لَو كُنتَ مِنّي ما غَبتَ عَنّي

وَلا تَغَيَّرتَ عَن كَياني

If you were of me, you would not be absent from me

Nor would you change from my essence

وَلَم أَزَل سامِعاً بَصيراً

أُجيبُ بِالنُطقِ مَن دَعاني

I would still be hearing and seeing

Answering with speech those who call upon me

وَلَم أَجِد بِالرُقادِ فَقدي

مِنّي وَذو يَقظَةِ يَراني

I would not find, with slumber, my loss

Of me, while the wakeful one sees me

وَلَم تَسِر بي نوقُ المَنايا

عَن رَبعِ سِربي دونَ الأَماني

The stars of death would not travel with me

Beyond the quarter of my encampment, short of wishes

وَكانَ مَن راحَ لي مُطيعاً

يَقهَرُ بي كُلَّ مَن عَصاني

And whoever went far from me obedient

Would overcome through me all who disobeyed me

بَل أَنا مِمَّن إِلَيَّ لَمّا

ضَلَلتُ عَنّي بِهِ هَداني

Rather, I am of those whom when

I went astray from myself, He guided me

وَلِيُّ فَضلٌ عَلى البَرايا

يَنشُرُني كُلَّما طَواني

My Lord has bounty over the wilderness

He spreads me out whenever difficulties constrict me

بِهِ أَراني كَما أَراهُ

فَأَثبَتُ النَقِيَّ بِالعَيانِ

Through Him I see myself as I see Him

So I prove the pure with vision

وَعَن حُلولٍ وَعَن أُفولٍ

وَعَن تَناءٍ وَعَن تَدانِ

And above descent, setting,

Thinning out and approaching