1. Your malady was once a plague upon the Law
But now your healing is the Law’s panacea

2. The hand of God has lifted both your ills away
And left our foes distraught without ideas

3. With health He’s wiped the traces of disease from you
And cleared the face veiled by the envier’s smear

4. The eye of guidance smiled while the eye of envy
Complained with bloodshot rage and vitriol seared

5. Glad tidings to the wilderness the herald shouts
Of your regained health, O exalted seer!

6. Rejoice together now in bliss as you rejoiced
In thanks and bounties from the Healer here

7. Let the party of true guidance joy for its sheikh
And let us revel in his blessings year on year

8. The dwellers of the heavens looked to him with hope
And were delighted when next morn appeared

9. They gathered round as if their God had lifted off
All illness and affliction from his bier

10. To give congratulations to Ja’far since he
Deserves all love and brotherhood and cheer

11. Can water differ if you apportion it?
No more can I say one thing and another here

12. He is the Ja’far of superlative grace sought by
True Law’s adherents for guidance and for revere

13. When dead wood is enlivened, he makes eloquent
The very rocks that cannot see or hear

14. The name of him perfumed good deeds with a fragrance
Enveloping the horizons far and near

15. And his call invited you, as Muhammad prayed
To illuminate the gloomy darkness drear

16. O father of the Law! You are its patron who
Though fathers forget, tends its children dear

17. We all relied on you, but while we were its pupils
For it you were the shining lamp and seer

18. You were prepared to keep our precincts safe although
No mighty warrior or hotheads were near

19. What harm while you bear our standard aloft
If we brandish no weapons for foes to fear?

20. Your tongue’s the sword that took true guidance’ enemy
By napes that erred, all it wanted here

21. When you wrote with your hand, its lines would dress
The enemy’s chest in a ruddy smear

22. You raced ahead to the highest ranks, outstripping
All racers, leaving them behind in arrears

23. Forgive fate’s sins, for it has helped me and I’ve
Forgot griefs for its gifts throughout the years

24. Joy followed joy when it restored you to me
And doubled blessings banished all my tears

25. With the recovery of the elect Imam
And a wedding of refined, bright intellect

26. That astounded all with its insight and brilliance
I was exultant though I could not be there

27. When I missed that joy it was no matter for
It did enrapture every poet’s intellect

28. With Abdullah’s wedding our age was beautified
And in every moment its brilliance grew rare

29. Whene’er I come it is a time of glory
Lit up by fortunes making darkness spare

30. So proclaim and record it to congratulate
The exalted in a gift Sana’a can’t compare

31. Give good tidings! His wedding’s for one whose lofty
Father surpassed even al-Jawza’s flair

32. He is a branch of glory with inclinations that
Promised it will bear most excellent fruit rare

33. If the one who versified his wedding versified
The stars too, their brilliance would multiply there

34. The world was intoxicated but only tasted
The exemplary morals of his forbears

35. Describe him and his brothers for each one
Has attained in glory esteem beyond compare

36. Give life to their father, Baqir, fount of knowledge
Who brought the Law’s adherents back to life from their biers

37. Matching his pride, all of them, and all are children
Of the greatest mother, equally filled with flair

38. For his grandsire glad tidings! And who but his grandsire
Seeks nothing but discerning talent rich and rare?

39. Let his uncle who attained such excellence
That his supreme traits cannot be reckoned, share in joy for him

40. O you! When the perspectives of all minds incline to you
You decide the perspectives with your powerful flair

41. Endure for the Law so you endure for us, for God
Has made your existence its enduring welfare