None but they can claim the triumphant lead

by God, no runner has ever overtaken them.

In God is their love and in Him is their hate

for the sake of their like, the Heavens compete.

They are veiled from you; were you to count them

as mere mortals, the claims of Eve would be refuted.

And God bears witness—Exalted is His Word—that they

are the trustees over the treasuries of His Knowledge.

It is as if they—I have believed in them—are His Will

Glory be to Him, that He might will what they have willed.

Had I not known His Oneness through their virtue

I would have thought them to be His associates.

You would imagine Jesus, in his majesty, to be their father

upon whom tenderness and splendor lean.

Religion is that which is cast to them in purity

and Inspiration is what the "sons" are taught.

Through them, He is dispensed from all other learned men

and through Him, they are enriched beyond all else.

The Master of the Creed holds it by its right hand