| 1 | O you who believe! Let it be said: Al-Zakar; |
| 2 | The Male, the Masculine; |
| 3 | And the sixteenth name of Allah, the One, the Absolute, the Almighty. |
| 4 | The companion, gatherer and protector; |
| 5 | The half by which life is conceived; |
| 6 | The strength, the warrior, the brave; |
| 7 | Allah is indeed masculine. Yet Allah is also feminine. |
| 8 | To deny the feminine in favor of the masculine, |
| 9 | Is to deny the existence of the night in favor of the day; |
| 10 | Or to deny the existence of the sun in favor of the rain. |
| 11 | Such thinking is without sensibility, and foolish. |
| 12 | To deny the night in favor of the day; |
| 13 | Or to deny the rain in favor of the sun. |
| 14 | The Male is but one half and can never be properly whole unless with a woman. |