The Fourteen Prayers of Aḥmad ibn Idrīs

بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.

اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلى طامَّةِ الحَقائِقِ الكُبْرَى

O God, bless the greatest overwhelming of realities,

سِرِّ الخَلْوَةِ الالِهيَّةِ لَيْلَةَ الاسْرا

the secret of the divine seclusion on the night of the Night Journey,

تاجِ المَلَكَةِ الالِهيَّةِ يَنْبُوعِ الحَقائِقِ الوُجُودِيَّةِ

the crown of the divine dominion, the wellspring of the realities of existence,

بَصَرِ الوُجُودِ وسِرِّ بصِيرَةِ الشُّهُودِ

the sight of existence and the secret of the insight of witnessing,

حَقِّ الحَقِيقَةِ العَيْنِيَّةِ وهُوِيَّةِ المَشاهِدِ الغَيْبِيَّةِ

the truth of the essential reality and the identity of the unseen places of witness,

تَفْصِيلِ الاِجْمالِ الكُلِّيِّ الآيَةِ الكُبْرَى فِي التَّجَلِّي والتَّدَلِّي

the unfolding of the universal summation, the greatest sign in self-disclosure and in drawing near,

نفس الأنْفاسِ الرُّوحِيَّةِ كليّةِ الأجْسامِ الصُّورِيَّةِ

the breath of the spiritual breaths, the totality of the bodies of form,

عَرْشِ العُرُوشِ الذّاتِيَّةِ صُورَةِ الكَمالاتِ الرَّحْمانِيَّةِ

the throne of the essential thrones, the form of the perfections of the All-Merciful,

لَوْحِ مَحْفُوظِ عِلْمِكَ المَخْزُونِ وسِرِّ كِتابِكَ المَكْنُونِ

the Tablet of the Preserved of Your stored-up knowledge, and the secret of Your hidden Book,

الَّذِي لا يَمَسُّهُ إلّا المُطَهَّرُونَ

which none touch but the purified,

يا فاتِحَةَ المَوْجُوداتِ يا مَجْمَعَ بَحْرَيِ الحَقائِقِ الأزَلِيّاتِ والأبَدِيّاتِ

O opening of all that exists, O meeting-place of the two seas of the realities without beginning and without end,

يا عَيْنَ جَمالِ الاخْتِراعاتِ والانْفِعالاتِ

O source of the beauty of all things originated and all things brought about,

يا نُقْطَةَ مَرْكَزِ جَمِيعِ التَّجَلِّياتِ

O point at the centre of every self-disclosure,

يا عَيْنَ حَياةِ الحُسْنِ الَّذِي [?]ارَتْ مِنْهُ رَشاشاتٌ

O spring of the life of beauty, from which droplets flew,

فاقْتَسَمَتْها بِحُكْمِ المَشِيئَةِ الالِهيَّةِ جَمِيعُ المُبْدَعاتِ

and all created things shared them out by the rule of the divine will,

يا مَعْنَى كِتابِ الحُسْنِ المُطْلَقِ الَّذِي اعْتَكَفَتْ فى حَضْرَتِهِ جَمِيعُ المَحاسِنِ

O meaning of the book of absolute beauty, in whose presence all beauties have kept retreat

لِتَقْرَأَ حُرُوفَ حُسْنِهِ المُقَيَّداتِ

to read the bounded letters of his beauty,

يا مَنْ أرْخَتْ حَقائِقُ الكَمالِ كُلُّها بُرْقُعَ الحِجابِ دُونَ الخَلْقِ

O you over whom all the realities of perfection let down the face-veil of concealment from creation,

وأجْمَعَتْ أنْ لا تَنْظُرَ لِغَيْرِهِ إلّا بِهِ مِنْ جَمِيعِ المُكَوَّناتِ

and agreed to look at nothing else among all created things except through him,

يا مَصَبَّ يَنابِيعِ ثَجّاجِ الأنْوارِ السُّبُحاتِيّاتِ الشَّعْشَعانِيّاتِ

O outflow of the springs of the pouring lights, the lights of glory, the radiant ones,

يا مَنْ تَعَشَّقَتْ بِكَمالِهِ جَمِيعُ المَحاسِنِ الالَهِيَّةِ

O you whose perfection all the divine beauties have fallen in love with,

يا ياقُوتَةَ الأزَلِ يا مَقْناطِيسَ الكَمالاتِ

O ruby of beginninglessness, O magnet of perfections,

قَدْ اَيِسَتِ العُقُولُ والفُهُومُ والألْسُنُ وجَمِيعُ الادْراكاتِ

minds, understandings, tongues and every faculty of perception have despaired

أنْ تَقْرَأَ رُقُومَ مَسْطُورِ كُنْهِيّاتِكَ المُحَمَّدِيّاتِ

of reading the lines written of your Muhammadan inmost natures,

أوْ تَصِلَ إلى حَقِيقَةِ مَكْنُوناتِ عُلُومِكَ اللَّدُنِّيّاتِ

or reaching the reality of the hidden things of your knowledge from the divine presence.

وكَيْفَ لا يا رَسُولَ اللهِ

And how could it be otherwise, O Messenger of God,

ومِنْ لَوْحِ مَحْفُوظِ كُنْهِكَ قَرَأَ المُقَرَّبُونَ كُلُّهُمْ حَقِيقَةَ التَّجَلِّياتِ

when it is from the preserved tablet of your inmost essence that all those brought near read the reality of the self-disclosures?

صَلَّى اللهُ وسَلَّمَ عَلَيْكَ يا زَيْنَ البَرايا

God bless you and give you peace, O adornment of all creatures,

يا مَنْ لَوْلا هُوَ لَمْ تَظْهَرْ لِلْعالَمِ عَيْنٌ مِنَ الخَفِيّاتِ

O you but for whom no single thing among the hidden would have appeared to the world.

بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.

اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلى مَظْهَرِ العَظَمَةِ الذّاتِيَّةِ

O God, bless the place where the majesty of the Essence appears,

جَمْعِيَّةِ عُيُونِ الحَقائِقِ الرَّحَمُوتِيَّةِ

the gathering of the springs of the realities of all-embracing mercy,

سِرِّ مَلَكُوتِ الأسْماءِ المُعَبَّرِ عَنْهُ بالعَماءِ قَبْلَ خَلْقِ أرْضٍ وسَماءٍ

the secret of the kingdom of the Names, spoken of as the Cloud before the creation of earth and heaven,

ساذَجِ الذّاتِ الاحاطِيَّةِ الوُجُودِ

the simple plainness of the Essence whose being encompasses all,

نُقْطَةِ دائِرَةِ الكَمالِ الالَهِيِّ فى الغَيْبِ والشُّهُودِ

the point of the circle of divine perfection, in the unseen and in the witnessed,

نَفْخِ رُوحِ النَّفَسِ الرَّحْمانِيِّ فِي كُلِّيّاتِ الوُجُودِ العِيانِيِّ

the breathing of the spirit of the Breath of the All-Merciful into the universals of visible existence,

غَيْبِ هُوَ فى هُوَ هُوَ مِنْ هُوَ هُوَ

the unseen of He within He, He from He, He.

فَصَلِّ اللَّهُمَّ عَلَيْهِ بِهُوَ هُوَ فِي هُوَ هُوَ مِنْ هُوَ هُوَ

So bless him, O God, by He, He within He, He from He, He,

يا مَنْ هُوَ هُوَ وعَلى آلِهِ وصَحْبِهِ وسَلِّمْ

O He who is He, and bless his family and companions, and give peace.

بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.

اللَّهُمَّ اِنِّي سْأَلُكَ بِجَلالِ وَجْهِكَ وعَظَمَةِ ذاتِكَ

O God, I ask You by the majesty of Your Face and the greatness of Your Essence,

وكَمالِ عِلْمِكَ وجَمالِ أسْمائِكَ وصِفاتِكَ

the perfection of Your knowledge and the beauty of Your Names and attributes,

أنْ تُصَلِّى عَلَى النُّورِ الذّاتِيِّ والمَنْظَرِ الصِّفاتِيِّ

to bless the light of the Essence and the outlook of the attributes,

مَجْلَى الحَقائِقِ القُرْآنِيَّةِ صُورَةِ مادَّةِ التَّجَلِّياتِ الفُرْقانِيَّةِ

the place where the realities of the Qur'an are unveiled, the form of the matter of the self-disclosures that distinguish,

الرُّوحِ القُدُّوسِيِّ والسِّرِّ السُّبُّوحِيِّ

the most holy spirit and the most glorified secret,

بَرْزَخِ العَظَمَةِ الذّاتِيَّةِ الحاجِزِ بَيْنَ خَلْقِكَ وسُبُحاتِ وَجْهِكَ

the isthmus of the greatness of the Essence, the barrier between Your creation and the glories of Your Face,

كُلِّ الكُلِّ فِي سِرِّ كُلِّ الكُلِّ حَيْثُ الكُلُّ لِلْكُلِّ

the whole of the whole within the secret of the whole of the whole, where the whole is for the whole,

فُيُوض الجَمالِ والجَلالِ والكَمالِ

the outpourings of beauty, majesty and perfection,

مِنْ حَيْثُ لا حَيْثُ الى حَيْثُ لا حَيْثُ فِي حَيْثُ لا حَيْثُ

from where there is no where, to where there is no where, in where there is no where.

فَصَلِّ اللَّهُمَّ عَلَيْهِ وسَلِّمْ مِنْ حَيْثُ لا حَيْثُ الى حَيْثُ لا حَيْثُ فِي حَيْثُ لا حَيْثُ

So bless him, O God, and give him peace, from where there is no where, to where there is no where, in where there is no where,

كَما أنْتَ حَيْثُ لا حَيْثُ عَدَدَ الأعْدادِ المُتَناهِيَةِ كُلِّها

just as You are where there is no where, to the number of all finite numbers

مِنْ حَيْثُ انْتِهاؤُها فى عِلْمِكَ مِنْ جَمِيعِ الحَيْثِيّاتِ

insofar as they end in Your knowledge, from every standpoint,

ومِنْ حَيْثُ لا أعْدادَ مِنْ وُجُوهِ عَدَمِ الحَيْثِيّاتِ كُلِّها فِي مَكْنُونِ عِلْمِكَ

and insofar as there are no numbers, from every aspect of the absence of all standpoints in the hidden store of Your knowledge,

مِنْ غَيْرِ انْتِهاءٍ اِنَّكَ عَلى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

without end. You have power over all things.

بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.

اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلى مَوْلانا مُحَمَّدٍ نُورِكَ اللّامِعِ ومَظْهَرِ سِرِّكَ الهامِعِ

O God, bless our master Muhammad, Your shining light and the place where Your outpouring secret appears,

الَّذِي طَرَّزْتَ بِجَمالِهِ الأكْوانَ وزَيَّنْتَ بِبَهْجَةِ جَلالِهِ الأوانَ

with whose beauty You embroidered the worlds and with the splendour of whose majesty You adorned time,

الَّذِي فَتَحْتَ ظُهُورَ العالَمِ مِنْ نُورِ حَقِيقَتِهِ وخَتَمْتَ كَمالَهُ بِأسْرارِ نُبُوَّتِهِ

from the light of whose reality You opened the appearing of the world, and whose perfection You sealed with the secrets of his prophethood,

فَظَهَرَتْ صُوَرُ الحُسْنِ مِنْ فَيْضِهِ فِي أحْسَنِ تَقْوِيمٍ

so the forms of beauty appeared from his overflow in the finest stature,

ولَوْلا هُوَ ما ظَهَرَتْ لِصُورَةٍ عَيْنٌ مِنَ العَدَمِ الرَّمِيمِ

and but for him no form would have had an entity appear out of crumbling non-existence;

الَّذِي ما اسْتَغاثَكَ بِهِ جائِعٌ الّا شَبِعَ ولا ظَمْآنٌ لا رَوى

the one through whom no hungry person called on You for help without being filled, nor any thirsty one without being quenched,

ولا خائِفٌ الّا أمِنَ ولا لَهْفانُ الّا أُغِيثَ

nor any frightened one without being made safe, nor any desperate one without being rescued.

واِنِّي لَهْفانُ مُسْتَغِيثُكَ أسْتَمْطِرُ رَحْمَتَكَ الواسِعَةَ مِنْ خَزائِنِ جُودِكَ

And I am desperate, calling on You for help, asking for the rain of Your wide mercy from the treasuries of Your generosity.

فَأغِثْنِي يا رَحْمنُ

So rescue me, O All-Merciful,

يا مَنْ اِذا نَظَرَ بِعَيْنِ حِلْمِهِ وعَفْوِهِ لَمْ يَظْهَرْ فى جَنْبِ كِبْرِياءِ حِلْمِهِ وعَظَمَةِ عَفْوِهِ ذَنْبٌ

O You who, when You look with the eye of Your forbearance and pardon, no sin shows beside the grandeur of Your forbearance and the greatness of Your pardon:

اغْفِرْ لِي وتُبْ عَلَيَّ وتَجاوَزْ عَنِّي يا كَرِيمُ

forgive me, turn to me, and pass over my faults, O Generous One.

بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.

اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلى الذّاتِ الكُنْهِ قِبْلَةِ وُجُوهِ تَجَلِّياتِ الكُنْهِ

O God, bless the essence, the inmost essence, toward which the faces of the self-disclosures of the inmost essence turn,

عَيْنِ الكُنْهِ فِي الكُنْهِ الجامِعِ لِحَقائِقِ كَمالِ كُنْهِ الكُنْهِ

the very essence within the essence, gathering the realities of the perfection of the essence of the essence,

القائِمِ بِالكُنْهِ فى الكُنْهِ لِلْكُنْهِ

standing by the essence, within the essence, for the essence,

صَلاةً لا غايَةَ لِكُنْهِها دُونَ الكُنْهِ

with a blessing whose essence has no limit short of the essence,

وعَلى آلِهِ وسَلِّمْ كَما يَنْبَغِي مِنَ الكُنْهِ لِلْكُنْهِ

and on his family, and give peace, as is fitting from the essence to the essence.

اللَّهُمَّ اِنِّي أسْألُكَ بِنُورِ الأنْوارِ الَّذِي هُوَ عَيْنُكَ لا غَيْرُكَ

O God, I ask You by the Light of lights, which is You Yourself and none other than You,

أنْ تُرِيَنِي وَجْهَ نَبِيِّكَ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وسَلَّمَ كَما هُوَ عِنْدَكَ آمِينَ

to show me the face of Your Prophet Muhammad, God bless him and give him peace, as he is with You. Amen.

بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.

اللّهُمَّ صَلِّ على أُمِّ كِتابِ كَمالاتِ كُنْهِ الذّاتِ عَيْنِ الوُجُودِ المُطْلَقِ الجامِعِ لِسائِرِ التَّقْيِيداتِ

O God, bless the mother of the book of the perfections of the Essence's innermost reality, the very source of absolute being, which gathers every limitation into itself,

صُورَةِ ناسُوتِ الخَلْقِ مَعانِي لاهُوتِ الحَقِّ الغَيْبِ الذّاتِ والشَّهادَةِ الأَسْماءِ والصِّفاتِ

the form of creation's human nature and the meanings of the Real's divine nature, the unseen of the Essence and the seen of the Names and Attributes,

النّاظِرِ بِالكُلِّ فى الكُلِّ مِنَ الكُلِّ لِلكُلِّيّاتِ والجُزْئِيّاتِ

who looks with the whole, in the whole, from the whole, at universals and particulars,

كَوْثَر سَلْسَبِيلِ مَنْهَلِ حَوْضِ مَشارِبِ جَمِيعِ التَّجَلِّياتِ

the Kawthar and Salsabīl, the spring that feeds the pool where every self-disclosure is drunk,

المُلَذِّ بِصُورَةِ نَفْسِهِ في جَنَّةِ فِرْدَوْسِ ذاتِهِ بِنَظَرِهِ بِهِ مِنْهُ إِلَيْهِ فِيهِ

who is given delight by the form of his own self in the garden of his essence's Paradise, by his gazing, through it, from it, toward it, in it,

بَحْرِ قامُوسِ الجَمْعِ المُطَمْطَمِ وطِرازِ رِداءِ الكِبْرِياءِ المُطَلْسَمِ

the sea, the fathomless ocean of Union in full flood, the embroidered border of the sealed cloak of Grandeur,

وَراء الوَراء بِلا وَراء ودُونَ الدُّون بِلا دُون

beyond the beyond with no beyond, below the below with no below,

الَّذى لا أَحَدَ يُساوِيهِ ولا فِيهِ يُدانِيهِ

the one whom no one equals, and in whom no one comes near him,

كُرْسِيِّ الصِّفاتِ والأَسْماءِ جَبَلِ طُورِ تَجَلِّياتِ المُسَمَّى رُوحِ ذاتِ الوُجُودِ

the Footstool of the Attributes and Names, the mount of Sinai of the self-disclosures of the Named, the spirit of the essence of being,

مَجْمَعِ حَقائِقِ اللّاهُوتِ المَشْهُودِ كَنْزِ المَعارِفِ الذّاتِيَّةِ قُرْآنِ الحَقائِقِ الالَهِيَّةِ

where the realities of the witnessed divine nature meet, the treasure of the knowledge of the Essence, the Qurʾān of the divine realities,

قُوَّةِ الحَوْقَلَةِ وكِفايَةِ الحَسْبَلَةِ ورَحْمَةِ البَسْمَلَةِ

the strength of the ḥawqala, the sufficiency of the ḥasbala and the mercy of the basmala,

عَيْنِ العَيْنِ الحافِظِ بِقائِمِ صُورَتِهِ كُلَّ أَيْن

the eye of the Eye, who keeps every 'where' in being by the standing of his form,

حَرْفِ الغَيْنِ المُعْجَمِ ونُقْطَةِ الحَقِّ المُبْهَمِ

the dotted letter ghayn, the point of the Real that cannot be made out,

الَّذى لا يُتْلَى قُرْآنُهُ إِلّا مِنْ حَيْثُ الحَقّ لِعُجْمَةِ أَحَدِيَّةِ ذاتِهِ عَنْ لُغَةِ الخَلْقِ

whose Qurʾān can be recited only from the side of the Real, because the oneness of his essence is beyond the speech of creatures,

عَيْنِ العَظَمَةِ وهاءِ الهُوِيَّةِ نُونِ النّاسُوتِ لامِ اللّاهُوتِ

the ʿayn of Majesty and the hāʾ of He-ness, the nūn of human nature, the lām of divine nature,

مَبْدَإِ الكُلِّ ومَرْجِعِ الكُلِّ وهُوَ الكُلُّ فى الكُلِّ بِلا بَعْضٍ ولا كُلٍّ

the beginning of all and the return of all; he is the all in the all, with no part and no whole.

يا طَه يا عَيْنَ الحَقِّ المُبِينِ يا قَلْبَ قُرْآنِ الحَقائِقِ يا يس

O Ṭā Hā, O eye of the manifest Real, O heart of the Qurʾān of realities, O Yā Sīn,

كَلَّتِ الأَلْسُنُ عَنْ تَفْسِيرِ جَمالِ صِفاتِكَ وتَحَيَّرَتِ العُقُولُ وتاهَتْ في مَهامِهِ حَقائِقِ كُنْهِ ذاتِكَ

tongues grow weary of explaining the beauty of your attributes, and minds are bewildered and lost in the wastes of the realities of your essence's depth.

صَلَّى اللهُ العَظِيمُ عَلَيْكَ وسَلَّمَ يا مُحَمَّدُ بِكَمالِ أَحَدِيَّةِ ذاتِهِ وصِفاتِهِ على كَمالِ جَمْعِيَّةِ أَحَدِيَّةِ ذاتِكَ وصِفاتِكَ

May God the Mighty bless you and give you peace, O Muḥammad, with the fullness of the oneness of His essence and attributes, upon the fullness of the gathered oneness of your essence and attributes.

بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.

اللّهُمَّ صَلِّ على عَيْنِ بَحْرِ الحَقائِقِ الوُجُودِيَّةِ المُطْلَقَةِ اللّاهُوتِيَّةِ

O God, bless the source of the sea of the realities of being, absolute and divine,

ومَنْبَعِ الرَّقائِقِ اللَّطِيفَةِ المُقَيَّدَةِ النّاسُوتِيَّةِ

the spring of the subtle threads, bound and human,

صُورَةِ الجَمالِ ومَطْلَعِ الجَلالِ مَجْلَى الأُلُوهِيَّةِ وسِرِّ إِطْلاقِ الأَحَدِيَّةِ

the form of Beauty and the rising-place of Majesty, where Divinity shows itself, the secret of the boundlessness of Oneness,

عَرْشِ اسْتِواءِ الذّاتِ وَجْهِ مَحاسِنِ الصِّفاتِ

the Throne on which the Essence is established, the face of the beauties of the Attributes,

مُزِيلِ بُرْقُعِ حِجابِ ظُلُماتِ اللَّبْسِ بِطَلْعَةِ شَمْسِ حَقائِقِ كُنْهِ ذاتِهِ الأَنْفَسِ

who lifts the veil that screens the darknesses of confusion, by the rising sun of the realities of his most precious essence's depth,

عَنْ وَجْهِ تَجَلِّياتِ الكَمالِ الالَهِيِّ الأَقْدَسِ

from the face of the self-disclosures of the most holy divine perfection;

كِتابٍ مَسْطُورٍ جَمْعِ أَحَدِيَّةِ الذّاتِ الحَقِّ في رَقٍّ مَنْشُورٍ تَجَلِّياتِ الشُّؤُونِ الالَهِيَّةِ المُسَمَّى كَثْرَةُ صُورِها بِالخَلْقِ

a book inscribed, the gathering of the oneness of the Real Essence, on an unrolled parchment of the self-disclosures of the divine modes, whose many forms are called creation;

جانِبِ طُورِ الحَقائِقِ الرُّوحِيَّةِ الأَيْمَنِ المُكَلَّمِ مِنْهُ مُوسَى النَّفْسِ

the right-hand slope of the mount of spiritual realities, from which the Moses of the soul is spoken to

بِأَنا اللهُ لا إِلٰهَ إِلّا أَنا في حَضْرَةِ القُدْسِ

with «I am God; there is no god but I», in the presence of holiness.

يا كامِلَ الذّاتِ يا جَمِيلَ الصِّفاتِ يا مُنْتَهَى الغاياتِ يا نُورَ الحَقِّ يا سِراجَ العَوالِمِ

O perfect in essence, O beautiful in attributes, O furthest of all goals, O light of the Real, O lamp of the worlds,

يا مُحَمَّدُ يا أَحْمَدُ يا أَبا القاسِمِ

O Muḥammad, O Aḥmad, O Abu l-Qāsim,

جَلَّ كَمالُكَ أَنْ يُعَبَّرَ عَنْهُ لِسانٌ وعَزَّ جَمالُكَ أَنْ يَكُونَ مُدْرَكًا لانْسانٍ

your perfection is too high for any tongue to express, your beauty too rare for any human being to grasp,

وتَعاظَمَ جَلالُكَ أَنْ يَخْطُرَ فى جَنانٍ

and your majesty too great to pass through any heart.

صَلَّى اللهُ سُبْحانَهُ وتَعالَى عَلَيْكَ وسَلَّمَ يا رَسُولَ اللهِ يا مَجْلَى الكَمالاتِ الالَهِيَّةِ الأَعْظَمَ

May God, glorified and exalted, bless you and give you peace, O Messenger of God, O greatest place where the divine perfections show.

بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.

اللّهُمَّ صَلِّ على مَوْلانا مُحَمَّدِ سِراجِ أُفُقِ الأُلُوهِيَّةِ

O God, bless our master Muḥammad, the lamp on the horizon of Divinity,

ومَعْدِنِ كُنُوزِ الأَسْرارِ الرَّبِّيَّةِ سِرِّ اسْتِواءِ الرَّحْمانِيَّةِ

the mine of the treasures of the secrets of the Lord, the secret of the All-Merciful's being established on the Throne,

مَنْظَرِ وُجُوهِ الأَسْماءِ الالَهِيَّةِ ومَظْهَرِ سَبْعِيَّةِ الأَسْماءِ النَّفْسِيَّةِ

where the faces of the divine Names are seen, where the seven Names of the Self appear,

حَقِّ الحَقِّ ونُقْطَةِ دائِرَةِ اسْتِمْدادِ وُجُودِ الخَلْقِ

the truth of the Real, the centre of the circle from which creation draws its existence,

مَصْدَرِ الهُوّ فى الهُوّ لِلْهُوّ مِنَ الهُوّ

the source of the He in the He, for the He, from the He,

مَنْ نَبَعَتْ فِيهِ ومِنْهُ أَسْرارُ اللهِ لا إِلٰهَ إِلّا هُوَ

in whom and from whom the secrets of «God, there is no god but He» have welled up,

قَلْبِ قُرْآنِ الحَقائِقِ الحَوْقَلِيَّةِ في حَضْرَةِ كانَ اللهُ ولا شَيْءَ مَعَهُ

the heart of the Qurʾān of the realities of the ḥawqala, in the presence of «God was, and nothing was with Him»,

الكِتابِ المُبِينِ الَّذى ما فَرَّطَ اللهُ فِيهِ مِنَ الحَقائِقِ الذّاتِيَّةِ مِنْ شَيْءٍ

the clear Book in which God has left out nothing of the realities of the Essence,

لِسانِ كَلِماتِ اللهِ التّامّاتِ المُتَرْجِمِ عَنْ أَسْرارِ العِشْقِ الالَهِيِّ مِنّا ومِنْ وَراءِ غايَةِ الغاياتِ

the tongue of God's perfect words, who gives voice to the secrets of divine love, from us and from beyond the furthest goal:

صَلاةً بِلِسانِ حَقٍّ مِنْ حَقٍّ لِحَقٍّ

a blessing in a tongue of truth, from truth, to truth,

صَلاةً لا يَتَطَرَّقُ إِلَيْها الاحْصاءُ ولا يُحِيطُ بِها عِلْمُ مَخْلُوقٍ بِوَجْهٍ مِنْ وُجُوهِ الاسْتِقْصاءِ

a blessing that no counting can reach and no created knowledge can take in, by any way of searching it out.

بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.

اللّهُمَّ صَلِّ على الذّاتِ الحَقِّيَّةِ القُدْسِيَّةِ والمَعانِي الكَمالِيَّةِ الجَلالِيَّةِ الجَمالِيَّةِ

O God, bless the holy essence of the Real and the meanings of perfection, majesty and beauty,

قُرْآنِ حَقائِقِ الذّاتِ وفُرْقانِ تَجَلِّياتِ الصِّفاتِ

the Qurʾān of the realities of the Essence and the Furqān of the self-disclosures of the Attributes,

عَيْنِ الحَياةِ الأَزَلِيَّةِ مَعْنَى التَّفْصِيلاتِ الأَبَدِيَّةِ

the spring of life without beginning, the meaning of the unfoldings without end,

رُوحِ المَعانِي الالَهِيَّةِ وسِرِّ صُوَرِ المَبانِى الخَلْقِيَّةِ

the spirit of the divine meanings and the secret of the forms of the created structures,

دَهْرِ الدُّهُورِ وكِتابِ الحَقِّ المَنْشُورِ

the age of ages, the unrolled book of the Real,

مَعْنَى المُكالَمَةِ الالَهِيَّةِ الطُّورِيَّةِ في حَضْرَةِ الوادِى القُدْسِيَّةِ المُوساوِيَّةِ

the meaning of God's converse on Sinai, in the holy presence of the valley of Moses,

نُورِ سُبُحاتِ الوَجْهِ في جَبَلِ قافِ تَجَلِّياتِ الكُنْهِ

the light of the glories of the Face on the mountain of Qāf of the self-disclosures of the innermost depth,

صُورَةِ الحَقِّ ومَعْنَى سِرِّ حُرُوفِ الخَلْقِ

the form of the Real and the meaning of the secret of the letters of creation,

مَجْمَعِ بُحُورِ الحَقائِقِ لِسانِ تَرْجُمانِ الدَّقائِقِ

where the seas of the realities meet, the tongue that interprets the finest points,

حَقِيقَةِ الحَقائِقِ الكُلِّيّاتِ والجُزْئِيّاتِ عَرْشِ رَحْمانِيَّةِ الذّاتِ

the reality of the realities, universal and particular, the Throne of the Essence's all-mercy:

صَلاةً جامِعَةً لِكُلِّ التَّجَلِّياتِ مُحِيطَةً بِجَمِيعِ المَعانِى والصُّورِيّاتِ

a blessing that gathers every self-disclosure and takes in all meanings and all forms,

وعَلى آلِهِ وصَحْبِهِ وسَلِّمْ

and on his family and companions, and give them peace.

بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.

اللّهُمَّ صَلِّ على سُلْطانِ حَضَراتِ الذّاتِ مالِكِ أَزِمَّةِ تَجَلِّياتِ الصِّفاتِ

O God, bless the sultan of the presences of the Essence, who holds the reins of the self-disclosures of the Attributes,

قُطْبِ رَحَى عَوالِمِ الأُلُوهِيَّةِ كَثِيبِ الرُّؤْيَةِ يَوْمَ الزَّوْرِ الأَعْظَمِ في مَشاهِدِكَ الجِنانِيَّةِ

the axis on which the worlds of Divinity turn, the dune of vision on the day of the great visit, in Your scenes of the Garden,

جِبالِ مَوْجِ بِحارِ أَحَدِيَّةِ الذّاتِ طِلَّسْمِ كُنُوزِ المَعارِفِ الالَهِيّاتِ

the mountainous waves of the seas of the Essence's oneness, the talisman that guards the treasures of divine knowledge,

سِدْرَةِ مُنْتَهَى الاحاطِيّاتِ الخَلْقِيّاتِ الصِّفاتِيّاتِ

the Lote-tree at the furthest bound of all that encompasses, in creation and in attributes,

بَيْتِ مَعْمُورِ التَّجَلِّياتِ الكُنْهِيّاتِ الذّاتِيّاتِ سَقْفِ مَرْفُوعِ الكَمالاتِ الأَسْمائِيَّةِ

the frequented House of the self-disclosures of the innermost Essence, the raised roof of the perfections of the Names,

بَحْرِ مَسْجُورِ العُلُومِ اللَّدُنِّيّاتِ حَوْضِ الأُلُوهِيَّةِ الأَعْظَمِ

the brimming sea of the knowledge given from God's own presence, the greatest pool of Divinity,

المُمِدِّ لِبِحارِ أَمْواجِ صُوَرِ الكَوْنِ الظّاهِرَةِ مِنْ فُيُوضِ حَقائِقِ أَنْفاسِهِ

which feeds the seas whose waves are the forms of existence, appearing from the outpourings of the realities of his breaths,

قَلَمِ القُدْرَةِ الالَهِيَّةِ العُظْمَوِيَّةِ الكاتِبِ في لَوْحِ نَفْسِهِ ما كانَ وما يَكُونُ

the pen of the mighty divine power, writing on the tablet of his own self all that has been and all that will be

مِنْ مَحاسِنِ مُبْدَعاتِ العالَمِ وتَقَلُّباتِهِ

of the beauties of the world's created wonders and its changes,

وجَمالِ كُلِّ صُورَةٍ إِلَهِيَّةٍ وسِرِّ حَقِيقَتِها غَيْبًا وشَهادَةً

and the beauty of every divine form and the secret of its reality, unseen and seen,

وجَلالِ كُلِّ مَعْنًى كَمالِيٍّ بَدْأً وإِعادَةً

and the majesty of every meaning of perfection, in beginning and in return;

لِسانِ العِلْمِ الإِلَهِيِّ المُطْلَقِ التّالِى لِقُرْآنِ حَقائِقِ حُسْنِ ذاتِهِ

the tongue of absolute divine knowledge, which recites the Qurʾān of the realities of the beauty of his essence

مِنْ كِتابٍ مَكْنُونٍ غَيْبِ كُنْهِ صِفاتِهِ

from a hidden Book, the unseen depth of his attributes,

جَمْعِ الجَمْعِ وفَرْقِ الفَرْقِ مِنْ حَيْثُ لا جَمْعَ ولا فَرْقَ

the union of union and the separation of separation, where there is neither union nor separation;

لا لِسانَ لِمَخْلُوقٍ يَبْلُغُ الثَّناءَ عَلَيْكَ

no created tongue can reach the praise that is your due.

صَلَّى اللهُ وسَلَّمَ يا سَيِّدَنا يا مَوْلانا يا مُحَمَّدُ عَلَيْكَ

May God bless and give peace, O our master, O our patron, O Muḥammad, upon you.

بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful.

اللّٰهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى الْكُنْهِ الذَّاتِىِّ وَالْقُدْسِ الصِّفَاتِىِّ

O God, bless the depth of the Essence and the holiness of the attributes,

نُورِ الْأَسْمَاءِ وَرِدَاءِ الْكِبْرِيَاءِ

the light of the names and the cloak of majesty,

اِزَارِ الْعَظَمَةِ الاِلَهِيَّةِ عَيْنِ الاِحَاطَةِ الذَّاتِيَّةِ

the wrap of divine grandeur, the very source of the Essence's all-encompassing reach,

تَجَلِّيَاتِ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ

the self-disclosures of the unseen and the seen,

إِنْسَانِ عَيْنِ الْحَقِيقَةِ الْحَقِّيَّةِ وَالْخَلْقِيَّةِ

the pupil of the eye of reality, both divine and created,

مُحَمَّدٍ مَحْمُودِ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاءِ

Muhammad, the one praised by the people of earth and heaven,

وَرُوحِ حَيَاةِ الْمَاءِ الرُّوحِ الاِلَهِىِّ وَالنُّورِ الْبَهَاءِ

the spirit of the life in water, the divine spirit, the radiant light,

رَحْمَةِ الْوُجُودِ وَعَلَمِ الشُّهُودِ

the mercy of existence and the banner of witnessing,

صَلَاةً ذَاتِيَّةً أَزَلِيَّةً أَبَدِيَّةً

with a blessing of Your Essence, without beginning and without end.

اللّٰهُمَّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَيْهِ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ

O God, and grant him peace in the same way.

بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful.

اللّٰهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مَفَاتِيحِ غَيْبِ هُوِيَّةِ الذَّاتِ

O God, bless the keys to the hidden He-ness of the Essence,

بَحْرِ مُحِيطِ الْأَسْمَاءِ وَالصِّفَاتِ

the ocean that encompasses the names and the attributes,

مَدِينَةِ عِلْمِ أَنَانِيَّةِ الْأَحَدِيَّةِ

the city of knowledge of the 'I' of the One Alone,

تَعْدَادِ وُجُوهِ صِفَاتِ لوَاحِدِيَّةِ

the counting-out of the aspects of the attributes of Unity,

نُقْطَةِ بَحْرِ الْعَمَاءِ الذَّاتِىِّ وَحُسْنِ وُجُوهِ الْمَعْنَى الصِّفَاتِىِّ

the point of the ocean of the Essence's Cloud, the beauty of the faces of the meaning of the attributes,

غَيْبِ هُوِيَّةِ الْهُوِيَّاتِ وَشَهَادَةِ أَنِيَّةِ الْأَنِيَّاتِ

the hidden He-ness of every he-ness, the witnessed being of every being,

مَجْلَى سُلْطَانِ سِرِّ اسْمِكَ الْأَعْظَمِ مُحَمَّدِ

the place where the power of the secret of Your greatest name shines out, Muhammad,

قِبْلَةِ وُجُوهِ تَجَلِّيَاتِكَ الْمُعَظَّمِ

the revered qibla toward which the faces of Your self-disclosures turn.

صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ

God bless him and his family and grant him peace.

بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful.

اللّٰهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى الْكَمَالِ الْمُطْلَقِ وَالْجَمَالِ الْمُحَقَّقِ

O God, bless absolute perfection and beauty made real,

عَيْنِ أَعْيَانِ الْخَلْقِ وَنُورِ تَجَلِّيَاتِ الْحَقِّ

the source of the fixed essences of creation and the light of the Real's self-disclosures.

فَصَلِّ اللّٰهُمَّ بِكَ مِنْكَ فِيهِ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمْ

So bless him, O God, by You, from You, in him, upon him, and grant him peace.

بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful.

اللّٰهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى مَوْلَانَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِهِ

O God, bless and grant peace to our master Muhammad and to his family,

عَدَدَ الْأَعْدَادِ كُلِّهَا مِنْ حَيْثُ انْتِهَاؤُهَا فِي عِلْمِكَ

as many as all numbers, in so far as they come to an end in Your knowledge,

وَمِنْ حَيْثُ لَا أَعْدَادَ مِنْ حَيْثُ إِحَاطَتُكَ بِمَا تَعْلَمُ لِنَفْسِكَ مِنْ غَيْرِ انْتِهَاءٍ

and beyond all numbers, in so far as You encompass what You know of Yourself, without end.

إِنَّكَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

You have power over all things.

قَالَ الْمُؤَلِّفُ قَدَّسَ اللّٰهُ سِرَّهُ اِنَّ هٰذِهِ الصَّلَوَاتِ قَدِ اسْتَوَتْ عَلَى عَرْشِ الْأَنْوَارِ

The author, God hallow his secret, said: These blessings have settled upon the Throne of lights,

وَأَرْجُلُهُنَّ مُتَدَلِّيٰتٌ عَلَى كُرْسِىِّ الْأَسْرَارِ

their feet hanging down upon the Footstool of secrets.

تُصَلِّينَ فِى كِتَابِ الْكَمٰلَاتِ الْمُحَمَّدِيَّةِ بِقُرْآنِ الْحَقَائِقِ الْأَحْمَدِيَّةِ

They pray, in the book of Muhammadan perfections, by the recitation of Ahmadian realities.

قَدْ طَلَعَتْ فِى سَمٰوَاتِ الْعُلَى شَمْسُهَا وَارْتَفَعَ عَنْ وَجْهِ الْكَمَالِ الْمُحَمَّدِىِّ نِقَابُهَا

Their sun has risen in the highest heavens, and their veil has lifted from the face of Muhammadan perfection.

وَبَحْرُهُنَّ فِى الْحَقَائِقِ الاِلٰهِيَّةِ زَاخِرٌ وَهُنَّ فِى الْقِسْمَةِ مِنَ الْمَعَارِفِ الْمُحَمَّدِيَّةِ حَظٌّ وَافِرٌ

Their sea swells with divine realities, and in the sharing-out of Muhammadan knowledge they are an ample portion.

خُذْهُنَّ اِلَيْكَ يَا مَنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَسْبَحَ فِى كَوْثَرِ النُّورِ الْمُحَمَّدِىِّ

Take them to yourself, you who want to swim in the abundant stream of Muhammadan light,

وَجُلْ فِى عَجَائِبِ مَعَانِيهَا يَا مَنْ يَبْتَغِى الاِغْتِرَافَ مِنَ الْبَحْرِ الْأَحْمَدِىِّ

and range among the wonders of their meanings, you who seek to draw from the Ahmadian sea.

تَتْلُو عَلَيْكَ مِنْ كِتَابِ الْحَقَائِقِ الْمُحَمَّدِيَّةِ مُحْكَمَ الْآيَاتِ

They recite to you, from the book of Muhammadan realities, its firmly set verses,

وَتُفَسِّرُ لَكَ بَعْضَ نَقْشِ حُرُوفِ آيَاتِهِ الْبَيِّنَاتِ

and explain to you something of the inscribed letters of its clear verses.

وَاللّٰهُ يَهْدِى مَنْ يَشَاءُ اِلَى صِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ

And God guides whom He wills to a straight path.