قصدت جلال اللّه جل جلاله

وقصد الجليل الحق مجدي وعزتي

I sought God's majesty—exalted is His majesty.

And seeking the Majestic, the True, is my glory and my honor.

شهدت جلال اللّه حيث صفاتُه

فابهتني مستغرقاً لبصيرتي

I beheld God's majesty in His attributes,

So it astounded me, wholly absorbing my inner sight.

ولما تجلت لي نعوت جلاله

تصاعدت من نفسي إلى العدمية

And when the attributes of His majesty were revealed to me,

I ascended from my self into nothingness.

تجلت على نعتي نعوت جلاله

كما أنه منها نعوتي تجلت

The attributes of His majesty shone upon my own attribute,

Just as it was from them that my own attributes shone forth.

تعرضت الأفياء فانتسخت به

ولم يبق إلا نور قدس ووحدة

The shadows appeared, then were effaced by it,

And nothing remained but holy light and oneness.

جلال قديم لا يناسب رتبة

وليست تضاهيه جلالة رتبة

A beginningless majesty that corresponds to no rank,

And no rank's grandeur can rival it.

جلال تذل الكائنات لعزّه

وأعظم عز تحته محض ذلة

A majesty before whose might all beings are humbled,

And the greatest might beneath it is sheer abasement.

الهي جليل الشأن أين مدارجي

وذكري وفكري في الصفات الجليلة

My God, exalted in standing, where are my steps of ascent,

And my remembrance and reflection upon the sublime attributes?

نهاية ما آتى به حَمدُ حائرٍ

ولهجة مضطر واجلال دهشهِ

The utmost I offer is a bewildered one's praise,

And a desperate one's utterance, and reverence born of his astonishment.

الهي ألبسني جلالاً يليق بي

جلالاً يرقيني إلى كل حضرة

My God, clothe me in a majesty befitting me,

A majesty that raises me to every presence.

به أرتقي يا ذا الجلال وأنتهي

إلى موقف أنهى رجال المحبة

Through it I ascend, O Possessor of Majesty, and arrive

At a station that brought the men of love to their end.