1. بأسمائك الحسنى دعوتك موقنا

    بانجازك الوعد الذي قلت فافعلا

    By Your most beautiful names I have called upon You, certain

    that You will fulfill the promise You declared—so fulfill it.

  2. دعوت وما قدمت لي من ذريعة

    ولكن بحسن الظن جئت مؤملا

    I called, though I had prepared no means of approach for myself,

    but I came hopeful, thinking well of You.

  3. ومن ذا الذي ناجاك يا رب مخلصاً

    فما باء بالحظ الوفي معجلا

    And who has communed with You, O Lord, sincerely,

    without returning at once with a full share?

  4. وأي ملح بالأسامي رددته

    وقد عاش في اذكارها متبتلا

    And what persistent supplicant invoking the Names have You turned away,

    when he has lived wholly devoted to their remembrance?

  5. وحقك ليس الحجب إلا نفوسنا

    وأوصافها تستلزم المنع والقلى

    By Your truth, the veils are nothing but our own souls,

    and their qualities entail denial and aversion.

  6. فما بخل المسؤول جل ثناؤه

    ولكن أصل المنع منا تأصلا

    For the One implored is not miserly—exalted be His praise—

    but the source of denial is firmly rooted in ourselves.

  7. أزل طبع نفسي واكفني شهواتها

    وكن لي بأسرار الأسامي مكملا

    Remove my soul's ingrained disposition, and shield me from its desires;

    and perfect me through the mysteries of the Names.

  8. ونج وتب واغفر خطيئة ندم

    مقر وجد والطف به وتقبلا

    Deliver me, accept my repentance, and forgive the sin of one remorseful,

    confessing: be generous, be gentle with him, and accept him.

  9. ويسر لي اللهم نيل مآربي

    بأسرارهم واحلل بها عقدة البلا

    And make it easy for me, O God, to attain my aims,

    through their mysteries; through them untie the knot of affliction.

  10. الهي ملكني تصاريف فعلها

    وأسرار تأثيراتها أملك العلى

    My God, grant me mastery of their modes of action,

    and the mysteries of their effects, that I may attain the heights.

  11. ولا يك حظاً عاجلاً لي فضلها

    ولكن حظاً عاجلاً ومؤجلا

    And let their bounty not be merely an immediate share for me,

    but a share both immediate and deferred.

  12. وصل الهي كل حين على الذي

    له مدح التنزيل منك وبجلا

    And bless, my God, at every moment, the one

    praised and honored in the revelation from You:

  13. محمد الهادي الأمين وآله

    وأصحابه والتابعين ومن تلا

    Muhammad, the trustworthy guide, and his family,

    and his companions, the Followers, and those who came after.

  14. صلاة تحط الوزر عني بفضلها

    وتنجح سؤلي مكثراً ومقللا

    With a blessing whose grace lifts the burden of sin from me,

    and fulfills my plea, whether I do much or little.

  15. وترحم تضراعي وطول تبتلى

    بأسمائك الحسنى لديك وتقبلا

    And have mercy on my pleading and my long devotion

    through Your most beautiful names, before You—and accept it.

  16. ومذ مد قولي من قلامس فيضه

    خضماً من البحر المحيط تسلسلا

    And since my verse swelled from the oceans of His outpouring,

    a vast sea flowing from the encompassing ocean,

  17. وكان بمكنون العجائب سلما

    به يرتقي أهل السلوك إلى العلى

    and was, through hidden wonders, a ladder

    by which spiritual wayfarers ascend to the heights,

  18. تضمن تأريخاً لحسن كماله

    ثلاثة أسماء تحرر جملا

    it contained, as a chronogram of its fair completion,

    three names, reckoned by their letter-values:

  19. غني علي مع لطيف وعدّه

    مليك ووهاب فخذه مفصلا

    Ghaniyy, ʿAliyy, with Laṭīf; and its count is

    Malīk and Wahhāb—take it in detail.