Claude 2

  1. سلم لربك لا تحاذر

    وافطن لاسرار المظاهر

    Submit to your Lord, do not be wary,

    And be aware of the secrets of appearances,

  2. فلكل شيء باطن

    في محكم المعنى وظاهر

    For everything has an inner essence,

    Precise in meaning and outward in form.

  3. نظم الشؤن كما ارا

    د بعلمه نظم الجواهر

    He arranged the affairs as He saw fit,

    With His knowledge arranging the jewels.

  4. هذا تقي مؤمن

    رحب الجنان وذاك كافر

    This one is a pious believer,

    With paradise spread wide, and that one an infidel.

  5. وفتى تحقق بالهدى

    وفتى بليل الشك حائر

    And a youth realized guidance,

    While a youth wanders lost in the night of doubt.

  6. ومغيب بحطامه

    ومذهب بالفقر حاضر

    And one is wrecked by his ruin,

    While another is present in the poverty of asceticism.

  7. هذا تغالطه الشعو

    ب وذاك توهمه العشائر

    This one is deceived by passions,

    And that one deluded by lineages.

  8. والكل في بحر المعا

    مع للفناء المحض صائر

    Yet all are on the sea of trials,

    Inevitably bound for utter annihilation.

  9. سدلت على هذي المظا

    هر من يد الغيب الستائر

    The curtains were lowered on these appearances,

    By the hand of the Unseen.

  10. فلدي التراب تساوت ال

    اشباه طرا والنظائر

    So to dust, the likes and counterparts

    Became equal, noble and base.

  11. كنز الوجود مطلسم

    والعقل عن فحواه قاصر

    The treasure of existence is sealed,

    And reason falls short of its essence.

  12. في دفتر معدودة

    فيه الكبائر والصغائر

    In a scroll of counted days,

    Great sins and small are recorded.

  13. وتقلب الاحوال في

    ه لكل ذي عينين ظاهر

    And conditions shift in it,

    Visible to every two eyes.

  14. مطوية برحى دوا

    هيه الاصاغر والاكابر

    Rolled up in the millstones of fate,

    Both the mighty and weak.

  15. رح كيف شئت على زعو

    مك بالجرأة يا مكابر

    Go as you wish in your delusion, O defiant one,

    For a day will come that you will fall, even if you flew like a bird.

  16. لا بد من يوم تصا

    د به ولو حلقت طائر

    And you will return from the highest minarets,

    To the low ground of graves.

  17. وترد من اعلا المنا

    بر للحضيض من المقابر

    You, my Lord, are present, so remember,

    For one who remembers will not be disappointed.

  18. ولأنت يا رب الحضو

    ر اذكر فليس يخيب ذاكر

    And give thanks, that you may be raised up thanking,

    Good in your sources and destinations.

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