بيني وبينك يا قديم جدارُ
هو جملتي بك حادث يا جارُ
Between you and me, O ancient one, is a wall
It is my whole statement about you, O neighbor
والكنز أنت وراء ذلك كله
والطلسمات العقل والأفكار
You are the treasure behind all that
And the talismans, the mind and thoughts
فتحت رياضتنا إليك طريقة
والشرع باب والحقيقة دار
Our meditation opened a way to you
The sacred law a door, the reality a house
وبدا جمالك للعيون وزال عن
وجه القلوب من الغيوب خمار
Your beauty appeared to the eyes and was removed from
The faces of hearts from the unseen a veil
يا طلعة هي للمتيم جنة
تجري بها من تحتها الأنهار
O rise! It is for the longing one a paradise
Under which rivers flow
أنهار أنواع العلوم فما السوى
إلا الحقائق منك والأسرار
Rivers of various sciences so nothing but
The truths from you and secrets
بتنا وأصبحنا نراك فليلنا
من نور وجهك يامليح نهار
We spent the night and saw you so our night
From the light of your beautiful face became day
ولقد نزلت فكنت جملة كوننا
وتفككت عنا بك الأزرار
You descended so you were our whole existence
And the knots were untied from us by you
والوجه شقق بالظهور ثيابنا
حتى بدا وأزيلت الأستار
The face was ripped by appearing our clothes
Until it appeared and the curtains were removed
الله أكبر هذه ذات الذي
نحن الشؤن لديه والأطوار
God is the Greatest this is the essence which
We are its conditions and states
والماء أيضا والتراب له به
كان التجلي والهوا والنار
The water also and dust through it
Was the manifestation, air and fire
وكواكب الأفلاك قبل ظهورنا
أصل لنا تزجى بنا وتدار
Stars of orbits before our appearance
Revolve around us and turn
والعرش منشأنا وكرسي الملا
هيآتنا ونفوسنا الأقدار
The throne our origin and chair of authority
Our forms and souls the predetermined
ولنا السموات العلية كونت
والأرض والظلمات والأنوار
For us were made the highest heavens
Earth, darkness and light
ولأجلنا ظهر الوجود بكل ما
هو ظاهر وأنارت الأسحار
And for our sake appeared existence with all
That is apparent and dusk was illuminated
ودوائر حركاتهن تناسقت
بعض لبعض ما لهن قرار
Circles of their movements harmonized
Some to some, no stability for them
كالبرق في التغيير وهي جوامد
عند النواظر فاسمها أغيار
Like lightning in changing while they are solids
To the observers so their name is others
طوراً هناك وتارة هي هاهنا
ظهر اللطيف بهن والجبار
Sometimes there, at times here
The Subtle appeared through them and the Compeller
ووراءهن حقيقة مطوية
منشورة حارت بها الأبصار
Behind them a folded truth
Bewildered by it the sights
أسماؤها أسماؤهن وذاتها
هي ذاتهن لمن له استبصار
Their names are her names and their essence
Is her essence to whom has insight
وهي المقدسة المنزهة التي
جلت فتاه بها الجميع وحاروا
She is the most sacred, the most pure who
All were astonished by her glory and confused
وتحققوا بالعجز عن إدراكها
وبها إليها في الكمال يشار
They verified through failing to grasp her
And through her to her perfection is indicated
عرفوا بها منهم حقائق أنفس
خفيت فكان بنورها الإظهار
Through her they knew truths of themselves
Hidden so by her light was the disclosing
والحكم منها نازل في حقهم
شهدت به الآيات والأخبار
Judgment from her descends regarding them
Witnessed by the verses and news
ولأجله جاء الخطاب بعزهم
ولهم تزايد عندها المقدار
And for it came the speech of their honor
For them increased through her the measure
لولا مقالة كن لشيء لم يكن
هي هذه الكلمات والأذكار
If not for the word "Be" nothing would be
These are the words and remembrances
وكذاك لولا الحكم كان الكل في
نقص ولم يك للكمال منار
Likewise if not for the judgment all would be
In deficiency and no lighthouse for perfection
وتشابه الإنسان والحيوان إذ
رجل يقال مكوّن وحمار
Resemblance of man and animal when
It is said composed and donkey
هذا هو الحق اليقين وغيره
قول عليه تَعَيَّنَ الإنكار
This is the certain truth and other than it
A saying on it was necessitated denial
