الناس موصوفون بالأفعالِ
بسائرِ الأقوال والأعمالِ
Human beings are subject to acts,
in all their sayings and their deeds,
من غير تأثير لهم في كل ما
يكون من ذلك باستئصال
without any power of their own to affect whatever
comes about thereby independently.
فإن معنى أنهم قد أثروا
أي أظهروا من عدم للحال
For to say that they have produced an effect means
that they brought something out of nonbeing at once.
والله وحده هو المظهر لا
سواه في الماضي والإستقبال
Yet God alone is He who brings things forth—no
one but Him, in past or future.
فإن تكن نفوسهم قد ادعت
إظهار فعل هم على الضلال
So if their souls should claim
to bring forth an act, they are astray.
لا يظهرون من جميع ما به
قد وصفوا فعلا من الأفعال
Of all the things ascribed to them, they bring forth
not a single act among all acts,
في ظاهر أو باطن وإنما
يظهره الخلاق ذو الجلال
whether outward or inward; rather, it is only
the Creator, Lord of Majesty, who brings it forth.
وكلهم خلقُ الإلهِ ربنا
مع كل الاَفعال على التتالي
And all of them are the creation of God, our Lord,
together with every act, one following another.
Sol 5.6