يا مَنْ خَفَى ولَمْ يَزَل

ما أبْيَنَكْ ما أظْهَرَكْ

O You who is hidden yet always present

How manifest yet concealed You are

إِن كانْ تَغِيبْ عَنْ بَصَري

بِعَيْنِ قَلْبِي نُبْصِرَكْ

If You disappear from my sight

With the eye of my heart I see You

لَمْ قَطُّ عَنِّي تَخْتَفِي

ولا خَفَى سِرُّكَ عَلَيْ

Never have You been absent from me

Nor is Your secret hidden from me

أمْرُكْ وحُكمَكْ وقَضاك

يَجْرِي عَلَى مَيِّتْ وحَيْ

Your command, judgment and decree

Apply to the living and dead alike

نَنْظُرْ لِلأشْيَا فَنَرَى

لُطْفُكْ تَوَلَّى كُلَّ شيْ

We look at things and see

Your subtle kindness pervades all

وأنْتَ دايِمْ لَم تَزَلْ

بالحكْمِ تقْهَر بَشَرَك

You are eternal, never changing

Your power overwhelms humankind

والْجَانِي مِنَّا والْبَرِي

كَيْفْ ينْتَهَوا عن أمْرَكْ

Both the wrongdoer and the righteous

How can they evade Your command?

يا منْ يُريد يرى الإله

يَنْظُر جَميعَ الْمَوجُودات

Whoever desires to see God

Let him look upon all existence

صامِتْ وناطِق وَجمَادْ

مِن حَيوان ومِن نبات

Silent or articulate, inanimate or alive

In every being he will see God

في كُلِّ شَيْ يَرَى الإلهْ

مِن غَيْر حُلُولْ ولا جِهاتْ

Without incarnation or dimension

Without dimension or incarnation

مِنْ غَيْر جِهَاتٍ ولا حُلُولْ

تَرَى إلاها دَبَّرَكْ

You will see only the God who ordained you

And all He created and sowed

وكُلُ ما هُ بِهْ ذَرَى

يُريدْ بِهِ يَخْتَبِرَكْ

He wants to test you with

O One without equal or likeness

يا وَاحِدا لَسْ لُو نظيرْ

ولا مَثِيل ولاَ شَبِيهْ

Without peer or parallel

And he who recites and says

ومَنْ لِمُنْشِدْ يَقُول

نَقْطع طَويلَ اللَّيْلِ بِيهْ

We pass the long night with Him

Forgive the reciter who says

اغفرْ لِمُنْشِدْ يَقُول

ومن بِذا القولِ إِليهْ

And the one who makes this plea to Him

O night, be long or do not be long

يا ليلُ طُلْ أو لا تطولْ

فرضٌ عليَّ سَهَرَك

I am obliged to keep You company

If my moon stayed with me

لو باتَ عِندي قمرِي

ما بتُ أرعى قَمَرَك

I would not tend to Your moon