إن لله عباداً كلما

إن لله عباداً كلما

ذكروا الله فنوا في ذكرهِ

ذكروا الله فنوا في ذكرهِ

Indeed, God has servants who, whenever

they remember God, are annihilated in remembrance of Him.

وإلى هذا فهم ما أمنوا

وإلى هذا فهم ما أمنوا

حال ذكراهم به من مكره

حال ذكراهم به من مكره

Yet even so, they have not felt secure,

during their remembrance through Him, from His stratagem.

يبتغون الفضلَ منه عندما

يبتغون الفضلَ منه عندما

شكروا المنعمَ حقَّ شُكره

شكروا المنعمَ حقَّ شُكره

They seek bounty from Him when

they thank the Benefactor as He deserves to be thanked.

زهد العارف منهم في الذي

زهد العارف منهم في الذي

أثبتَ العقلُ له من فكرِه

أثبتَ العقلُ له من فكرِه

The gnostic among them has renounced what

reason affirmed for him through its reflection

من إله قرَّر الكشفَ له

من إله قرَّر الكشفَ له

إنه المعبودُ حالُ نكره

إنه المعبودُ حالُ نكره

as a god; unveiling confirmed for him

that He is the One worshipped in his state of unknowing.

يظهر الحقُّ له في صحوه

يظهر الحقُّ له في صحوه

عين ما أثبته في سكره

عين ما أثبته في سكره

The Real appears to him in his sobriety

as precisely what he affirmed in his intoxication.