إني العَماءُ ولا عَماءَ لذاتي

إني العَماءُ ولا عَماءَ لذاتي

وأنا الذي أتى ولست بآتي

وأنا الذي أتى ولست بآتي

I am the Cloud, yet there is no obscurity in my essence.

I am the blindness, though my essence sees,

And I am the one who came, yet I am not coming.

I am the one who came, though I'll never be.

إن كان من نبغيه عين وجودِنا

إن كان من نبغيه عين وجودِنا

فلمن أنا أو من يكون الآتي

فلمن أنا أو من يكون الآتي

If the one we seek is our very existence,

If our existence was meant for glory,

then to whom do I belong, or who is the one who comes?

Then for whom am I, or who will yet to be?

ما في الوجودِ سوى الوجودِ وإن

ما في الوجودِ سوى الوجودِ وإن

عينٌ ترى في النفي والإثباتِ

عينٌ ترى في النفي والإثباتِ

There is nothing in existence but existence, though

In existence, there is only existence, though

an essence is seen in negation and affirmation.

An eye may see in negation or proof.

ما تبصر الأشياء إلا عينها

ما تبصر الأشياء إلا عينها

فبها تراها وهي عينُ الذاتِ

فبها تراها وهي عينُ الذاتِ

Only their own eye beholds things;

Eyes only see things through their essence,

through it you see them, and it is the Essence itself.

So through the eye's essence, things have truth.

عينُ الجهولِ هو العليم وإنَّ ذا

عينُ الجهولِ هو العليم وإنَّ ذا

علمٌ قريبٌعند كلِّ موات

علمٌ قريبٌعند كلِّ موات

The utterly ignorant one's very essence is the All-Knowing, and this

The ignorant's eye is the all-knowing one,

is knowledge close at hand to every lifeless thing.

And though dying, knowledge is always near.

عين التولُّدِ النكاح محقَّقٌ

عين التولُّدِ النكاح محقَّقٌ

فالأمر بين أبوَّةٍ وبَناتِ

فالأمر بين أبوَّةٍ وبَناتِ

The very essence of generation is sexual union, assuredly;

The eye of genesis is intercourse fulfilled,

thus the matter lies between fatherhood and daughters.

So fatherhood and daughterhood are clear.

والأمر كالأعدادِ ينشء عينها

والأمر كالأعدادِ ينشء عينها

الواحد المعقولُ في الآيات

الواحد المعقولُ في الآيات

And the matter is like numbers: their very being is brought forth by

Like numbers, things arise through their eye,

the One apprehended by reason in the signs.

The One of reason in holy verses.

تعطيه ألقاباً ويعطيها به

تعطيه ألقاباً ويعطيها به

أكوانها بشهادة الاثبات

أكوانها بشهادة الاثبات

They give him titles, and through himself he gives them

It gives titles and gives through them

their forms of being, as affirmation bears witness.

Its universes, with proof's witness.

هو واحد ما لم يحدّ بسيره

هو واحد ما لم يحدّ بسيره

فإذا يسافر فهو في الأموات

فإذا يسافر فهو في الأموات

He is one so long as he is not delimited by his passage;

It is one, unbound, in its travels,

when he travels, then, he is among the dead.

Yet when traveling, it dies in settings.

لولا التنقُّل لم نكن ندري به

لولا التنقُّل لم نكن ندري به

ألقاب أعداد وعين ثبات

ألقاب أعداد وعين ثبات

Were it not for movement, we would not know through it

Without movement, we'd never know it

the names of numbers and the very essence of constancy.

As numbered titles and a steady being.

هو عينها لا غيرها فتكثّرت

هو عينها لا غيرها فتكثّرت

بوجودهِ فيها وذكر سمات

بوجودهِ فيها وذكر سمات

He is their very essence, not other than them; so they became many

It is their eye, nothing but it, so they

through his existence in them and the mention of attributes.

Multiplied through its existence in them.

البنتُ يغشاها ابوها وهي قد

البنتُ يغشاها ابوها وهي قد

ولدته ذا من أعجبِ الآياتِ

ولدته ذا من أعجبِ الآياتِ

The daughter's father lies with her, though she has already

The daughter's entered by her father, yet she

borne him: this is among the most wondrous signs.

Bore him, a marvelous sign to men.

سند الوجودِ معنعنٌ ما فيه من

سند الوجودِ معنعنٌ ما فيه من

خرمٍ ولا قطع ولا آفاتِ

خرمٍ ولا قطع ولا آفاتِ

Existence's chain of transmission runs 'from' one to another, with no

Existence's support is unpierced, with no

gap, nor break, nor flaw.

Holes, cuts, or defects in its frame.