رأت رفرف الأكوان هندٌ فولت

إليه ومنها في طواه تدلت

She saw the fluttering of the worlds, so she inclined

Towards it, and from its varieties she dangled

وأوهمها من بارزات صنوفه

جلاجل آثارٍ فصاحت وغنت

It deceived her with the traces of its kinds

Ringing, singing traces she proclaimed and sang

وظنت بما بقني البقاء تخبطاً

فكذبها الشيء الذي فيه ظنت

And she thought with what keeps me existing is confusion

So the thing she thought in denied her

وضنت بتلك الفانيات تقاعداً

عن الدائم الباقي فبالوهم ضنت

And she assumed with those vanishing things disengagement

From the Everlasting, the Remaining, so with delusion she assumed

ألا فاندبيها يا هذيم فإنها

تدلت إلىالفاني الحقير فذلت

Oh woe, so mourn her, O Hathim, for she

Inclined to the vanishing, the despicable, so she disgraced

ولو أنها طوراً تخلت عن الذي

يبيد بدرع الباقيات تحلت

And if she, for a moment, had abandoned that

Which perishes with the armor of remaining, she would have worn

تجلت لها الأنوار من كل جانبٍ

فلم ترها للطيش يوماً تجلت

The lights would have appeared to her from every side

But she did not see them, for never did folly appear to her

فيا بصراً قد زاغ بالميل للسوى

ويا هما هامت وبالغير همت

So O an insight that strayed with inclination to evil

And O an ambition that coveted and for others coveted

خيالٌ لرائيك انجلى وهو كاذبٌ

شراب سرابٍ فانتبه وتثبت

An imagination for your sights has cleared and it is lying

A mirage drink, so be conscious and steadfast

تصدر شأن الغير في قلبك الذي

أنقلبت به يا هند بتيه وافلتي

Assume the affair of others in your heart which

You turned around in it, O Hind, confused and lost

وروحي بروح القدس واستبدلي التي

دنت وانطوت في مهمه العجز بالتي

And my spirit with the spirit of holiness, and change the one

Who drew near and folded into the mission of incapacity with the one

خذي العيش ما بين المخصب والصفا

وأطرف هاتيك الشعاب ومروة

Take life between the fertile and pure

And roam around those plateaus and Marwa

وإن بت بين الذروتين بفرجتي

خرسان خل العين منك بمكة

And if you stayed between the two hills in my revelation

Deafening the eye from you in Mecca

فللَه في الأطلال سرٌّ مطلسمٌ

على كل قلبٍ يستدير ومقلة

For God in the ruins is a guarded secret

Upon every heart that turns around and tosses

يفيض شؤن اللَه جل بخلقه

فتأخذ منها النفس ما قد أكنت

The affair of God, Majestic is He with His creation overflows

So the self takes from it what it harbored

ولا تلفتي عزم الفؤاد بكله

ولو رمش عينٍ عن رحاب المدينة

And do not divert the determination of the heart at all

Even if an eye glanced away from the plains of Medina

هنالك سر اللَه والحضرة التي

قد اختارها الباري على كل حضرة

There lies the secret of God and the presence which

The Creator chose over every presence

سرادق علم اللَه ينبوع فضله

ومهبط مجلى قدسه في البرية

The pavilion of God's knowledge, the spring of His grace

And descent of the manifestation of His holiness in the wilderness

مطاف قلوب الوالهين بحبهم

وفيفاء تلك القبضة الأزلية

A place of circumambulation by the hearts of the loyal in their love

And the thickets of the Eternal Grip

ونكتة يس السرارة في العما

ومعنى نظام الدولة الأبدية

And subtlety laying the mysteries in the pillars

And meaning of the system of the Eternal State

محمد علم اللَه ناسوت سره

وأحمد أهل الحضرة الصمدية

Muhammad, God's knowledge, essence of His secret

And Ahmed, people of the Eternal Presence

أقام بحم الحقائق صولةً

لها اندهش الأملاك لما تبدت

He established with the heat of truths a cry

At which the angels were astounded when it appeared

نعم وله الأملاك عنه بربهم

ولكن به قاموا بكل حقيقة

Yes, and to Him the angels from their Lord

And but through him they stood with every truth

ولولاه ما كانوا وإن سجودهم

لآدم مغنٍ عن طوال الأدلة

And without him they would not have been, and their prostration

To Adam, it sufficed over the length of proofs

على كل هامٍ من معاليه رفرفٌ

يشير له بالرفعة الأقدسية

Upon every infatuated with his noble character fluttering

Pointing to him with the most sacred eminence

وفي كل لبٍ من معانيه واردٌ

يجلجل أحكام الغيوب الخفية

And in every kernel of his meanings and inspiration arriving

Proclaiming the judgments of the hidden secrets

فيأخذها الاني بمولاه عارفاً

ويأخذها المرد حسب الطوية

So the intimate takes them, recognizing his Master

And the rejecter takes them according to speculation

سقى اللَه من أرجاء طيبة طيباً

من القاع فيه نقطة الأولوية

God irrigated Tayyiba with the good

From its bottom in it lies the point of priority

مقام إمام المرسلين عظيمهم

وسيدهم في كل علمٍ وحكمة

The station of the Imam of the Messengers, their greatest

And their master in every science and wisdom

ألا وهو الماء الذي في عيونهم

تدلى بنورٍ عم كل سريرة

Verily, it is the water in their eyes

Draped with light encompassing every subtlety

ورقرقة الفهم الذي في عقولهم

تحلى على تلك القلوب بنفحة

And twinkling of understanding that is in their minds

Adorned upon those hearts with a breath

هزبر الوحا كشاف كل عجاجةٍ

تنمق فيها نسج كل مهمة

Wherein the revelation removing every darkness flourishes

In it the fabric of every matter is refined

وسلطان ملك اللَه بادٍ وطامسٍ

ومنشور حكمٍ أو مصانٍ بطية

And the authority of God's possession evident and all-encompassing

And publication of a judgment or a protected scripture

تبدى به الألوان بعد انطماسها

ولولاه لم ترمق بعينٍ بصير

By it the colors appeared after their concealment

And without it, a discerning eye would not glance

فكان هو النور المجلى لعينها

بمبطن معنى نسجة المظهرية

So it was the manifest light for its sight

With the esoteric meaning of the exterior's fabric

له العلم الخفاق والكون ساكنٌ

وآدم في سرداب ماءٍ وطينة

To Him belongs the fluttering knowledge and still universe

And Adam in a cellar of water and clay

له العيلم المواج والأرض والسما

هباءٌ وهذا الكل في جزء نقطة

To Him belongs the churning knowledge and the earth and sky

Vanity while all this is in a fractional point

له المعجزات الساريات ومن سنا

مطالعها آيات أهل الحقيقة

To Him belong the occurring miracles and the one who legislated

Their horizons, signs of the people of truth

له الدولة الكبرى بكل دقيقة

له الجولة العظمى بكل طريقة

To Him belongs the Grand State in every minute

To Him belongs the Greatest Revolution in every way

له صين علم الغيب فاللوح عنه قد

تلقى كنوز العلم من كل شكلة

To Him belongs safeguarding the knowledge of the unseen so the Tablet

Has received treasures of knowledge from every problem

فما القلم الخطاط إلا لأجله

بدا من طوى طمس انشقاق الأكنة

Thus the pen is but a writer because of Him

It appeared from the folds of darkness splitting the genesis

فلولاه لم يكتب ولولاه لم يكن

على اللوح مكتوبٌ يجر بجملة

Without Him it would not have written, and without Him would not have been

Inscribed on the Tablet, operating in totality

أجل هو نور اللَه يجلى لخلقه

وما ضره جحد العيون العمية

Yes, He is the light of God manifesting to creation

And not harmed by the denial of blind eyes

بفرقانه قد فرق اللَه بين من

هداه وبين الجاحد المتعنت

By His distinction God distinguished between whom

He guided and the stubborn disbeliever

بدت منه للحظ القديم محجةٌ

تدل على أهليه أي محجة

By Him the ancient moment was given a conclusive argument

Indicating his right, O what an argument

فشرعته نافت على كل شرعةٍ

وحجته قامت على كل حجة

Thus his law denied every law

And his proof established every proof

جلى اللَه للأكوان من أهل بيته

مصابيح سرٍّ حققوا بالوصية

God clarified for the worlds from His family

Lamps of a secret who realized the appointment

فقاموا عن الزهراء أسباط مرسلٍ

سما المرسلين الزهر في كل خلة

Thus they stood from Fatima, apostles of a Messenger

Naming the Messengers, the flower in every cheek

رووا من طريق اللضه للقوم ما خفا

عن العارفين الشعث غبر السرية

They narrated from the path of sweetness to the people what was concealed

From the knowers, disheveled, dust covered path

وجاء لنا أصحابه الغر بالذي

به قد قضى عدلاً بأقوام سنة

And his companions came to us, recognizing what

He had judged with equity among people of an era

وكلٌّ له فيما انتحاه مزيةً

شريفة عنونٍ وأي مزية

And each has in what he attained an

Honorable distinction, and what a distinction

ولم نر يوماً في جميع دروبهم

وأنحائها غير الهدى للشريعة

And we have not seen a day in all their paths

And sides except guidance to the way

على إثر روح العالمين تزاحمت

جنائبهم في السير من كل وجهة

Upon the footsteps of the Spirit of the Worlds they crowded

Their sides in conduct from every direction

وجاء رجال اللَه في اللَه بعدهم

على إثرهم يا خير إثرٍ وعصبة

And the men of God came after them, upon their heels

O best heels and faction

يرومون وجه اللَه جل جلاله

قل اللَه أو خل الحوادث واصمت

Seeking the face of God, Majestic is His Majesty

Say God or leave the events and be silent