1. شمس نور الذات لاحت

    بضيا الأسماء فينا

    The sun of the Essence's light shone forth

    With the radiance of the Names within us.

  2. وصفات الحسن راحت

    بسناها تصطفينا

    And beauty's attributes went forth,

    Choosing us by their radiance.

  3. وسرى السرّ المحقّق

    بصفا الكأس المروَّق

    And the realized secret flowed

    Through the purity of the clarified cup.

  4. ينجلي منّا وفينا

    يجتليه مقتفينا

    It shines forth from us and within us;

    The one who follows us beholds it.

  5. هكذا الشأن تنوّع

    بالتجلّي في المرائي

    Thus the affair took varied forms

    Through self-revelation in the mirrors.

  6. وبدا الوجه المبرقع

    وهو المرئي ورائي

    And the veiled face appeared,

    And it is both the seen and the seer.

  7. فأرانا مظهر الحقّ

    في مرائي الجمع والفرق

    Thus it showed us the manifestation of the Truth

    In the mirrors of union and separation.

  8. لم نر في البين بينا

    مذ رأينا العين عينا

    We saw no separation in the space between,

    Since we beheld the Essence as the Essence itself.

  9. سرّ توحيد الوجودِ

    مطلقٌ لا من قيودِ

    The secret of the oneness of Being

    Is absolute—not by release from bonds.

  10. عين طوري في شهودي

    دكّ طوري حيث نودي

    The very essence of my Mount, in my witnessing,

    Leveled my Mount where the call was sounded.

  11. وهو في التقييد مطلق

    قيَّد الحالَ وأطلق

    And within limitation it is absolute;

    It bound the state and set it free—

  12. من سناً لاح بسينا

    ما زجاً بالراء سينا

    The one who shone as radiance at Sinai,

    Mingling a sīn with rāʾ.

  13. يا بروحي يا بروحي

    أفتدي يوحَ فُتوحي

    O, with my soul, O, with my soul,

    I would ransom Yūḥ, sun of my illuminations,

  14. من جلا كأسي صبوحي

    في غبوقٍ وصبوح

    Who made my cup of morning wine gleam

    At evening drinking and morning drinking.

  15. نصفَ الحان وأشرق

    وبورد الكأس أشرق

    He served the tavern and shone,

    And shone with the rose of the cup.

  16. وسقى ماء معيناً

    فشربنا وارتوينا

    And gave flowing water to drink,

    So we drank and quenched our thirst.

  17. وطلا كأس المدام

    بشذا مسك الختام

    And anointed the cup of wine

    With the fragrance of the sealing musk.

  18. فاح طيباً في المشام

    بصلاةٍ مع سلام

    It wafted sweetly into the nostrils,

    With a blessing and peace

  19. لنبيٍّ جاء بالحقّ

    نوره بالحقّ الحقّ

    For a prophet who came with the Truth—

    His light, in truth, is the Truth—

  20. آل بيتٍ طاهرينا

    وصحاب أكرمينا

    The pure family of his House,

    And the most noble Companions.