تَحْتَ سَبْرِ المُرَفْرَفِ الأزَلِيِّ

والنِّماطِ المُسَدَّلِ الأبَدِيِّ

Under the eternal fluttering canopy,

And the everlasting dangling drapery,

وعَريضِ السِّتْرِ الَّذي نَشَرَتْهُ

راحَةُ القُدْسِ في الفَضا الغَيْبِيِّ

And the vast veil spread

By the hand of holiness in the unseen space,

وانْجِلاءِ الشُّؤُنِ من كُلِّ رَمزٍ

مَعْنَوِيٍّ في الطِّرزِ أو عَيْنِيِّ

And the unfolding of affairs from every

Abstract or concrete symbol,

وانْتِساقِ الأسرارِ سِرًّا فَسِرًّا

وامْتِزاجِ التَّركيبِ في كُلِّ شَيِّ

And the procession of secrets secretly and secretly,

And the blending of composition in everything,

والمُحوضِ البَحْتِ الغَموضِ المَعاني

تَحتَ سِرْبالِ طَوْرِهِ النَّوْعِيِّ

And the flooded, obscured, hidden meanings

Under its specific mystical attire,

وانْبِلاجِ الأشْكالِ لَوناً فَلَوْناً

بِبُروزِ المُفَسِّرِ الضَّوْئيِّ

And the emergence of forms color after color

With the appearance of the illuminating interpreter,

وإِحاطاتِ قدرَةِ الغَيْبِ في الكُ

لِّ وتَصْريفِ نَشْئِها الفَرْدِيِّ

And the comprehensions of the power of the unseen overall

And its individual origination,

والتَّدَلِّي من طِلْسَمِ الطَّمْسِ نَشْراً

قدْ تجلَّى من غارِ ذاكَ الطَّيِّ

And the dangling from the spell of darkness unfolding

Which was manifested from the cave of that good man,

والَّذي أَدرَكَ القُلُوبَ سَميراً

والَّذي أدرَكَ الفُهومَ بعِيِّ

And which grasped hearts completely,

And which grasped minds penetratingly,

والَّذي ناطَ في العُقولِ انْفِتاقاً

والَّذي مسَّها بذُهْلٍ أَبِيِّ

And which caused bursting open in minds,

And which touched them with stubborn ignorance,

والَّذي أَكْسَبَ الخَواطِرَ فَهْماً

وحَباها من نَشرِهِ العِطْرِيِّ

And which granted thoughts understanding,

And endowed them from its sweet diffusion,

والَّذي ردَّها عليْها حَيَارى

فارْتَدَتْ مِرْطَ تيهِها المَلْوِيِّ

And which returned them to themselves confused

So they turned back, winding in its confusion,

والَّذي قَلْقَلَ الخَيالَ فأَوْعا

هُ شُؤُناً من غيرِ رَسْمٍ وزِيِّ

And which stirred the imagination so it contained

Conditions without depiction or limitation,

والَّذي مدَّ في البَصائِرِ حالاً

فرأَتْ غيرَ مُبْصِرٍ مَرْئِيِّ

And which extended in sights a state

So they saw what cannot be seen,

وأَفادَ الأَبْصارَ إذْ تشهَدُ النُّو

رَ اغْتِرافَ الأَشْكالِ وَهْبَ مَلِيِّ

And benefited visions when witnessing light

Absorbing forms and a gentle gift,

وأَثابَ القُوى بُروزاً وطَمْساً

فهوَ مُعْطي القُوى لكلِّ قَوِيِّ

And rewarded strength with manifestation and concealment

For He gives strength to every strong one,

وطَوى الأَمْنَ في سفينَةِ نوحٍ

فاسْتَوَتْ بعدَها على الجُودِيِّ

And folded security in Noah's ship

So it settled after that on the generous sea,

وحَمى عبَهُ الخَليلَ من النَّا

رِ بضُرَّامِ وَقْدِها الجَمْرِيِّ

And protected His servant the Friend from the fire

Of torches and its burning embers,

وابنَ مَتَّى أَنْجاهُ من ظُلوماتِ ال

حُوتِ في قَعْرِ كِنِّهِ البَحْرِيِّ

And saved the son of Matthew from the darkness of the

Whale in the depths of its watery concealment,

وحَبا يوسُفَ الوِقايَةَ ضمنَ ال

جُبِّ في طَيِّ حِفْظِهِ القُدْسِيِّ

And granted Joseph protection within the well

In its holy concealment,

ثُمَّ أَدْلاهُ بعدَ ذلكَ للسِّجْ

نِ لِسِرٍّ بعِلْمِهِ مَخْفِيِّ

Then He lowered him after that to prison

For a secret reason in His hidden knowledge,

ثمَّ أَبْداهُ بالبُروزِ عَزيزاً

يا لِجَمْعٍ في مَهْمَهٍ فَرْقِيِّ

Then brought him out in prominence honored

What a gathering in a sublime mission!

وأَزالَ الغِشاءَ عن عَيْنِ يَعْقو

بَ بشَمِّ القَميصِ من بعدِ غَيِّ

And removed the veil from Jacob's eye

With the scent of the shirt after absence,

صَرَفَ الحُزْنَ عنهُ حينَ دَعاهُ

إنَّ هذا من شأْنِهِ الحِكْمِيِّ

He dispelled grief from him when he called him

Surely this is from His wise affair,

ردَّ بعدَ الفُقْدانِ مُلْكَ سُلَيْمَا

نَ بتَصْريفِ فعلِهِ الأَمْرِيِّ

He restored Solomon's kingdom after loss

By the action of His commanding affair,

وجَلى بالإِعْزازِ وَحْشَةَ مُوسى

حينَما فَرَّ لا بِظِلِّ وَلِيِّ

And revealed with honor Moses' fright

When he escaped without a guardian or protector,

وكَفى الرُّوحَ عَبْدَهُ الحَقَّ عيسَى

وَصْمَةَ القومِ بينَ نشرٍ وطَيِّ

And sufficed the Spirit His servant the Righteous Jesus

From the harm of people with spreading and concealment,

وحَبا المُرْسَلينَ فرْداً ففرْداً

نِعْمَةَ القُرْبِ والجَلالِ الجَلِيِّ

And granted individually, individually

Favor of nearness and majesty to the messengers,

وسَقى الأَنْبِياءَ كأسَ قَبولٍ

أبَدِيٍّ في المَحْضَرِ النَّشْئِيِّ

And quenched the prophets' cup of eternal acceptance

In the primal, generative presence,

وطَوى مُجْمَلَ الوُجوداتِ طُرًّا

بنِماطٍ وافْتَضَّهُ للنَّبِيِّ

And folded the totality of creatures

With standards that He chose for the prophet,

فانْجَلى من مِضْمارِها قُرَشِيًّا

حينَ يُنْمى أَفْديهِ من قُرَشِيِّ

So the Qurashite emerged from their arena

As his affection was nurtured from a Qurashite,

مُصْطَفاهُ خُلاصَةَ الخلقِ في العِلْ

مِ ونِبْراسُ نَوْعِها الآدَمِيِّ

His beloved, the essence of creation in knowledge

And the torch of its human genus,

مَوْجُ بحرِ الشُّهودِ في حضرَةِ السِّ

رِّ عِياناً وعينُ كلِّ نَبِيِّ

The wave of the ocean of witnessing in the presence of mystery

Witnessing and the eye of every prophet,

حُجَّةُ اللهِ لا يَزالُ على الخَلْ

قِ وطَمْطامَ عِلمِهِ الصَّمَدِيِّ

God's proof upon creatures lasting forever

And the power of his pouring prophetic knowledge,

نَهْزَةُ الرُّوحِ بانْتِساقِ التَّدَلِّي

والتَّجَلِّي ضِمنَ اسْتِواءٍ وَلِيِّ

The shiver of the Spirit with the procession of revelation

And manifestation within moderation and friendship,

مُفْرَدُ النَّوعِ واحِدُ الطَّوْرِ معنًى

وكَمالاً في الرَّشِّ قبلَ التَّزَيِّ

Singular in kind and perfect in meaning and perfection

Before amendment and refinement,

نُكْتَةُ العَدْلِ في ضَميرِ البَرايا

وهُداها إلى الطَّريقِ السَّوِيِّ

The essence of justice in the conscience of creation

And its guidance to the balanced path,

ذو الحَياةِ المَرْسومَةِ النَّقْشَ رَمْزاً

وصَريحاً في دَفَّتَيْ كلِّ حَيِّ

Possessor of life designed with symbolic engraving

Explicitly in the pages of each living one,

عَلَمُ الفرقِ في مُحاضَرَةِ الجمْ

عِ وسُلْطانُ مُلْكِها النَّبَوِيِّ

The flag of distinction in the assembly of the group

And the authority of its prophetic kingdom,

هاشِمِيُّ النِّجارِ في النَّسَقِ الأَزْ

هَرِ نوعاً من غَيْرِ ظُلْمَةِ فَيِّ

The Hashimite carpenter in the flowering line of descent

A species without any darkness of emptiness,

حَفْلَةُ الأُنْسِ سيِّدُ الجِنِّ والإنْ

سِ وبُرْهانُ شَكْلِها الإِنْسِيِّ

The celebration of intimacy, the master of jinn and mankind

And the proof of their human form,

نُقْطَةُ الكنزِ سَبْرُ أَرْصادِ رَمْزٍ

صَمَدِيٍّ في طِلْسَمٍ أحَدِيِّ

The point of treasure, the probing of the symbols

Of the Eternal in an impenetrable spell,

فائِقٌ رَتْقَ كلِّ سِرٍّ خَفِيٍّ

راتِقُ فَتْقَ كلِّ غَمْصٍ جَلِيِّ

Transcending the unraveling of every hidden secret,

Elucidating the disclosure of every covered ambiguity,

قد أَقامَ الحُدودَ عدلاً ووَفَّى

بوَفاءِ العُهودِ شأْنَ الوَفِيِّ

He established justice in limits and fulfilled

Loyalty in covenants, the work of the loyal one,

فهو سيفُ القَضا على كلِّ باغٍ

ومَنيعُ الحِمى لكلِّ وَلِيِّ

So he is the sword of destiny upon every rebel

And the stronghold of protection for every friend,

جاءَ بالشَّرْعِ وبالحَنيفِيَّةِ السَّمْ

حاءِ والخيرِ والنَّوالِ الوَفِيِّ

He came with the Law and the praiseworthy Hanifi way

And the good and handsome grace,

وحَبا العارِفينَ فَيَّاضَ نورٍ

ضاءَ منهُمْ في الطَّالِعِ القَلْبِيِّ

And granted the gnostics an overflowing light

That shone from them in the rising of the heart,

حَفَّهُمْ بالرِّضا فلاحَ عليهِمْ

نورُهُ من طِرازِهِ المَرْضِيِّ

He cloaked them in acceptance so his light

Radiated upon them in his pleasing quality,

كيفَ أَنْسى إحْسانَهُ وهو بعدَ الل

هِ سَيْفي وسِرُّ نَشْري وطَيِّي

How can I forget His benevolence when after God he is

My sword, my secret of diffusion, and my inclination,

وعِتادي وحُجَّتي وعِمادي

وظَهيري وناصِري ووَلِيِّي

And my instrument, my authority, my pillar,

My backer, my aid, and my patron,

وهو رُوحي بنَشْأَتي وبُروزي

وانْقِلابي ما بينَ مَيْتٍ وحَيِّ

And he is my spirit in my creation and manifestation

And my turning from death to life,

أَتْحَفَتْني يدُ العِنايَةِ منهُ

بجَمالٍ في النَّمْطِ مُصْطَفَوِيِّ

The hand of Providence gifted me from him

Beauty in specifically chosen form,

وجَلالٍ طَوى صُنوفَ نَوالٍ

أَسْكَرَتْني بكأْسِها المَدَنِيِّ

And majesty enveloping types of bestowal

That intoxicated me with its cup,

أَخَذَتْني منِّي فغُيِّبْتُ عنِّي

رَيِّضاً في رِحابِهِ الأَنْوَرِيِّ

It took me from myself so I was absent from myself

Agreeable in its luminous sanctuary,

وبسُلْطانِ أَمرِهِ للرِّفاعِي

مدَّ لي نَسْجَ حالِهِ الذَّوْقِيِّ

And by the authority of his command to the Exalted

He extended to me the weaving of his spiritual state,

وتوَلَّى أَمْري برُوحٍ جلتْ لي

حُكْمَ مِضْمارِ نَهْجِهِ الشَّرْعِيِّ

And assumed my affair with a spirit that showed me

The ruling of the course of his religious approach,

عَلَّمَتْني ذَوْقاً عُلومُ المَعاني

بعدَ خَوْضي لبحرِها اللَّفْظِيِّ

I was taught a taste in the sciences of meanings

After my diving into the ocean of its linguistic aspect,

قدْ قرأْتُ العُلومَ فَنًّا ففَنًّا

كُلَّ مَعْقولِها أَو النَّقْلِيِّ

I studied the sciences art by art

Every rational or transmitted one,

وتدبَّرْتُها وأَحْكَمْتُ عنها

حُكْمَ سَيْري في المنهَجِ الرُّوحِيِّ

And I pondered them and mastered about them

A ruling of my conduct in the spiritual method,

وأَفاضَ الرَّحمنُ لي من هُداها

كشفَ قلبٍ مُؤيَّدٍ مَرْعِيِّ

And the Merciful allowed me from His guidance their unveiling

An opening of a supported, grazed heart,

صانَهُ اللهُ من مَزالِقِ شطْحٍ

وغُرورٍ ومزجِ لَيٍّ بِلَيِّ

Protected by God from deviant excess

And arrogance and mixing of corruption with purity,

قامَ جُزْئِيُّهُ بضَحْضاحِ حالٍ

قدْ أتى بالمُرَقْرَقِ الكُلِّيِّ

Its particular acted with the brightness of a state

That came with the universal whole,

عَرَجَتْ بي عَنِّي إلى عالمِ القَدْ

سِ صِفاتي فغِبْتُ عن كلِّ شَيِّ

It ascended with me from me to the world of holiness

My attributes so I was absent from everything,

برَقيقٍ من الشُّهودِ أَنيقٍ

غيرَ مُسْتَظْهِرٍ بقَيْسٍ وطَيِّ

With a thin whisper of witnessing, subtle

Not displaying with any measurement or boundary,

عاجِزٌ والسَّعادَةُ اكْتَنَفَتْني

فدَعَتْني بالعارِفِ الأَحمَدِيِّ

Incapable while happiness enveloped me

So it called me with the Praiseworthy Ahmadi,

وعُبَيْدٌ ضَلِلْتُ فاجْتَذَبَتْني

ودَعَتْني بالسَّيِّدِ المَهْدِيِّ

And I am a slave who went astray so it drew me back

And called me with the Master Mahdi,

جَلْبَبَتْني الخَفاءَ فيه ظُهورٌ

عن شَميمٍ مُؤَنَّقٍ عَبْهَرِيِّ

It clothed me in invisible manifestation within it

Without any scent of sweet perfume,

رَقَمَتْهُ أَقلامُ دائرَةِ الغَيْ

بِ بلَوْحِ الوَلايَةِ العُلْمِيِّ

The pens of the circle of the unseen inscribed it

On the tablet of scientific guardianship,

فرَأَتْهُ الأَفْرادُ جيلاً فجيلاً

ضمنَ منشورِ جَفْرِهِ اللَّوْحِيِّ

So individuals saw it generation after generation

Within the published scroll of its divine revelation,

راقَبوني ليغْنَمَ الكُلُّ منِّي

سِرَّ قُدْسٍ من حاليَ النَّمَطِيِّ

They observed me so that everyone would gain from me

A secret sanctity from my exemplary state,

شَبَحَتْ لي عُيونُهُمْ لتَراني

من فَجاجِ المُطَلْسَمِ الغَيْهَبِيِّ

Their eyes appeared to me to see me

From the expanses of the veiled unseen,

جَهِلَ الأَكْثَرونَ إِبَّانَ وقتي

يا لقربٍ عن الشُّهودِ قَصِيِّ

Most were ignorant in my time

Oh what nearness far from witnessing!

حاوَلوا في العِراقِ منِّي بُروزاً

لو تَوَلَّوْا للجانِبِ الغَرْبِيِّ

They tried in Iraq to manifest me

If they had turned to the western side,

في نَواحي مِتْكينَ بالقُرْبِ منها

لي خِباءٌ في رَفْرَفٍ مَخْبِيِّ

Near Mosul I have a concealment

In fluttering concealment,

طَلْسَمَتْهُ يدُ العِنايَةِ كَنزاً

سوفَ يَبْدو بخِبْئِهِ الجَوْهَرِيِّ

The hand of Providence concealed it as treasure

Which will appear in its essential reserve,

تَنْتَقيهِ قُلوبُ قومٍ كِرامٍ

وتَراهُ رَدًّا لكُلِّ رَدِيِّ

The hearts of honorable people will select it

And see it as a rebuttal of every repeller,

يملأُ الأَرضَ من رَقائِقِ حالي

بالطَّريقِ المُقَوَّمِ الأَحْمَدِيِّ

It will fill the earth with subtleties of my state

In the balanced Ahmadi way,

راجِعٌ كلُّهُ إلى اللهِ بالل

هِ بنَصِّ البِشارَةِ المَرْوِيِّ

Every part of it referring back to God by God

In the narration of the narrated good tidings,

غالَطَ الحاسِدونَ فيهِ فَساداً

وعِناداً عن مُخْبِرٍ مَخْزِيِّ

The envious spoke falsely about it corruption

And stubbornness from a humiliating informant,

قولُنا قالَهُ النَّبِيُّ المُفَدَّى

يا لقولٍ مُصَدَّقٍ مَرْعِيِّ

Our saying is what the honored Prophet said

What an authenticated, grazed saying!

والَّذي قالَهُ الحَواسِدُ زوراً

قولُ زُعْمٍ في النَّعْتِ إبْليسِيِّ

And that which the envious said falsely

Is the claim of a diabolical attribution,

أيُّها الوارِثُ الكَريمُ بِحالي

رُحْ أَميناً عن لَوْثِ كُلِّ غَوِيِّ

O noble heir of my state

Depart trusted from the filth of every deviator,

اعْبُدِ اللهَ خاشِعاً بفُؤادٍ

خالِصٍ طاهِرٍ سَليمٍ نَقِيِّ

Worship God humbly with a heart

Pure, sincere, flawless, and immaculate,

واهْجُرِ المارِقينَ واغْلُظْ عليهِمْ

وابْتَدِرْهُمْ بمشْرَبٍ عُمَرِيِّ

And shun the dissenters and be harsh with them

And ambush them with an Umar-like outlook,

وتَباعَدْ عن رَبِّ بَدْعَةِ فِعْلٍ

أَهلِ زورٍ بسَبْكِهِ القَوْلِيِّ

And distance yourself from the Lord of heretical deeds

The people of falsehood in its verbal structure,

واقْطَعِ الخائِنينَ عنكَ وأَعْظِمْ

حالَ عبدٍ من الضِعافِ تَقِيِّ

And cut off the traitors from you and revere

The state of the worshipper from the weak who is devout,

وتَواضَعْ سِرًّا وكُنْ شامِخَ الطَّوْ

رِ جِهاراً للمَشْهَدِ الوَقْتِيِّ

And be humble secretly and towering openly

For the perspective of the time,

واحْفَظِ العهدَ للإِمامِ وباعِدْ

كلَّ خِبٍّ بكَيْدِهِ مَشْوِيِّ

And uphold the covenant to the Imam and remove

Every cunning one with his deceptive scheme,

أَهلُ شَقِّ العَصا عُصاةٌ فدَعْهُمْ

واغْتَنِمْ طَوْرَ صالِحٍ مَرْضِيِّ

The people of dissent with the staff are disobedient so leave them

And take advantage of the occasion of one righteous and pleasing,

واحْفَظِ اللهَ في الشُّؤُنِ جَميعاً

وتمسَّكْ بنَصِّهِ القُدْسِيِّ

And preserve God in all affairs

And hold fast to His holy text,

وارْوِ عنِّي الطَريقَ حالاً وذَوْقاً

حَسْبَ مَنْصوصِ نَهْجِهِ المَبْنِيِّ

And quench the path from me in state and taste

According to the stipulation of its well-founded approach,

وتوكَّلْ قلباً على اللهِ تُكْفى

هكذا قولُ جَدِّنا الأُمِيِّ

And rely on God in heart and you will suffice

This is the word of our illiterate grandfather,

وانْتَظِمْ بي وافْنِ الزَّمانَ بحُبِّي

إنَّ حُبَّ المَوْلى بحُبِّ الوَلِيِّ

And join me and occupy time with my love

For the love of the Master is in the love of the Guardian,

وانْطَبِعْ فيَّ إِنَّني لكَ عينٌ

فتَبَخْتَرْ ببُرْدِيَ الخَتْمِيِّ

And imprint yourself in me, I am an eye for you

So shine with my sealing coolness,