سبحان من وجب الوجود لذاته

للذات لا لوجود مخلوقاته

Glory be to Him whose existence is necessary by His own essence,

by the essence itself, not through the existence of His creatures.

وجب الوجود له بما هو أهله

من مقتضى أسمائه وصفاته

Existence is necessary for Him, as befits Him,

through what His names and attributes entail.

وجب الوجود لذي الجلال بشرط لا

ولو انجلى بوجود موجداته

Existence is necessary for the Lord of Majesty, under the condition of negation,

even though He is manifest through the existence of what He creates.

وجب الوجود لذي الجلال مقدساً

عن شائبات النقص في سبحاته

Existence is necessary for the Lord of Majesty, sanctified

beyond the taints of imperfection in His splendors.

وجب الوجود له بغير معلل

لوجوده أو موجب لثباته

Existence is necessary for Him, without a cause

for His existence, or anything necessitating His permanence.

وجب الوجود لذي ألالوهة مطلقاً

في قدسه عن كل تقييداته

Existence is necessary for Him who possesses divinity, absolutely,

in His holiness, beyond any qualification of His existence.

وجب الوجود له غنياً نفسه

من حيث وحدته ورتبة ذاته

Existence is necessary for Him, Himself self-sufficient,

by virtue of His oneness and the rank of His essence.

وجب الاله ولا تعين ممكن

إلا تعينه بمعلوماته

God exists necessarily; no contingent being is individuated

except through its individuation among the things He knows.

ما زاد حسق وجوبه متعين

بوجوبه من جنس مصنوعاته

No determinate being augments [unclear word] His necessity,

by its necessity, from among His handiworks.

لم تصدر الآثار حق وجوبه

إلا دلالتها لتأثيراته

Effects do not bring forth the reality of His necessity,

except by pointing to His acts of causation.

إيجابها حدث ولا تأثير في

ثبت الوجوب الحق من اثباته

Their necessitation is temporal; there is no influence upon

the established reality of true necessity from affirming it.

آثار امكان الوجوب لغيره

جل الوجوب الحق عن علاته

The effects of contingency have necessity through another;

true necessity is exalted above its causes.

أعطى الوجود لممكن مختاره

في حد علته ومعلولاته

Its chooser granted existence to a contingent being,

within the bounds of its cause and its effects.

حقت له أحدية في ذاته

وثبوته ووجوبه وصفاته

Absolute oneness truly belongs to Him in His essence,

and in His subsistence, His necessity, and His attributes.

بحت القداسة في مقام وجوده

عما يحد وجود مخترعاته

Pure holiness marks the station of His existence,

beyond what limits the existence of His creations.

فوجوده للذات ليس لمقتض

ووجودهن يعد من آياته

So His existence is by His essence, not by a necessitating cause,

while their existence is counted among His signs.

ووجوده صفة لعز كماله

ينهي إليها ما يليق بذاته

His existence is an attribute of the majesty of His perfection;

to it He refers whatever befits His essence.

ووجوده سلب لضد وجوده

والشيء معتبر بضدياته

His existence negates the contrary of His existence,

and a thing is understood through its opposites.

ووجوده سلب انتهاء وجوده

يقضي الوجوب محال نفي ثباته

His existence negates any ending of His existence;

necessity decrees the impossibility of denying His permanence.

ووجود مبدعه وترك وجوده

فعل وترك من تجلياته

The existence of what He creates, and withholding its existence,

are action and abstention among His self-disclosures.

وبفيض مرتبة الوجود تقيد ال

امكان في إيجاد ماهياته

By the outpouring of the rank of existence is constrained

contingency, in the bringing-forth of its essences.

فيض اختيار ليس علياً ولا

طبعاً يؤثر في طبيعياته

An outpouring of choice, not causally necessitated, nor

a nature acting upon its natural products.

ما حيلة الامكان حيث كمونه

وبروزه من بعض مقتضياته

What power has contingency, when its latency

and its emergence are among His requirements?

في فقره الامكان تحت وجوبه

متقيداً بقيود محتملاته

In its poverty, contingency lies beneath His necessity,

constrained by the bounds of its possibilities.

ووجود محتمل الوجود بخلقه

وبأمره أثر اختيارياته

The existence of what can exist, through His creation

and His command, is an effect of His free choices.

والفيض بالتعليل يوجب كثرة

القدماء في نفس القديم بذاته

Outpouring by causal necessity entails a multiplicity

of eternal beings within the One eternal in Himself.

والترك دون الاختيار لعاجز

في ذاته من فعل مقدوراته

Refraining without choice belongs to one powerless

in himself to bring about what is within his power.

وقضية الامكان شاهدة على

اتقان مختار لمصنوعاته

The case of contingency bears witness to

a freely choosing One's perfecting of His handiwork.

ظهر اختيار الحق في وجه التنا

قض والتضادد بين مخترعاته

The Real's free choice is manifest in the face of contradiction

and opposition among His creations.

وتغاير الابداع تحت شؤونه

في حصر كن طوعاً لتقديراته

And the diversity of creation under His workings,

within the compass of “Be!”, obedient to His decrees.

لا قابلية في وجود ممكن

لسوى اختيار الحق كينوناته

There is no receptivity in the existence of a contingent being

for anything but the Real's choosing of its modes of being.

ومعلل فرداً يعلل مفرداً

لا يقتضي تعليل معلولاته

A cause, acting singly, causes a single thing;

it does not entail the causation of its effects.

والنقض والابرام والتصريف وال

تدبير للمختار من آياته

Undoing, confirming, directing, and

governing belong to the freely choosing One, among His signs.

وتباين الاقدار حسب شؤونه

من عالم الجبروت في حضراته

The diversity of decrees, according to His workings,

from the world of irresistible might, in His presences,

للواجب المختار مظهر حكمة

عن قدرة وجبت لوحدة ذاته

is a manifestation of wisdom for the necessary, freely choosing One,

from a power necessary by virtue of His essence's oneness.

يا من تجلى بالوجوب وجوده

في نور حكمته وظل صفاته

O You whose existence is manifested in necessity,

in the light of Your wisdom and the shade of Your attributes.

يا من تجلى بالالوهة واجباً

من حيث مظهره على كلماته

O You who manifest Yourself in divinity, necessarily existent,

through Your manifestation upon Your words.

يا من تجلى بالوجوب مدبراً

جزئي مبدعه وكلياته

O You who manifest Yourself in necessity, governing

the particulars of Your creation and its universals.

يا من تجلى من سنا أخلاقه

وعظيم رحمته وتبريكاته

O You who manifest Yourself through the radiance of Your character,

and the greatness of Your mercy and Your blessings.

يا من تجلى في سياسة ملكه

واللطف بالمخلوق في حالاته

O You who manifest Yourself in the governance of Your kingdom,

and in kindness to the creature in its states.

يا من تجلى في مشاهد حبه

ببلائه في أهل تقريباته

O You who manifest Yourself in the scenes of Your love,

through Your trials among those You draw near.

يا من تجلى في نعيم عدائه

بوجوب حكمته بمقتضياته

O You who manifest Yourself in the ease of Your enemies,

through the necessity of Your wisdom, in accordance with Your requirements.

يا من تجلى في بدائع صنعه

بعجائب الاتقان في ذراته

O You who manifest Yourself in the marvels of Your handiwork,

through wondrous perfection in its particles.

يا من تجلى واحداً في ذاته

وصفاته في أي تعريفاته

O You who manifest Yourself as One in Your essence

and Your attributes, in every description of You.

يا من تجلى بالكمال وجوبه

في فعله ولذاته وصفاته

O You whose necessity is manifested in perfection,

in Your action, and for Your essence and attributes.

يا من تجلى بالجلال وجوبه

من حيث هيبته وعزة ذاته

O You whose necessity is manifested in majesty,

in Your awe and the might of Your essence.

يا من تجلى بالجمال وجوبه

من حيث رأفته بمربوباته

O You whose necessity is manifested in beauty,

in Your tenderness toward those under Your lordship.

يا من تجلى بانتفاء مثيله

في السلب عنه وفي اضافياته

O You who manifest Yourself through the absence of any equal,

in what is negated of You and in Your relational attributes.

يا من تجلى في مواجد أهله

بمسابح الأذواق في سبحاته

O You who manifest Yourself in the ecstasies of Your people,

through the swimming-places of spiritual tastes amid Your splendors.

يا من تجلى للنهى بفتوحه

وشوارق العرفان من فيضاته

O You who manifest Yourself to intellects through Your unveilings,

and the dawning lights of gnosis from Your outpourings.

يا من تجلى للسرائر باطناً

بمواهب الامداد من نفحاته

O You who manifest Yourself inwardly to the innermost hearts,

through gifts of sustaining aid from Your breaths.

يا من تجلى في قلوب شهوده

بشهود عزته وتمجيداته

O You who manifest Yourself in the hearts of those who witness You,

through witnessing Your might and the proclamations of Your glory.

يا من تجلى في مظاهر قدسه

عن دركه لذوي خصوصياته

O You who manifest Yourself in the manifestations of Your holiness,

beyond the grasp of those granted Your special favors.

يا من تجلى في قلوب العارفي

ن بما حباهم من لدنياته

O You who manifest Yourself in the hearts of the knowers,

through what You have bestowed on them of knowledge from Your presence.

يا من تجلى للعقول بنوره

من حيث أغرقها ببحر صفاته

O You who manifest Yourself to minds through Your light,

by immersing them in the sea of Your attributes.

يا من تجلى للفهوم فأدركت

أن ليس تدرك غير تسبيحاته

O You who manifest Yourself to understandings, so they realize

that they apprehend only praises of Your transcendence.

يا من تجلى بالمحامد مطلقاً

في جوده وشمول تكريماته

O You who manifest Yourself in praises without limit,

in Your generosity and the all-embracing scope of Your honors.

أوجدتني بشراً سوياً عاقلاً

ووهبت عقلي كل إدراكاته

You brought me into being as a human, well-formed and rational,

and gave my mind all its perceptions.

عبداً تقيده الضرورة عاجزاً

في أي طور من جميع جهاته

A servant constrained by necessity, powerless

in every state and from every aspect.

عبداً يصرفه اقتدار الهه

بسكونه فقر وفي حركاته

A servant directed by the power of his God,

poor in his stillness and in his movements.

أوجدت عبدك واقتضيت نصيبه

بحياته الدنيا وبعد مماته

You brought Your servant into being and ordained his portion

in his earthly life and after his death.

حسبي وجودك من وجود قائم

بوجود ذاتك أصله في ذاته

Your existence suffices me instead of an existence sustained,

at its root, by Your essence's existence, and which in itself

لا يقتضي ضراً ونفعاً دون ما

تقضي به في دفعه وثباته

brings neither harm nor benefit apart from what

You decree concerning its removal and its persistence.

أوجد بجاه وجودك الأنوار في

قلبي واسعدني بروح حياته

By the dignity of Your existence, bring lights into being in

my heart, and gladden me with the spirit of its life.

يا حي يا قيوم عبدك معدم

من حسن عيشته ومن حسناته

O Living One, O Self-Subsisting Sustainer, Your servant is destitute

of goodness in his life and of good deeds.