للزاي في شأن الخلافة زينة

للزاي في شأن الخلافة زينة

زالت بها في العين تقديراتها

زالت بها في العين تقديراتها

For zāy there is an adornment in the matter of vicegerency.

The letter Z has glory in the caliphate

Through it, its determinations vanished in concrete reality.

With which its value in the eye has vanished

فهي النبوة لا ولا ونعم نعم

فهي النبوة لا ولا ونعم نعم

والذات قد سترت بحكم صفاتها

والذات قد سترت بحكم صفاتها

So it is prophethood: no and no, and yes, yes.

It is the prophecy, not at all, yes yes

And the Essence has indeed been veiled by virtue of its attributes.

And the essence has been veiled by its attributes

زبر الكتاب حروفه ومرادهم

زبر الكتاب حروفه ومرادهم

معنى الحروف بسر تركيباتها

معنى الحروف بسر تركيباتها

The Book's writing is its letters, and their intent

The lines of the book, its letters and their intentions

Is the letters' meaning through the secret of their combinations.

The letters' meaning in the secret of their compositions

ولنور هذا الحرف أفلاك بها

ولنور هذا الحرف أفلاك بها

تجري كواكبه على حركاتها

تجري كواكبه على حركاتها

And the light of this letter has celestial spheres in which

And for the light of this letter there are spheres

Its stars move according to their motions.

In which its stars move according to their motions

وهو الذي ثبتت به صور الملا

وهو الذي ثبتت به صور الملا

حسب الذي قبلت بكيفياتها

حسب الذي قبلت بكيفياتها

And it is that by which the forms of the multitude were established,

It is that by which the forms of the angels were affirmed

According to what they received through their modes of being.

According to what they accepted in their qualities