1. O friend of the crown, necklace, and mole
Who has made speechless with a mole on his cheek, and whose temple is adorned with a mole

2. Either you have created the morning as a measure
By making apparent the forms, wherever forms divide

3. Or gather on your cheek's horizon a sun
Or make your mouth's chalice to brim with honey

4. If you adorned gardens and your two cheeks with a mole
Like Scorpio in its sting, resolute

5. Or created in the mouth a flowing pearl
And pearls in our time are not to be chained

6. Or strung my eyebrows’ bow with magic
Or over my arrow placed your eyelashes to slay

7. Or unleashed your charm as a sword from the eyelids
Or moved for war from the hair a spear

8. Or made for your charm the breast’s prominence a spearhead
Or stood for stabbing the thigh’s spear once it leaned

9. I would sacrifice for you a passion whose heart is like an oryx
Enticing with the coquetry of a gazelle and boldness of cubs

10. The shine of morning radiance on the chest of your form
Slender waist, affectionate manner, playful bosom, lazy gait

11. O you who pleases a loved one and whose crescent forehead
Makes perfect your straight stature and robes of perfection

12. You whom God made before any existence
Of light of beauty and rays of majesty

13. You who were and Adam and dust were not
You who became when between water and clay

14. Who on the Day of Gathering beneath your banner
Shall convene sheikh and father, prophets and messengers

15. Whom Adam took as intercessor and was pardoned
Whom you clothed Sheeth in the cloak of grace

16. Idris exalted by your majesty ascended
Enveloped in dignity and adorned with perfection

17. Through whom Noah attained safety on the ship
Whom you favored Saleh by righteous deeds

18. Through whom Hud became mighty among the tribes of Aad
Through whom Lot battled the abhorrent hordes

19. Who made for Abraham the cursed fire
Coolness and peace, and multiplied his graces

20. Who ordained the slaughter’s sacrifice for the immolated ram
Who made Ishmael chosen in the wilderness

21. Who returned Joseph to Jacob through prayer
He guaranteed his name, so it was answered swiftly

22. Who singled out Joseph in the well with beauty
Without him, events would not be in truth occur

23. Who bestowed on the Israelite tribes through his guidance blessings
The abundant good derived from them are branches

24. Who graced Shuaib thereby wit and pride
When he empowered Moses for the Madian girl

25. Who aided Moses to battle the Jews, leaving
Their faces like monkeys and their forms like swine

26. Who clarified for Aaron the traits of the Scripture
Stopping the sun at zenith for Joshua's blades

27. Who prepared for Alexander, whom knowledge made lofty
Who favored the King of Nations thereby with power

28. Who honored Luqman when He gave him in secret life
Who rescued Job from the severing of limbs

29. Who made Elias soar through the heavens in flight
Unreachable by any aspirant no matter how long

30. Who stopped in the sky David’s birds mid-flight
When he subjugated jinn and made mountains obey

31. Whom Solomon took as refuge so he ascended
By the Meem and Hah and then Meem and Daal

32. Whom gladened the intimate, the trustee, and John
In family, livestock, womenfolk, and spoils

33. Whom the companion of the fish found as rays of light
Saving him from trials and choosing him as messenger

34. Through whom Zakaria gained contentment and acceptance
When the vile ones crucified him from below

35. Whom Jesus used to cure all sickness and revive
The dead and enrich without plea by his words

36. Whom heralded Sheba by his mission and Saba by scripture
Whom the soothsayer of Okaz confirmed truthful by his sayings

37. Whom the jinn and voices reported about
And beasts and idols and seers told of his circumstances

38. Who honored his conception, birth, nursing
Empowered by bone, puberty, and sending

39. Whom the mother saw when he descended at noon
The horizon shook, mountains and dunes

40. Whom she was given joy and abundant bliss
When she delivered him, excellent in circumstance

41. For whom Sawa’s water diminished and ebbed
The palace and Persian fires showed no flames

42. Who was nursed from Halima’s breast, thereupon
Refusing to nurse except whom conditions made worthy

43. Whom Gabriel purified at heart and filled
With knowledge, discharging the heedless of neglect

44. Whom clouds shaded from hot winds’ fury
Whom rain obeyed wherever directed to unleash

45. To whom the elephants attested in the Yemen,
Saying this is the Messenger of the eminent emissaries

46. To whom vegetation and objects spoke clearly
To whom the deer and camel fled burden

47. To whom the wolf and fawn spoke truthfully
Warned by the wolf and gazelle with signs

48. Who halted the sun, not for Quraysh’s sake
At time of setting, returning it for Ali the lofty

49. For whom the moon split in the sky gloriously
To whom the tree trunk leaned wherever leaned

50. For whom the stone slab softened when he walked in dignity
For whom the sand empowered to show his image

51. Whom the cave and doves and ants protected
Manifesting without doubt light in effigy and forms

52. To whom the she-camel came willingly hearing and obedient
And turned back bleating to the place given

53. For whom the salty food and meat gave praise
Who made water stream from fingers unchained

54. Who made the coercion hear his words while smiling:
"Do not eat my flesh, for my poison is lethal"

55. Whom a touch of the sheep's ear satisfied thirst
Who satiated a thousand from one measure, still remaining

56. Who trod by sandal the precinct of the holy presence
And was graced with the crown of intimidation and cloak of perfection

57. Whom God elevated wherever He decreed
Beyond the realm of imagination, however far-ranging

58. Whom God lodged above every other station
For Gabriel ascended beyond it to the Lote Tree of the Limit

59. Drawn near by revelation, when nearing in prostration
In the presence of intimacy, without likeness or image

60. Achieving pride of eyewitnessing and speech
And nearness from the Bounteous One and grace

61. Who commanded angels in heaven collectively
Who led people on earth in ranks for prayer

62. Whom He sent with truth to creation openly
Whom He singled out in truth when departing and when halting

63. Remaining when his eyelashes closed in sleep
Watchful, while the angel took account

64. Who made the two horizons place of prostration and pure
Intending to pray in them and make spoils permitted

65. Who stood in worship until legs became swollen
Who struggled against the soul and battled misguidance

66. Who bound stones to his stomach when hunger
Afflicted him in migration with heavy burdens

67. Who was given generosity, honor, and wealth
When given forbearance, nobility, and heights

68. Who was most complete in fulfilling commands humbly
Most beautiful in cautioning through deterrents wisely

69. O best of messengers and most perfect of prophets
Most obedient servant who calls to the Sublime

70. O best of friends and greatest of speakers
Best beloved who saw and best youth who spoke

71. O noblest caller who came with the noblest words
In the noblest time called to the noblest deeds

72. How great the name you revived with pride
How beautiful the deeds whose nature you clarified

73. How fragrant when the musk of your generosity diffused
How precise when the rain of your kindness poured

74. How beautiful your essence and most perfect your splendor
How excellent your words and most wonderful your deeds

75. How wondrous when you were the light of existence
How strange if you were from whom came dust

76. Devised from mankind perfect manifestations
Like a pearl atop splendor, winning highest rank

77. Revered with majesty, nurtured to perfection
To highest summit drawn, trailing robes

78. Clarifying meanings most splendid, dispelling forms’ darkness
Brought near in nearness, addressing with humility

79. Returned you with kindness, clothing you in grace
Made pure and holy, above the words of misguidance

80. Shook mountains of calamities, greatest earthquake
Trod by sandal the throne of majesty

81. O treasure of Abu Bakr, the true successor
O might of Abu Hafs, dispeller of misguidance

82. O pride of Abu Umar, the near kinsman by marriage
O glory of Ali, the esteemed youth

83. O joy of the pleased Ridha and safety attained
O loftiness of Sa’d, felicitous in circumstance

84. O delight of the eye of the valiant Talhah when
Called: fear not, the mounting of steeds

85. O happiness of the heart of the youth al-Zubair and the one
Whom he saved without doubt from terrors’ affliction

86. O tidings for the son of Uthman the precious, melody
O success of Abu Ubaydah’s raids when he marched

87. O aid of the Companions, O strife of the devout
O pillar of followers, essence of deeds

88. Without you the universe would have no ideal
Without you the worlds would have no form

89. Without you darkness would have no morning glow
Without you rays would have no shining

90. Without you lightning would have no luster
Without you clouds would have no rain

91. Without you stars would have no light
Without you crescents would have no newness

92. Without you there’d be no night and day
Without you no dawns and evenings

93. Without you birds would not soar in the horizon
Without you cubs would not roam wilderness

94. Without you sky would not be adorned by stars
Without you plain would not unfurl mountains

95. Without you seas would have no splendor
Without you wave would have no rippling

96. Without you spring would have no blossoms
Without you Shawwal would have no prestige

97. Without you there’d be no Garden or Fire
Without you no Scrolls and no Reckoning

98. Without you there’d be no Plain of Gathering and Account
Without you no salvation or perdition

99. Without you some would not say of witnessing
Guiding the lost, excellent deeds

100. Without you prayer in maturity would not be decreed
Fasting until night, alms from wealth

101. Without you steeds would not race as pilgrims
Without you cameleers would not journey virtuously

102. Without you saddles would not sway in yearning
Without you howdahs would not sway in procession

103. Without you there would be no Kaaba or Station
Without you no pausing at Mash’ar or Mina

104. Without you there would be no Zamzam or Hateem
Without you no passes or ruins

105. Without you there would be no Taibah or Baqee
Without you no Ascent or Saee performed

106. Without you Yanbu’s spring would not flow
Without you Bat-ha would not grow dense with vegetation

107. How felicitous the foot that strode to you
Complaining anxiety, to return laden with grace

108. How excellent Hassan praising, how sweet
His beauties speaking of you

109. O most generous to whom is dedicated praise and reward
Bounty from hands encompassing first and last

110. What else for Ibn Khafaf besides praising you as haven
O refuge for one fearing fetters to be imposed

111. It is unthinkable, after seeing you in a vision
That I would be deprived of fortune’s robes in waking

112. Or I would find death agony, my tongue
Moist with praising the order occupying thoughts

113. Or I would find the grave a pit of punishment
Unless you protected me, given my praising horrors

114. It suffices me as honor that praising you has been my preoccupation
Night and day, while moving about and while traveling

115. So bestow acceptance, for you are the most noble in judgment
And favor me with gift, for you are most gracious in obligation

116. Of light, swift Kamil meter, equal in rhyme
Its structure woven delicate coquetry

117. Adorned by softness of speech in most excellent arrangement
In Jumada composing it night after night

118. Passing by the beauties of words, gathering speech nectar
Of the year eight hundred after seventy years

119. Preceding it four, by which lines formed
By God and God is the oath, true and solemn

120. By the leaves and tablets and psalms and Torah
And Gospel and Book and sending of messengers

121. If being's waters entirely became ink
The earth, spheres, and clouds scrolls

122. Branches pens, and collectively creation
Writers recording fully

123. The tenth would not be contained, nor ounce transcribed
Of some traits of the beloved, goal of hopes

124. Whom God lauded in the Book with praise
Beyond description by verse however prolonged

125. Whom God purified, beyond encompassing by trait
Whom God made great, beyond compare

126. Can vegetation and dust be limited afterward?
Can droplets and clouds be measured by scale?

127. Can battles contain
Can earth and heaven be weighed precisely?

128. Tremendous is the matter, how not for its circle
The Mighty Orbit encompassing forms

129. O of Majestic Dominion and Highest Kingdom
Enoble that it be asked: where and what is the state?

130. O He who created earth and heaven and gave insight
To breaths and quenched thirst and guided the lost

131. None other do I hope for, none other do I fear
None other do I call upon, none for me suffices

132. So accept praise I have composed for your beloved and favor
With pardon, beneficence, acceptance, and welcome

133. And bless my parents with bliss
And benefit my elders and Muslims through gifts

134. And single out for special prayer and mercy and peace
The Jurist Imam’s grave, prepared for horrors

135. And caress in pleasure Jadd during prostration’s bowing
For kinsfolk, followers, and family

136. Never has a lover said, when shunned by the beloved:
O chain of sands, roamed by imagination

137. Or circumambulated daybreak, singing:
O friend of crown, necklace, and mole

138. O friend of the crown, necklace, and mole
Who has made speechless with a mole on his cheek, and whose temple is adorned with a mole

139. Either you have created the morning as a measure
By making apparent the forms, wherever forms divide

140. Or gather on your cheek's horizon a sun
Or make your mouth's chalice to brim with honey

141. If you adorned gardens and your two cheeks with a mole
Like Scorpio in its sting, resolute

142. Or created in the mouth a flowing pearl
And pearls in our time are not to be chained

143. Or strung my eyebrows’ bow with magic
Or over my arrow placed your eyelashes to slay

144. Or unleashed your charm as a sword from the eyelids
Or moved for war from the hair a spear

145. Or made for your charm the breast’s prominence a spearhead
Or stood for stabbing the thigh’s spear once it leaned

146. I would sacrifice for you a passion whose heart is like an oryx
Enticing with the coquetry of a gazelle and boldness of cubs

147. The shine of morning radiance on the chest of your form
Slender waist, affectionate manner, playful bosom, lazy gait

148. O you who pleases a loved one and whose crescent forehead
Makes perfect your straight stature and robes of perfection

149. You whom God made before any existence
Of light of beauty and rays of majesty

150. You who were and Adam and dust were not
You who became when between water and clay

151. Who on the Day of Gathering beneath your banner
Shall convene sheikh and father, prophets and messengers

152. Whom Adam took as intercessor and was pardoned
Whom you clothed Sheeth in the cloak of grace

153. Idris exalted by your majesty ascended
Enveloped in dignity and adorned with perfection

154. Through whom Noah attained safety on the ship
Whom you favored Saleh by righteous deeds

155. Through whom Hud became mighty among the tribes of Aad
Through whom Lot battled the abhorrent hordes

156. Who made for Abraham the cursed fire
Coolness and peace, and multiplied his graces

157. Who ordained the slaughter’s sacrifice for the immolated ram
Who made Ishmael chosen in the wilderness

158. Who returned Joseph to Jacob through prayer
He guaranteed his name, so it was answered swiftly

159. Who singled out Joseph in the well with beauty
Without him, events would not be in truth occur

160. Who bestowed on the Israelite tribes through his guidance blessings
The abundant good derived from them are branches

161. Who graced Shuaib thereby wit and pride
When he empowered Moses for the Madian girl

162. Who aided Moses to battle the Jews, leaving
Their faces like monkeys and their forms like swine

163. Who clarified for Aaron the traits of the Scripture
Stopping the sun at zenith for Joshua's blades

164. Who prepared for Alexander, whom knowledge made lofty
Who favored the King of Nations thereby with power

165. Who honored Luqman when He gave him in secret life
Who rescued Job from the severing of limbs

166. Who made Elias soar