1. الناسُ أولاد حوّاء سواي أنا

    فإنني ولد للوالدِ الذكرِ

    People are Eve's children, except for me;

    For I am a child of the male father.

  2. إن الأنوثة من نعتِ الرجال لذا

    تراهمُ يحملون العلم في الصورِ

    Femininity is an attribute of men; thus

    You see them bearing knowledge in forms.

  3. فيصبحون حبالى حاملين به

    حمل السحاب لما فيها من المطر

    So they become pregnant, bearing it,

    As clouds bear the rain within them.

  4. يحيى به كلّ ميتٍ لا حِراكَ به

    فيشكر الحيّ شكرَ الزَّهر للزهر

    Through it, every motionless dead thing comes to life.

    So the living give thanks as blossoms thank the stars.

  5. فالزهر أسماؤه الحسنى بجملتها

    والزهرُ ما أعطتِ السماء من أثر

    For the stars are all His most beautiful Names,

    And blossoms are the effects bestowed by heaven.

  6. يا رحمةَ الله قد حزتِ الوجودَ فما

    في الكونِ مقلة عينٍ تخلو من نظر

    O mercy of God, you have encompassed existence; no

    Eye in the cosmos is without sight.

  7. به يرون وجودَ الكونِ فيه كما

    يرون فيه وجودَ الحقِّ في البشر

    Through it they see the cosmos's existence within it, just as

    They see within it the Real's existence in humankind.

  8. ما بين ضمٍّ وفتحٍ قد يدتْ عبر

    لكلِّ قلبٍ سليم فيه معتبر

    Between a u-vowel and an a-vowel, lessons have appeared,

    For every sound heart, there is in it something to ponder.

  9. تربى على قوّةِ الأرواح قوّته

    فليس يحرقه الإدراك بالبصر

    Its strength surpasses the strength of spirits,

    So perception through sight does not burn it.

  10. لأنه سبحات الوجه فاعتبروا

    في النور والظلمةِ العمياءِ والغير

    For it is the radiance of the Face; so reflect

    On light, blind darkness, and otherness.

  11. هما الحجابُ لها ولم يقم بهما

    إحراقها لا و لا ما فيه من ضرر

    The two are its veil; through them there has been no

    Burning by that radiance—no, nor any harm it holds.

  12. والحجب ليس سوانا وهو خالقنا

    ونحن مجلى له بالسمع والبصرِ

    And the veils are none but ourselves, while He is our Creator.

    And we are His locus of manifestation through hearing and sight.

  13. كذا رأيناه ذوقا في مشاربنا

    كما رويناه فيما صح من خبر

    Thus we have seen Him by tasting at our drinking places,

    As we have reported of Him in accounts proved sound.

  14. هو القوي حين تعطي جوارحنا

    من النتائج فانظر فيه وادّكر

    He is the Strong when our limbs yield

    Results; so consider this and remember.

  15. لولاه ما نظرتْ عينٌ ولا سمعتْ

    أذن لما قد تلاه الحق في السور

    Were it not for Him, no eye would see, nor would

    An ear hear what the Real has recited in the surahs.

  16. الله يخلقنا والله يخلقنا

    على الدوام كما قد جاء في الزبر

    God creates us, and God wears us out,

    Unceasingly, as has been stated in the scriptures.

  17. وما له خبرٌ فينا يخبرنا

    سوى الذي نحن فيه اليوم من سير

    And He has no account of us to tell us

    Except the journeying we are in today,

  18. وما تكوَّن عنه من تقابلنا

    في جنةِ الخلد والمأوى على سرر

    And what has arisen from it: our facing one another

    In the Garden of Eternity and Refuge, upon couches,

  19. ومن يكون على ضدِّ النعيم بما

    يلقاه من ألم الضرّاءِ في سقر

    And whoever is in the opposite of bliss through what

    He encounters of affliction's pain in Saqar.

  20. ليس التعجب من هذا وما عجبي

    إلا بأني مع الأنفاس في سفر

    The wonder is not in this; my wonder is

    Only that, with each breath, I am on a journey,

  21. دنيا وآخرة فانظر ترى عجباً

    في حالنا واعتبره صنعَ مقتدر

    In this world and the next; look, and you will see a wonder

    In our state, and consider it the handiwork of the All-Powerful.

  22. والجوهر الأصل باقٍ لا زوال له

    هو المحل لما يبديه من صور

    And the primal substance endures, never passing away;

    It is the locus of the forms He manifests.

  23. الله جلى لنا ما قد جلاه لنا

    على صفاءٍ بلا شَوبٍ ولا كَدَرِ

    God has made clear to us what He has unveiled to us,

    In purity, without admixture or cloudiness.

  24. لذا أرى زمراً تأتي على زُمَرٍ

    كما أتتْ في كتاب الله في الزمر

    Thus I see throngs arriving after throngs,

    As they appeared in God's Book, in al-Zumar, 'The Throngs.'

  25. إنَّ المياه على مقدار أعينها

    فمنه منهمرٌ وغير منهمِر

    The waters are in proportion to their springs;

    So some of it pours forth, and some does not.

  26. إنَّ السحابَ بخارُ الأرض أنشأه

    ماء يحلله للنجمِ والشجرِ

    The cloud is the earth's vapor, brought forth by

    Water, which dissolves it for herbage and trees,

  27. شيئاً فشيأ ويبقى بعضها لندى

    أو تستحيل هواء في ذرى الأكر

    Little by little; some of it remains as dew,

    Or changes into air at the summits of the spheres.

  28. لذا رأيت خروج الودق من خلل

    فيه ليبرز ما في الروض من ثمر

    Thus I saw rain issuing through gaps

    Within it, to bring forth the fruit in the garden.