تباركتَ أنت الله جلَّ جلالُه

تباركتَ أنت الله جلَّ جلالُه

وعزَّ فلم يظفر به علمُ عالم

وعزَّ فلم يظفر به علمُ عالم

Blessed are You, God—exalted is His majesty.

You are blessed, O God, majestic is His majesty

And mighty is He: no knower's knowledge has attained Him.

And His might, no scholar's knowledge attained it

تعالى فلم تدركه أفكارُ خلقه

تعالى فلم تدركه أفكارُ خلقه

وردَّ بما أوحى به كلُّ حاكم

وردَّ بما أوحى به كلُّ حاكم

He is exalted: His creatures' thoughts have not grasped Him.

Exalted, His creatures' thoughts did not reach Him

And every judge was refuted by what He revealed.

And He refuted what every ruler claimed

ولكن مع الردِّ الذي وردتْ به

ولكن مع الردِّ الذي وردتْ به

نصوصُ الهدى أثني بأرحمِ راحم

نصوصُ الهدى أثني بأرحمِ راحم

Yet, alongside the refutation brought by

But with the refutation He sent

the texts of guidance, He bestowed the praise “most merciful of the merciful”

The texts of guidance, I praise with the most merciful of the merciful

على نفسه وحياً ليعلم سابقٌ

على نفسه وحياً ليعلم سابقٌ

ومقتصدٌ من ذاك حكمةُ ظالمِ

ومقتصدٌ من ذاك حكمةُ ظالمِ

upon Himself through revelation, so that one foremost

Upon Himself and inspiration so the foremost

and one of the middle course might thereby know a wrongdoer's wisdom.

And the moderate may know the wisdom of the unjust

فلا سابقٌ يزهو لتاخيرِ ذكره

فلا سابقٌ يزهو لتاخيرِ ذكره

لإلحاقه فيه باهل المظالم

لإلحاقه فيه باهل المظالم

So none foremost boasts, for his mention comes later,

So no foremost may gloat at the delay of his mention

since he is included there among the wrongdoers.

To join him in it with the people of injustices

فجاء بتنزيه بشورى وغيرها

فجاء بتنزيه بشورى وغيرها

وجاء بتشبيهِ لسانِ التراجم

وجاء بتشبيهِ لسانِ التراجم

Thus He brought transcendence in Shūrā and elsewhere,

So He came with glorification, consultation and more

and He brought likeness on the tongue of interpretations.

And He came with likening the tongues of translators

وكلٌّ له وجهٌ صحيحٌ ومقصدٌ

وكلٌّ له وجهٌ صحيحٌ ومقصدٌ

فعم بما أوحى جميعَ المعالم

فعم بما أوحى جميعَ المعالم

Each has a sound aspect and a purpose,

And each has a correct purpose and intention

so through what He revealed He encompassed all landmarks.

So He covered with what He inspired all the landmarks

وقال أنا عند الظنونِ وحكمها

وقال أنا عند الظنونِ وحكمها

وذلك عينُ العلم بي في التراجم

وذلك عينُ العلم بي في التراجم

And He said: I am according to suppositions and their judgment.

And He said I am with assumptions and their judgment

And that is the very essence of knowing Me in the interpretations.

That is the essence of knowledge of Me in translations

وفيها ترى القيامةِ عندما

وفيها ترى القيامةِ عندما

يقرِّبه بعد الجحود الملازم

يقرِّبه بعد الجحود الملازم

And in them you see the Resurrection, when

And in them you see the Day of Resurrection when

he draws him near after the denial that clings

He brings it near after persistent denial

لما عقدوا فينا ببرهان عقلهم

لما عقدوا فينا ببرهان عقلهم

وإن فضلتهم في العلومِ بهائمي

وإن فضلتهم في العلومِ بهائمي

to what they held concerning Us through their reason's proof,

Because they concluded about Us with the proof of their reason

though My beasts surpassed them in knowledge,

Even if I favored them over livestock in sciences

كما جاء عنا في صريح كلامنا

كما جاء عنا في صريح كلامنا

على ألسن الأرسالِ من كلِّ حاكم

على ألسن الأرسالِ من كلِّ حاكم

as came from Us in Our plain speech,

As came about Us in the explicit of Our speech

upon the tongues of the messengers, from every judge.

On the tongues of the messengers from every ruler