Sol 6.1

  1. إله تعالى أن يرى ببصيرة

    ولا بصر والنص جاء بإبصارِ

    God is too exalted to be seen by inner sight,

    or by eyesight; yet the text speaks of seeing.

  2. وليس يُرى شيءٌ سواه وإنه

    على كلِّ حالٍ عينُ ذاتي ومقداري

    And nothing is seen but Him, and He

    in every state is the very essence of my self and my measure.

  3. لذاك يسمى ظاهراً باطناً لنا

    لأثبت أو أنفي فالأسماءُ أبصاري

    For that reason, He is called Manifest and Hidden to us,

    so that I may affirm or deny; the names are my eyes.

  4. فلا تجزَعَن فالأمرُ والشانُ واحد

    ولا تلتفت إلى يساري وإعساري

    So never be dismayed: the matter and the affair are one,

    and pay no heed to my wealth and my poverty.

  5. فإني عين الأمر إنْ كنتَ موسِراً

    ولستُ له عينا بعسري وإقتاري

    For I am the very essence of the matter, if you are wealthy,

    yet I am not its essence in my hardship and destitution.

  6. ألا إن عيني شاهد وشهادتي

    كذلك فيما صحَّ فيه من أخباري

    Behold, my eye is indeed a witness, and my testimony

    is likewise so, in what is sound among my reports concerning Him.

  7. لقد أثبتُ الأرحامَ بيني وبينه

    وإنَّ أولي الأرحامِ أوْلى بأقداري

    I have indeed affirmed kinship between me and Him,

    and those bound by kinship are more entitled to my destinies.

  8. أنا سجنُه منه إذا كنت رحمة

    وإنْ لم تكن رحمتي فقد بعدت داري

    I am His prison, from Him, when I am mercy;

    and if my mercy is absent, then my abode has indeed grown distant.

  9. ألا إنني جار لمن هو صورتي

    وقد جاء حقُّ الجارِ فرضٌ على الجار

    Behold, I am indeed a neighbor to the one who is my form,

    and it has been stated: the neighbor's right is a duty upon the neighbor.

  10. فقد أثبت المثل الذي قد نفاه لي

    بليس وقد حارتْ لذلك أفكاري

    Thus He has affirmed the likeness that He had negated for me

    with 'not'; and at that my thoughts were bewildered.

  11. إذا قلت مثل قال لا فأقول لا

    وإنْ قلت لا أبقى رهينا بأوزاري

    When I say 'a likeness,' He says 'No,' so I say 'No';

    and if I say 'No,' I remain a captive to my burdens of sin.

  12. فما هو لي بعض ولا أنا كله

    وما ثم كلّ غير ما برأَ الباري

    So He is no part of me, nor am I all of Him,

    and there is no whole but what the Creator brought into being.

  13. ولما بدا خلقي بعيني رأيتني

    بأسمائه الحسنى وسبعة أسوار

    And when my created form appeared to my eye, I saw myself

    through His most beautiful names and seven walls.

  14. وما أنا إلا جودُه ووجودُه

    وإنّ الذي يبدو لعينك آثاري

    And I am nothing but His bounty and His existence,

    and indeed, my traces are what appear to your eye.

  15. تعالى بأنْ يحظى بغير وجودِه

    وأين مع التحقيقِ عينٌ لأغياري

    He is exalted beyond partaking of anything but His own existence;

    and where, in true realization, is any being other than me?

  16. إذا قمتُ أثني والثناء كلامُه

    فما أنا فيما قد حمدتُ بمكثار

    When I rise to praise—and praise is His speech—

    then I am not profuse in the praise I have offered.

  17. إذا أبصرتْ عيني جمالَ وجودِه

    أكونُ به في الحالِ صاحبَ أنوارِ

    When my eye beholds the beauty of His existence,

    I become, through Him, in that state, a bearer of lights.

  18. وإنْ لم أكن أبصر سواي فإنني

    لعالم وقتي بي وصاحب أسرار

    And if I see nothing but myself, then I

    am indeed a knower of my time through myself, and a possessor of secrets.

  19. ولكن متى ان دام بي ما ذكرته

    وذلك في التحقيقِ يثبت أضراري

    But if ever what I have mentioned persists in me,

    then that, in true realization, establishes the harms I suffer.