1. محمَّدٌ مِثالُها الفَرْداني

    بميمِها الأوَّلِ مَجْلى الآنِ

    Muhammad is its peerless exemplar;

    In its first mīm is the manifestation of the now.

  2. من مُنْتَقى إِرادَةٍ عُنْوانهُا

    يُفيضُ ما حُكِّمَ في الزَّمَانِ

    From the choicest will, its emblem

    Pours forth what was given authority in time,

  3. على مَطافِ كلِّ روحٍ نُزِّهتْ

    بطَوْرِها من خِدَعِ الشَّيطَانِ

    Upon the circuit of every spirit purified

    In its stage, from Satan's deceits.

  4. وفيه من مَجلى إِشارَةِ الوَحا

    مَناطُ ما جَلْجَلَ من بُرْهانِ

    And in him, from the manifestation of revelation's intimation,

    Is the nexus of what resounded as proof.

  5. وَفيهِ من مِثالِها ماهِيَّةٌ

    مَخْصوصَةٌ بذلكَ العُنوَانِ

    And in him, from its exemplar, is an essence

    Specific to that designation.

  6. وَفيهِ من مَدارِ مبدَإِ الوَرَى

    مَدارِكُ الإيمانِ والأَمَانِ

    And in him, from the orbit of creation's origin,

    Are perceptions of faith and security.

  7. وَفيهِ من معنَى مَقاماتِ النُّهى

    مِنْبَرُ علمٍ صَيِّنِ المَعاني

    And in him, from the meaning of reason's stations,

    Is a pulpit of knowledge that safeguards meanings.

  8. وَفيهِ مِضْمارُ شُؤونٍ سَبْرُها

    مدَّ شِراعَ الفضلِ والعِرْفَانِ

    And in him is a racecourse of affairs; fathoming them

    Spread the sail of bounty and gnosis.

  9. وَفيهِ محضَرُ الشُّهودِ بارِزٌ

    في مشهدِ الواحِدِ دونَ ثَاني

    And in him the presence of witnessing is manifest

    In the vision of the One, without a second.

  10. وَفيهِ ما لو نَطَقَتْ آياتُهُ

    بنوعِهِ لصَحَّتِ المَباني

    And in him is that: were its signs to speak

    Of its nature, the structures would stand sound.

  11. وَفيهِ ما كَرَّ بمُدَّةِ الخَفا

    على مُحيطِ مُشرِقِ الفُرْقَانِ

    And in him is what returned through the span of concealment

    Upon the encompassing sphere of the radiant Criterion;

  12. من حبلِ حاءِ الحكمِ عندَ طَيَّةٍ

    حافِلَةٍ بنورِها الرَّبَّاني

    From the cord of judgment's ḥāʾ, within a fold

    Brimming with its divine light;

  13. من حيطَةٍ بكلِّ بابِ حِطَّةٍ

    مُطَلْسَمٍ بحِكَمِ القُرآنِ

    From watchful care over every gate of remission,

    Talismanically sealed with the Qur'an's wise teachings;

  14. من حَيرةٍ بارِزَةٍ بحُسنِها

    من فوقِ عرشِ حَضرَةِ الإِحْسانِ

    From bewilderment, manifest in its beauty,

    From above the throne of the presence of excellence;

  15. من حملَةٍ كَونيَّةٍ مُلكِيَّةٍ

    مدَّتْ حِبالَ دولَةِ الكِيَانِ

    From a cosmic, royal campaign

    That stretched the cords of the dominion of being;

  16. من حَوْزَةٍ شرقيَّةٍ غربيَّةٍ

    فلا مماثِلٌ ولا مُدَانِ

    From a domain, eastern and western,

    So there is no equal and none who comes near;

  17. من حفلَةٍ فَتَّاكَةٍ فَعَّالَةٍ

    صَوَّالَةٍ بعسكَرٍ رُوحاني

    From a gathering, deadly and mighty in action,

    Charging fiercely with a spiritual army;

  18. من حَيْدَرِيِّ نيطَةٍ نِظامُها

    أتى بواضِحٍ من البَيَانِ

    From a Haydarian bond whose ordering

    Came with clear elucidation;

  19. إلى نَسيقِ ميمِ مَجراها الَّذي

    طافَ بمرساها على الأَكْوانِ

    To the ordered sequence of the mīm of its course, which

    Circled over the worlds with its anchorage;

  20. إلى مُحيَّاهُ المُفيضِ مَدداً

    لكلِّ قاصٍ في الوَرَى ودَانِ

    To his countenance, pouring forth succor

    For all among creation, far and near;

  21. إلى مَنيعِ مجدِهِ وجِدِّهِ

    وما طُوِي بنشْرِهِ المُصَانِ

    To his unassailable glory and earnestness,

    And what was folded in his guarded unfolding;

  22. إلى مكانَةٍ له باذِخَةٍ

    جَليلَةٍ شامِخَةِ الأَركَانِ

    To a towering station that is his,

    Majestic, with lofty pillars;

  23. إلى مَقامِ قابِ قوسِ قُربِهِ

    لدى التَّدَلِّي ولدَى التَّداني

    To the station of his nearness, a bow's span,

    At the descent and at the drawing near;

  24. إلى مَطافِ روحِهِ بحَضرَةٍ

    معْصومَةٍ عن عالَمِ الإِنْسَانِ

    To his spirit's circuit in a presence

    Protected from the human world;

  25. إلى مَراحِ ما وراءَ المُنْتَهى

    من مطْلَعِ الغُيوبِ للعِيَانِ

    To the pasture of what lies beyond the utmost limit,

    From the rising-place of the unseen into plain sight;

  26. بنَوعِ عِقْدِ حَبلِها بدَالِها

    لدورَةِ الآبادِ والأَلوَانِ

    By the manner of binding its cord with its dāl,

    For the cycle of eternities and colors;

  27. وعنهُ دارُها ودَرْبُ دارِها

    فَحاؤها والدَّالُ والميمَانِ

    And from him are its abode and the path to its abode:

    Thus its ḥāʾ, the dāl, and the two mīms:

  28. محمَّدٌ محمَّدٌ محمَّدٌ

    صلَّى عليهِ مُنْزِلُ المَثَانِي

    Muhammad, Muhammad, Muhammad.

    May the Revealer of the oft-repeated verses bless him.