الحمد لله بأسمائه

الحمد لله بأسمائه

الظاهر الباطن عن خلقهِ

الظاهر الباطن عن خلقهِ

Praise be to God by His names,

Praise be to God with His names

The Manifest, the Hidden from His creation,

The Manifest, the Hidden from His creation

في خلقه فكلهم عينه

في خلقه فكلهم عينه

لذاك أجراه على وفقه

لذاك أجراه على وفقه

Within His creation—for they are all His very essence.

In His creation, so all of them are His eye

For that reason He made it proceed in accord with Himself.

Therefore He regulated it according to His ordinance

نحيى به أعضاء إنسانها

نحيى به أعضاء إنسانها

وهو لنا كالمسك في حقه

وهو لنا كالمسك في حقه

Through Him we are given life, as limbs of its human being.

We live by it, the members of His human

And to us He is like musk in its casket.

And He is for us like musk in His right

تشبيهه الرؤية لا عينه

تشبيهه الرؤية لا عينه

كالشمسِ أو كالبدر في أفقه

كالشمسِ أو كالبدر في أفقه

The comparison concerns seeing Him, not His essence,

His similitude of sight, not His eye

Like the sun, or like the full moon on its horizon.

Like the sun or like the full moon on its horizon

من فهم المر الذي قلته

من فهم المر الذي قلته

صير عين الغرب في شرقه

صير عين الغرب في شرقه

Whoever understands the matter I have spoken of

Whoever understood the matter I have said

Has placed the very west within its east.

Will make the West's eye in its East