يا شمعة هي في كل الفوانيسِ

يا شمعة هي في كل الفوانيسِ

يخالف العقل هذا في التقايسِ

يخالف العقل هذا في التقايسِ

O candle that is in every lantern,

O candle that is in all the lanterns

reason disputes this through comparative reasoning.

This contradicts reason in comparing

وهو المحقق عند العارفين به

وهو المحقق عند العارفين به

كشف بكشف وتلبيس بتلبيس

كشف بكشف وتلبيس بتلبيس

Yet it is established among those who know Him:

It is the truth with the knowledgeable about it

unveiling through unveiling, and disguise through disguise.

Revealed by revelation and disguising by disguising

لم يبق مني به شيء سواه ولم

لم يبق مني به شيء سواه ولم

يظهر كما هو لي في وصف تقديس

يظهر كما هو لي في وصف تقديس

Through Him, nothing of me remained but Him, nor

Nothing of me remained but Him and no

did He appear to me as He is in a description of sanctification.

Appeared as He is to me in the description of sanctification

فزلت عني وزال الكون أجمعه

فزلت عني وزال الكون أجمعه

عندي كما وحشتي زالت وتأنيسي

عندي كما وحشتي زالت وتأنيسي

So I vanished from myself, and the whole cosmos vanished

So I slipped away from myself and the whole universe

for me, just as my loneliness and my solace vanished.

Slipped away from me as my loneliness slipped away and my companionship

وكان هذا بسر لاح لي زمناً

وكان هذا بسر لاح لي زمناً

هو الوجود وتفريعي وتأسيسي

هو الوجود وتفريعي وتأسيسي

And this was through a secret that appeared to me for a time:

And this was with a secret that shone on me for a while

it is existence, my branching forth and my foundation.

It is existence and my branching out and my foundation

من كل شيء تبدى لي فحققه

من كل شيء تبدى لي فحققه

قلبي فزال بتحقيقي وتطميسي

قلبي فزال بتحقيقي وتطميسي

From everything it appeared to me, and was affirmed

From everything He appeared to me so my heart realized Him

by my heart; then it vanished through my realization and effacement.

So the universe disappeared with my realization and concealment

فصرت لا هو عن ذوق ولست أنا

فصرت لا هو عن ذوق ولست أنا

وطهر الغيب بالأغيار تدنيسي

وطهر الغيب بالأغيار تدنيسي

Thus, through spiritual tasting, I became not He, nor am I myself;

So I became neither Him in taste nor myself

and the unseen cleansed me of the defilement of otherness.

And the unseen was purified by strangers my defilement

وقد بدا سر ذاك السر يخبرني

وقد بدا سر ذاك السر يخبرني

عن آدم العلم بالأسما وإبليس

عن آدم العلم بالأسما وإبليس

And the secret of that secret appeared, telling me

And the secret of that secret began to inform me

of Adam, knowledge of the names, and Iblis.

About Adam the knowledge of names and Iblis

فيا حقيقة كوني أنت شمس ضحى

فيا حقيقة كوني أنت شمس ضحى

عليك غيمة تنويعي وتجنيسي

عليك غيمة تنويعي وتجنيسي

So, O reality of my being, you are the sun of midmorning;

So O essence of existence you are the sun of early morning

over you lies the cloud of my sorting into kinds and genera.

Upon you a cloud of my variation and composition

أو كالسواد الذي في العين يظهر من

أو كالسواد الذي في العين يظهر من

قرص الأشعة في تحديق تحييس

قرص الأشعة في تحديق تحييس

Or like the blackness that appears in the eye from

Or like the blackness that appears in the eye from

the disk of rays, when staring in bewilderment.

The rays' disk in intent gazing

كالعنكبوت بنت نفس لها خيماً

كالعنكبوت بنت نفس لها خيماً

حتى بها وهنت من طول تعنيس

حتى بها وهنت من طول تعنيس

Like a spider, a soul built tents for itself,

Like the spider that built for itself a shelter

until it weakened in them from prolonged spinsterhood.

Until through it, it weakened from prolonged weakness

كيس تقدر من شتى الشئون له

كيس تقدر من شتى الشئون له

والسر أجمعه في ذلك الكيس

والسر أجمعه في ذلك الكيس

A bag was formed for it from diverse affairs,

A bag that can hold the various affairs for it

and the entire secret is in that bag.

And the whole secret is in that bag

طرقت دير الهوىدارت دوائره

طرقت دير الهوىدارت دوائره

على الرهابين فيه والقساقيس

على الرهابين فيه والقساقيس

I knocked at love's monastery; its fortunes turned

I knocked on the monastery of love, its circles

against the monks within it and the priests.

Frightened those inside it and the sacristans

نفوس أغيار عين في برانسها

نفوس أغيار عين في برانسها

مزخرفات كأذناب الطواويس

مزخرفات كأذناب الطواويس

Souls of beings other than the Essence, in their cowls,

Souls of strangers whose insights in their secondary principles

adorned like the tails of peacocks.

Are embellishments like the tails of peacocks

حتى نظرت بعين العين فانكشفت

حتى نظرت بعين العين فانكشفت

موتَى الشماميس منها في النواميس

موتَى الشماميس منها في النواميس

Until I looked with the eye of the Essence, and there were revealed

Until I looked with the eye of the eye so I was unveiled

the dead deacons among them, within the sacred laws.

The dead bodies of candles among them in the lamps

وأكبر الحق في واهي أباطله

وأكبر الحق في واهي أباطله

وقد تعالى على كل الوساويس

وقد تعالى على كل الوساويس

And I magnify the Truth amid its flimsy falsehoods,

And the Greatest Truth in the flimsy falsehoods

and it is exalted above all whisperings of doubt.

And He transcended over all the mediocrities

وكل ما كان عند العقل أدرسه

وكل ما كان عند العقل أدرسه

درسته وتلاشى أمر تدريسي

درسته وتلاشى أمر تدريسي

And all that I once studied with reason,

And all that the mind had perceived

I effaced it, and the business of my teaching vanished.

I perceived and the matter of my teaching disappeared

وأصبح الواحد المعروف مشتهراً

وأصبح الواحد المعروف مشتهراً

عندي ولا عند لي من فرط تفليسي

عندي ولا عند لي من فرط تفليسي

And the known One became renowned

And the Known One became famous in my view

in my presence—yet I have no 'presence,' so utter is my bankruptcy.

And I had no one left from the excess of my bankruptcy

ولم يكن غيره الثاني له ونفى

ولم يكن غيره الثاني له ونفى

تثليث ظني وتربيعي وتخميسي

تثليث ظني وتربيعي وتخميسي

Nor was any other a second to Him, and He negated

And there was no second to Him and the trinity of my assumption was denied

the tripling of my conjecture, my quadrupling and my quintupling.

And my quadruplicity and quintessence

بالله قف أيها الساري بنا وبه

بالله قف أيها الساري بنا وبه

يبدي مراتب إدلاج وتعريس

يبدي مراتب إدلاج وتعريس

By God, halt, O night-traveler journeying with us and Him,

By Allah stand O the one crossing to us and by Him

revealing stages of night travel and halting for rest.

The degrees of initiation and definition are manifested

واعطف على العيس لا تجذب أعنتها

واعطف على العيس لا تجذب أعنتها

إلا إليك وجد واعطف على العيس

إلا إليك وجد واعطف على العيس

And be gentle with the pale camels; do not pull their reins

And lean towards Jesus do not pull his supporters

except toward yourself; be generous, and be gentle with the pale camels.

Except to you, sincerely lean to Jesus

تبارك الله لي وجه الحبيب بدا

تبارك الله لي وجه الحبيب بدا

وقد تبسم لي من بعد تعبيس

وقد تبسم لي من بعد تعبيس

Blessed be God! The beloved's face appeared to me,

Blessed is Allah the face of the Beloved appeared

and it smiled at me after frowning.

And he smiled at me after frowning

عرشي أتى من سباغيٍّ لقدس هدى

عرشي أتى من سباغيٍّ لقدس هدى

ومع سليمانه إسلام بلقيس

ومع سليمانه إسلام بلقيس

My throne came from a 'Sabāghī' to the sanctity of guidance,

My throne came from resolution to the holiness of guidance

and with its Solomon came Bilqis's submission.

And with Solomon, Sheba's submission

وعاد ما كان مني بالغداة مضى

وعاد ما كان مني بالغداة مضى

وأذّن الظهر بي في وقت تغليس

وأذّن الظهر بي في وقت تغليس

And what had departed from me in the morning returned,

And what was gone in the early morning returned

and noon called to prayer through me in the hour of dawn's darkness.

And the noon called me at the time of unfairness

وللبداية قد عادت نهايتنا

وللبداية قد عادت نهايتنا

وأخلصت عندنا كل الجواسيس

وأخلصت عندنا كل الجواسيس

And our end has returned to the beginning,

And for the beginning our ending returned

and all the spies among us became sincere.

And all the spies became sincere to us

والكل أصبح نوراً بعد ظلمته

والكل أصبح نوراً بعد ظلمته

وقد تطهّر منه كل تنجيس

وقد تطهّر منه كل تنجيس

And everything became light after its darkness,

And all became light after its darkness

and every defilement was cleansed from it.

And it was purified of all filth

وقد رأى الكل في تغيير فطرتهم

وقد رأى الكل في تغيير فطرتهم

مذاهباً أدركوها بالمقاييس

مذاهباً أدركوها بالمقاييس

And everyone, in changing their innate nature, saw

And all saw in the change of their innate nature

doctrines they grasped through comparisons.

Doctrines they realized with criteria

وعين ما أنا مفطور عليه وهم

وعين ما أنا مفطور عليه وهم

مثلي هو الحق عندي دون تنفيس

مثلي هو الحق عندي دون تنفيس

And the very thing upon which I am innately formed—and they,

And the eye of what I was created upon and they

like me—is the Truth to me, without delay.

Are like me, it is the truth to me without sighing

فاكشف ولا تخترع ما أنت فيه تفز

فاكشف ولا تخترع ما أنت فيه تفز

بدين طه وداود وجرجيس

بدين طه وداود وجرجيس

So uncover, do not invent, the state you are in; you will triumph

So reveal and do not invent what you are deluded by

through the faith of Taha, David, and Jirjis.

The religion of Taha and David and George

وقل وما أنا ممن بالتكلف قد

وقل وما أنا ممن بالتكلف قد

أتى إليكم خلافا للمناحيس

أتى إليكم خلافا للمناحيس

And say: 'I am not among those who, with affectation, have

And say, I am not one of those who

come to you—unlike the ill-fated ones.'

Came to you with affectation contrary to the carpenters