عانى وما حابى العدو فاعذرا

ورأى رضا الباري أهم فآثرا

He suffered and showed the enemy no favor, so excuse him.

He deemed the Creator's pleasure more important and preferred it.

وأبى مودة من يحادد ربه

خوفا على الإِيمان أن يتأثرا

He refused friendship with whoever opposes his Lord,

fearing that faith might be compromised.

عرف الإله فكان أعظم عنده

من أن يحابي الغير فيه واكبرا

He knew God and held Him too great

and too exalted to favor another in matters concerning Him.

من كان يؤمن بالإله فحقه

أن ليس يرضى فيه قولا منكرا

Whoever believes in God has a duty:

not to accept any reprehensible statement about Him.

وأقل ما يجزيكم في مثله

إن لم يطعكم أن يهان ويزدري

And the least you need do regarding someone like him,

if he does not obey you, is that he be humiliated and scorned.

وتجنبوه فلا يؤم بمسلم

صلى ولا يصغى إليه إذا قرا

Shun him: let him lead no Muslim

in prayer, nor let anyone listen to him when he recites,

حتى يتوب ويرعوى عن دين من

قال الألوهة باختبار تفترى

until he repents and turns away from the creed of one who

said, 'Divinity is fabricated through testing,'

ويرى الفصوص بعين منكر كفرها

ويرى الذي يثني عليها أكفرا

and regards the Fuṣūṣ as one condemning its unbelief,

and deems whoever praises it still more unbelieving.

فإذا أتى هذا وقال بقولكم

ورضى بدين المسلمين وأظهرا

Then, if he does this and adopts your position,

and accepts the Muslims' religion and openly professes it,

فارضوا بذلك منه واستوصوا به

خيرا وقولوا أنه قد أعذرا

accept that from him and treat him

kindly, and say that he has given grounds for pardon.