1. O Saad if only I were a blessed man
My patience in yearning would not be lost

2. I would stay up watching the stars as if
Seeking the beloved's promises on the horizon

3. I count the days of estrangement over and over
Until I'm weary of grief and counting

4. Tell the one who possessed my heart completely
So he became shackled by his love

5. Why not show mercy to your captive with a meeting
So he may find eternity in the abode of reunion

6. Your sweet lips from which pours clear water, so why
Has it not been offered to the thirsty as a gift?

7. You made him your captive and veiled yourself from him
So for him, though brought near, to be cast away!

8. I passionately love the one I swore I would never
Blame or reject for his love

9. He possessed my heart and led it to demise
So I saw myself as driver and martyr

10. He shows me no kindness and I want no substitute
I only affirm my passion again and again

11. When he appears, my heart melts like ice
And the sun continues to melt the frost

12. And when you look upon the cheeks you find them
Lethal in charm, yet you call them black

13. The glances are called a sword, for they have become
Indeed like the sharpest blade

14. O heart, be not stingy with sighs
And o eyes, be generous with your tears of sorrow

15. My fellow sufferer of passion, I have found
And lost my patience when I found a rival

16. Return, my friend, so you both may see him
Wasted away from the famine of estrangement

17. How long shall I show loyalty to the betrayer
And how long connect the estranged beloved?

18. Far from it! My heart will not be silent of love
Nor will I make it whole again from misguidance

19. I blame those who love the one who spurns them
And I praise the Prophet with eulogies

20. Proclaim the praises of Mustafa loudly
Annoy the envious heart and fear no rejection

21. Seek him, ask through him, you will be given wishes
And live, as long as you live, happily through him

22. The best of people, whoever seeks his protection
Will inevitably become blessed

23. The chosen one, the guide whom his path
Attained perfection and paved the way

24. He was brought near with the night journey when
The enemy returned, distanced

25. He ascended to the heavens so they were seen
As ground below him as he rose sublimely

26. And Gabriel took a station below him
As the beloved came adorned

27. In truth, God sent him as a messenger to mankind
So he became guided by what he says

28. And turned the slaves away from misguidance, for their guidance
Except the wretched, defiant disbeliever

29. How many associating elders went astray
And became followers of the devil's misguidance

30. Wrongfully extending to him a partnership so he became
In turn, cast out by his idol

31. And how many youths were guided to righteousness
Hoping for his promise and fearing his warning

32. The believers in him will attain refuge
When Hellfire is stoked with the tyrants for fuel

33. They will drink when thirsty at the Basin
To quench thirst - what a gift!

34. He is the intercessor for sinners when
Sweat pours forth and a vein constricts

35. He will come to the Footstool, bowing down, asking
God for us - excellent bowing!

36. With praises God will open for him
That He did not give any creation such praise

37. And say, "Speak, you will be heard, ask, you will be granted
Intercede, you will intercede, and be given promises"

38. There he will intercede for people in a station
Where eyes will not look around restlessly

39. In that station Muhammad will be privileged
And the messengers will be present as witnesses

40. Then is the intercession for the disobedient, for he
Will not fear rejection there

41. The prophets spoke praise of his lofty station
And Ahmad's station remains ever-praised

42. O master of messengers who surpassed all creation
With majesty, transcending entirely existence!

43. This is the supplication of a sinful servant
Clinging to your patronage since he was a child

44. Seeking through you honorable life and being sent after death
To bliss as a martyr

45. May God send blessings and peace upon you, He who
Revived faith and monotheism through you

46. And upon your family, for as long as the breeze blows
Through the buds of gardens with clustered flowers

47. And upon your companions who attained heights
Of guidance, nobility, and high-minded fathers

48. From a group who were leaders of the world
Surpassing all of mankind, masters and lords

49. When generous, they were oceans, and when stern
They were lions or warriors on the hunt

50. Their eulogizers were not burdened by their merits
Therefore they constantly sang praises

51. And upon the Followers who emulated beautifully
And those who preserved the Law, bearing witness

52. Of every scholar who followed the guiding ways
And turned away from the paths of the praised guides

53. Like Bukhari, then Muslim, who followed him
And atop them, Abu Dawud

54. He surpassed the great books by compiling
Rulings wherein he exerted great effort

55. He would bring and articulate the strongest
Narrations in his field precisely

56. May God reward him for us better than He rewarded
Those who invalidated doubters in religion

57. Then blessings upon the Prophet and his family
Forever until the Day of Recompense without end