أَوَّلُ وَجدي مالَهُ آخِرُ
وَباطِني بَينَ الوَرى ظاهِرُ
The beginning of my rapture has no end;
my inward reality stands manifest among all creation.
وَشَرعَتي في الحُبِّ مَبذولَةٌ
يَؤُمُّها الوارِدُ وَالصادِرُ
My law in love is freely offered;
all who come and go believe in it.
وَسُنَّتي فيهِ لِأَهلِ التُقى
يَرفُضُها مِن جَهلِهِ الفاجِرُ
My way in love is for the God-fearing;
the wicked man rejects it out of ignorance.
وَدَعوَتي جامِعَةٌ لِلوَرى
يَدعو بِها المُؤمِنُ وَالكافِرُ
My summons embraces all creation;
believer and unbeliever alike proclaim it.
وَسَرحَةُ الآرامِ في رامَتي
آنِسَةٌ لَيسَ بِها نافِرُ
The gazelles’ range in my Rāmah
is tame; none there shies away.
وَزائِغاً أَصبَحَ عَن رُشدِهِ
لِغَيرِ مَغنى مَشهَدي الزائِرُ
And astray from his sound sense has become,
for no cause, the visitor to my shrine:
فَمُنكَري لَيسَ لَهُ عارِفٌ
وَخاذِلي لَيسَ لَهُ ناصِرُ
The one who denies me has no one to recognize him;
the one who forsakes me, no one to support him;
وَمَوثَقي لَيسَ لَهُ مُطلِقُ
وَمُطلَقي لَيسَ لَهُ آسِرُ
the one who fetters me, no one to release him;
and the one who releases me has no captor.
Sol 5.6