فيض بجمع الجمع صار حديثه

في الكتاني بآدم من آدم

An outpouring: in the union of union its discourse came to be

in al-Kattani, through Adam, from Adam.

وغدا يفيض على الأوائل برزح ال

إطلاق من قاموس بحر الخيضم

And upon the ancients began to pour the isthmus [reading uncertain] of the

Absolute, from the depths of the vast sea.

فغدا هيولي الكون ملتحفا بسر

ر مهامه الفيض المحيط الأقوم

So the primordial matter of the cosmos became cloaked in the secret

of the wastes of the all-encompassing, most upright outpouring.

ألوية طبعت بختم خلافة

بيد النبي محمد بالأعجم

Banners were stamped with a seal of vicegerency

by the hand of the Prophet Muhammad, in the non-Arabic tongue.

نصبت لنا السرايا في ميقاتها

وغدت ممنطقة بأفعى أرقم

The detachments were stationed for us at their appointed time,

and became girdled with a speckled viper.

وشيت بجمع شؤونها تمت بنا

لبن التمام على طراز مبهم

Embroidered with the union of their affairs, completed through us were

the bricks of completion, in an enigmatic design.

وفت لناص ونون بعدما

نصبت منصات الكتاب الأعظم

They sufficed for 'Nāṣ' and Nūn, after

the platforms of the Greatest Book had been erected.

قاف وهاء ثم كاف سيننا

لا شيء في شيء منيع طلسم

Qāf and Hāʾ, then the Kāf of our Sīn—

nothing within something—an impregnable talisman.

تاء وظاذ ثم باء عينها

دول تمد علي كطود طمطم

Tāʾ and 'Ẓādh', then the Bāʾ of its ʿAyn—

dominions extend over me like a 'Ṭamṭam' mountain.

شوغال كلكم كلكمت في واوها

عند الهواء مرضعا بتكلكم

'Shūghāl'—all of you—'kalkamat' within its Wāw,

beside the air, being suckled through 'takalkum'.

لم تلثم كافاتها لما انثنت

في الطاء من هاء الهواء المظلم

Its Kāfs were not kissed when they bent

into Ṭāʾ, from the Hāʾ of the dark air.

علي روى مجلى الحروف تبسملا

عند الضراب محملا بالأدهم

Ali recounted the manifestation of the letters, uttering 'In the name of God',

at the clash of blows, borne on the black steed.