1. محمدُ الإسمِ حمدُ الرسم معلومُ

    وليس يحكيه منطوقٌ ومفهومُ

    Muhammad by name, praise in written form, is known.

    And neither what is spoken nor what is understood portrays him.

  2. لأنه السر فالأسرار تعرفه

    فكن به السر إن الجهر موهوم

    For he is the secret, so the secrets know him.

    So be the secret through him; indeed, open utterance is illusory.

  3. ميم الدوائر بالتحقيق معتبر

    في كل شيء فمقروء ومرقوم

    The mīm of the circles is, in truth, reckoned

    In everything, and thus read and inscribed.

  4. والمد معناه في العرف الزيادة من

    شيء يقال وما قد قيل محتوم

    And lengthening, in common usage, means an increase from

    Something spoken; and what has been said is decreed.

  5. حاميمُ في قلبه فهي الزيادة مع

    حاميمُ حاميمُ سرُّ السبعِ مكتوم

    Ḥā-Mīm is in his heart; thus it is the increase, together with

    Ḥā-Mīm, Ḥā-Mīm—the secret of the seven is concealed.

  6. حاء وميم إليها الدالُ منتسبٌ

    لأنه سرها يخفيه حلقوم

    Ḥāʾ and mīm—the dāl is related to them,

    For it is their secret, which a throat conceals.

  7. حرف شريف له التحريف في بشر

    قد اعتراهم على تحريفه شوم

    A noble letter, subject to distortion among mortals;

    Ill fortune has beset them for distorting it.