased one aspires to a station

meant for man and takes his stand in it, who then can turn him aside?

فهو المكيف بالأوامر للحجى

وبحضرة القيوم ذاك مكيف

For He is the One who conditions reason through His commands,

and in the Presence of the Self-Subsisting, reason is what is conditioned.