Manuscript volume 28 · Page 139

أهل التقى لم يأمنوا كيدها

مع التُّقَى فكيف أهل الفجور

لها صفات الحق في مكرها

و ما لنا في مكره من شعور

لو أنها تنصف في حالها

كانت لهم نعم البشير النذير

من صدقها في حالها أنها

أرت رحى الموت علينا تدور

و كان لي فيها وما عندها

موعظة تَذْكِرَةٌ للخبير

بها ينال العبد في كونها

كمال نعت الحق يوم النشور

و هو على النصف إذا ما مضى

عنها ومن يجحد هٰذا يَجُورْ

ميزانها قام بها والذي

يعلمه هو العليم القدير

كأحمد السبتي في الفعل إذ

ملكه الله زمام الأمور

The people of reverence did not feel safe from her plotting,

Despite their reverence—what then of the people of wickedness?

In her plotting she has the attributes of the Real,

While of His plotting we have no awareness.

If she dealt equitably in her state,

She would be an excellent bearer of glad tidings and warning to them.

Among her truthfulness in her state is that she

Has shown death's mill revolving over us.

For me, in her and in what she holds, there was

An admonition, a reminder for the well-informed.

Through her, within her being, the servant attains

The perfection of the Real's attribute on the Day of Rising.

He is at half when he passes

Away from her; whoever denies this acts unjustly.

Her balance stands through her, and the One

Who knows it is the All-Knowing, the Powerful.

Like Aḥmad al-Sabtī in action, when

God gave him possession of the reins of affairs.