إن الوجود الحق بي يتلفظُ

إن الوجود الحق بي يتلفظُ

وبكل ما يلقى إليَّ ويلفظُ

وبكل ما يلقى إليَّ ويلفظُ

Indeed, true Being speaks through me,

Existence of truth speaks through me

and through all that is imparted to me and uttered.

And all that comes to me and speaks

والكل فان وهي تقديراته

والكل فان وهي تقديراته

كالبرق لما في الدجى يتلظظ

كالبرق لما في الدجى يتلظظ

And all is fleeting, and these are His decrees,

All is fleeting, His decrees

like lightning when it flashes in the darkness.

Like lightning in the darkness flickers

فالكائنات كلامه عن أمره

فالكائنات كلامه عن أمره

ناش له الروح الشريفة ملحظ

ناش له الروح الشريفة ملحظ

So all beings are His speech, from His command

The creation, His speech of His will

arising; the noble spirit is its point of perception.

The noble spirit brought into being for Him to behold

وله كلام ثابت في نفسه

وله كلام ثابت في نفسه

وهو القديم به البرية توعظ

وهو القديم به البرية توعظ

And He has speech abiding within Himself,

He has eternal speech within Himself

and it is eternal; through it creation is admonished.

Ancient, with it the lands are admonished

من غاظه أمر فقد جهل الذي

من غاظه أمر فقد جهل الذي

هو حاكم وهناك منه أغيظ

هو حاكم وهناك منه أغيظ

Whoever is angered by a matter has failed to know the One

Whoever is vexed by His command is ignorant

who rules; and there is something still more enraging than it.

Of the Ruler, though by Him more vexed still

والأمر علم الله في ملكوته

والأمر علم الله في ملكوته

والملك جاهله هناك مقيِّظ

والملك جاهله هناك مقيِّظ

And the command is God's knowledge in His dominion;

The command is God's knowledge in His dominion

and as for the kingdom, one ignorant of it dwells there in summer heat.

The kingdom's ignorant one, He there awakes

فيظل مطموس البصيرة في عمىً

فيظل مطموس البصيرة في عمىً

عن رشده شَرِه الدنية لغمظ

عن رشده شَرِه الدنية لغمظ

So he remains, his inner sight effaced, in blindness

So he remains blinded in blindness

to his own right guidance—greedy for baseness, ravenous.

From guidance, by base desires of the world obscured

الله أكبر ما أعز إلهنا

الله أكبر ما أعز إلهنا

وأجله فيما يرق ويغلظ

وأجله فيما يرق ويغلظ

God is greatest! How mighty is our God,

God is greatest, how mighty our God

and how majestic He is, in the subtle and the dense!

And most majestic in all that softens and hardens

متنزه متقدس عن كل ما

متنزه متقدس عن كل ما

تدري العقول وكل فكر يعكظ

تدري العقول وكل فكر يعكظ

Transcendent and holy, beyond all that

Transcendent, sanctified above all

minds comprehend and every thought confines.

That minds can conceive and thoughts reflect

وهو الذي ظهرت بنا آياته

وهو الذي ظهرت بنا آياته

وتفصلت فبذكره نتلمظ

وتفصلت فبذكره نتلمظ

And He is the One whose signs appeared through us

He who revealed to us His signs

and unfolded distinctly; so in remembering Him we lick our lips.

And by His remembrance we are revived

ولكم فتى فتنته صورة حكمه

ولكم فتى فتنته صورة حكمه

هو نائم لكنه مستيقظ

هو نائم لكنه مستيقظ

And how many a young man the form of His decree has beguiled!

To you, then, a youth whose trial is the form of His rule

He is asleep, yet he is awake.

Though sleeping, he is awake

إن الوجود الحق يظهر دائماً

إن الوجود الحق يظهر دائماً

ما عنده أزلاً كذا هو يحفظ

ما عنده أزلاً كذا هو يحفظ

Indeed, true Being always reveals

Existence of truth always appears

what is eternally with Him; thus He preserves it.

Without beginning, so it is preserved