1. The neighborhood of singers between flags and knowledge
For in songs are meanings of beauty and generosity

2. The morning breeze stirs for the inspired one a morning breeze
In its diffusion good news for the nearing caravan from the gatherer

3. After me it made easy living for them so after them
It spilled a stream of blood from my overflowing tears

4. Indeed sleepiness denied my body stingily so it became
Telling of sleepiness weakly in love for a few coins

5. Do you possess the gaze of the antelope from the antelope's eye
While the lion seizes the prey boldly with canines bared

6. Pearly white Rym if she casts carnelian then in
The carnelian of my tears lies wealth making hers unnecessary to cast

7. In your face is Ibn Abi Salma and his joy
And in your cheeks softness, Abu Hirm

8. The heart went astray so the body swore bitterness
Thus the body in illness and the heart in grief

9. I shed my blood deliberately so there is no retribution
Upon them in love, I shed my blood

10. I saw their tyranny as justice and their abandonment
As union and my humiliation as honor in their affection

11. My patience and my body and my glance and the heart in sorrow
Alas a lean overpouring of tears in anguish

12. It frees every prisoner in their homes
Except the prisoner of their gazelles' eyelids

13. I wish my soul knew, did it find
What they placed in my heart the day I was among them

14. For me their reproacher rouses in remembering them an ecstasy
For reproach is better heard than tunes to my ears

15. And my blamer for when he saw my infatuation
If you tasted the flavor of passion O friend you would not blame

16. The lad's nature increases in pleasantness like
The flowers that thrived with the breeze

17. I collected my opinion and extracted its cream
Yet I have no peers to charge with error

18. So I came with refutation and resolve choosing
The most eloquent words and phrases from argument

19. And one among us assumed integrity
So each, whenever you desire our judgment for an arbiter

20. Far be passion, it's a disgrace, that an ignoble
Foolish fallen soul succeeds in it

21. I saw the generous people in toil
While you are spared the toil of the lofty in peace

22. They set afire my deepest being so I plunged with it
In a sea of love with the wave of passionate love colliding

23. And love, its beginning is sweet and its end bitter
And its pleasure leads to regret

24. No, by passion and by our nights that passed
Not relieved since your era O literate neighbors

25. If after you I remain alive then no wonder
I remained but for prolonged grief and pain

26. When the moles on my cheek fade concealing
My tears depicted them with a fountain and stream

27. They said youth is an illness with no cure
I said: union is the cure for that illness

28. They said: I asked so I said: life after you
They said: so I wandered, I said: the star in the darkness

29. As if my body and the teardrop in its abundance
Became a gleaming full moon arranged within it

30. I sing with the jewel of my tearful glances that
I am destitute and without means among the youth

31. Let me shed my tears' necklace for they will not
Change their stance, though they forbid attaining their kindness

32. A coal of passion sometimes ignites in my core
When the darkness recalls my neighbors in Abi Salma's home

33. The nights of pining grew long in sorrow while shortened
For me were the days of joy with their company

34. So why does the night of pining have no dawn looming? And is
There respite in the dawn for me from ceaseless agony?

35. How much my resolve endured time's turns but did not
Weaken, the nights of pining rather empowered my determination

36. O soul you made me taste the bitter of passion for them
Until I spill with the swords of my eyelids my blood

37. Patience was a confidante to me so betraying me
Mercilessly I suffered my sorrows without a protector

38. O heart can you erase misguidance with the guidance
In praise of best of creation, master of nations

39. Taha Abu al-Qasim the guide bearer of good tidings messenger
Of Allah elite of Abdullah the generous

40. Cleansing the carpenter, kind in nature marked with
Generosity, heroism, loftiness and might

41. Lofty in ambitions son of the lofty in ambitions
Son of the lofty in ambitions son of the lofty in ambitions

42. Of immaculate being beyond blemish touching it
Has it stumbled? And He chose it, fanned by the soul's breath

43. Great in manners the manners were guided by it to guidance
Perfecting honor in morals and traits

44. High in ascension, guide of paths, fulfilling wishes, savior
Of mankind, path of the clear, wide road

45. He surpassed mankind in manners and conduct
And overwhelmed them with generosity including the blind

46. His generosity is the sea in its flow of knowing
And his knowledge the sea casting gems of words

47. He quenched the gardens of hopes with his generosity's comfort
Erasing the plains so they blossomed with blessings and boons

48. And the likes of him the hopeful may hope but can
Any equal to that unique, singular, learned one be hoped for?

49. Guided, guided one seeking aid, aided one seeking victory, glorious one
Seeking help, helping river, honored courageous one

50. His feats fell short of my grasping them so imaginations grew
Of every eloquent, insightful orator inept in perception

51. His names described his deeds so they became
Recited letters of "I swear" out of reverence

52. He is the hoped for in life, the intercessor in
The next so hold fast and seek refuge in him and cling

53. By him the Arabs gained might and time submitted to them
And crowns bowed down in submission to turbans

54. When he undertook command, determined
Might faltered from it while every resolute one hesitated

55. With the most wondrous resolute lofty ambitions
Unsheathed swords shone and smiling countenances radiated

56. And he unsheathed from his resolves the sharp swords in earnest
West and east so the state of injustice perished

57. And the stars of monotheism shone brightly
Illuminating the darkness' gloom with the full moon of guidance

58. A prophecy they attempted to conceal but it appeared
That suns enhanced it beyond concealment

59. As if his law is daylight the darknesses of misguidance vanished
By it, the pitch black night of blindness vanished

60. Of his pure morals is the string of his river of abundance
Flowing with the pure spring of delectable wine

61. So thanks and praise and reward are gains
In the best gains, in the best gains

62. He did not attain any of the life's vanities though it presented
Its treasures desirously yet he did not cast

63. When I resorted to him complaining of
Wretchedness, I became secure and the wretchesness vanished with boons

64. He invades the enemy with steeds'
Forelocks bearing victory's blackness, not the crimson

65. With injustice he rewards the unjust tyrants to him
Yet his injustice is justice in disciplining the transgressor

66. The white swords' blades from the past of his resolves
When unsheathed are clad in the redness of slaughter

67. He divides the white and the black fine coats between them
So for the chests the white coats and for the turbans the black

68. While his heart for piety and remembrance divided
And his palm, the dew, the sword and the pen

69. Deeds whose tails fell short of reaching so fancies sprouted
Of every eloquent, articulate, comprehending orator

70. A forbearance by which mountains are humbled
Composed, ardent that nourishes reason

71. If he wished to make the world for its inhabitants
An eternal abode, it would be saved from ruin by oblivion

72. For his day is infinite time itself and he is all creation
Rather he was the cause of existence's creation in antiquity

73. May Allah, Lord of the Throne send blessings upon him whenever
Verses of his virtues were recited in Noon and the Pen

74. And upon his family, the strangers, the companions of the gown and whoever
Made the Prophet's family their enemies, by them

75. After him they are the best of Allah's creations, ennobled
Above all others before the Tablet and Pen's creation

76. They are fierce lions, the most noble lions known
The ever-victorious, filled with their downpours

77. Armored with blades in every battlefield
Where arguments and the place of white blades and turbans

78. With goodly abodes that when they shone reflected
The abodes' splendor with radiant, smiling faces

79. So the flowers shine and the blooms scent
Their fragrance and brilliance thus buds split and sniffed

80. They excelled so the horizons folded in their mention
Spreading it until musk's honour vanished among nations

81. What cooled drink is impaired for the thirsty?
Sweeter and cooler than repeating their mention

82. Kings of perfection the rule of their knowledge is
Justice and their guidance's illumination shone knowledge

83. Chivalrous they were known for chivalry and marked with
Merit and honor fulfilling their pride

84. No flaw in them but piety and that they
Are swords polished by their Lord

85. How they clarified our laws and bestowed favors
And dispelled anguish from us by their good tidings

86. I have stated while the best words are truest
The tongue of truth Ali regarding them

87. For in Ali, Commander of the Faithful is wisdom of thought
And in his glory many a verse arranged

88. His aide, brother, superior to them and father
Of his two grandsons, pride distinguishes him especially

89. Partner of Taha if not for his prophecy
And in the imamate a virtue with no associates

90. He never wearied supporting the Prophet's law with
Forearms and eloquent tongue and mouth

91. Radiant, strong, stalwart, helper
Judicious, just, steadfast, protected

92. His sword a torrent cleansing the dregs
Making it a meadow none but fate's drinking cups sampled

93. Trust returned in his good and pure water never
Betrayed by mirage which came to the thirsty

94. By the imam al-Hamam al-Murtada I placed
My hands so my hands shone and worries receded

95. And his elite companions who revived his
Law with revival, growth shot up from the plentiful rain

96. Prey they hunted flourished with goodness for their branch
Their branch translates purity from the goodness of their origin

97. Swords pass through their hands when destinies rage
In fights, the eagles and vultures' necks are refuge

98. They are the warriors, if one day they are wronged
Their swords in the heads of enemies will reconcile

99. With every glittering Indian sword for every
Ambitious with every pile of corpses

100. They do not disappoint the violator of good in his appointment
And perhaps they miss the appointment with vengeance

101. O good land the heavens poured upon you Ali
So thank the blesser and seize the opportunity

102. He carried your soil, musk at its essence
Perfectly innovated by the hand of favours and wisdom

103. An orchard the Trustworthy Spirit overlooks
Above the leafstalks when called from the servants

104. You are like Paradise the singular, characterized
By eternal gardens and the blessings within them

105. Can the soul attain its comforts a second time
By visiting so companionship returns to the sanctuary?

106. My master I have needs I intended with them
While you are the most generous relied upon and obliged

107. If access to kindness is through its means
To the generous then the successful attains his wish

108. Since you became the intercessor for mankind
The banner of your praise became unfurled over nations

109. My sins overwhelmed me so I faced them
With an army of worries in crowds within my core

110. The soul is like wool purifying its impurities
The fire of worries so it climbs to lofty ambitions

111. I made your praise provision and refuge for me
So accept my praise, O my provision and my refuge

112. The Most High has granted life and worries receded
The local rose and my words ascended

113. And man's value is in what good he performs
And in your praise what my value climbs to

114. Sometimes words grace the hearing by their essence
And sometimes words shock the hearing into deafness

115. Muhammad you made thinking of you virtuous
O essence of kindness, benevolence and generosity

116. Fulfill my hopes and intercede for me for I held
Onto a rope of hope that will not sever