1. وميض برق بربي ذي سلم

    أضاء أم ثغر الحبيب ابتسم

    A flash of lightning on the hills of Dhu Salam—

    did it shine, or did the beloved's mouth smile?

  2. وما أومض البارق من ثغره

    الا استهلت من جفوني الديم

    And no lightning flashed from his mouth

    without steady rains pouring from my eyelids,

  3. تنثر درّ الدمع شوقاً إلى

    در بهاتيك الثنايا انتظم

    scattering pearls of tears in longing for

    pearls strung among those front teeth.

  4. يا من لصب ملكت قلبه

    آرام حزوى وظباء العلم

    O, who will help a lovesick man whose heart was captured

    by the white gazelles of Hazwa and the gazelles of al-'Alam?

  5. من كل هيفاء هضيم الحشا

    رود الصبا طيبة الملتثم

    Each a slender-waisted beauty, slight of belly,

    tender in youth, sweet to kiss.

  6. غيداء في وجنتها جمرة

    يذكو باحشائي منها ضرم

    A lissome beauty with an ember in her cheek;

    from it a fire blazes in my innermost depths.

  7. في طرفها الساجي سقامي وفي

    رضابها العذب شفاء السقم

    In her languid gaze lies my sickness, and in

    her sweet saliva lies the cure for sickness.

  8. يميلها سكر الصبا مثلما

    مالت باعطاف الغصون النسم

    The intoxication of youth makes her sway, just as

    the breezes swayed the curving limbs of branches.

  9. يا طالبا عدل ظلوم الهوى

    كيف وهذا خصرها مهتضم

    O you who seek justice from one cruel in love,

    how could that be, when her very waist is oppressed?

  10. عندي من ذكري عهود الهوى

    صبابة تمزج دمعي بدم

    From remembering the days of love, I bear

    a longing that mingles my tears with blood.

  11. ولي باقبال جواد العلا

    مسرة يجلى بها كل هم

    And at the coming of exalted Jawad, I find

    a joy by which every care is dispelled.

  12. رنحت الأعواد اعطافها

    بشرا بعود الالمعي العلم

    The wooden pulpits set their sides swaying

    in joy at the return of the brilliant luminary,

  13. خطيبها المصقع ذاك الذي

    قد فاق قسّاً بفصيح الكلم

    their eloquent preacher, the one who

    has surpassed Quss in eloquent speech.

  14. ندب سنى العزم ادى إلى

    خالقه الفرض فحج الحرم

    A noble man, lofty in resolve, he rendered to

    his Creator his duty, and made pilgrimage to the Sanctuary.

  15. جوهرة غراء مفقودة

    زادت علا بالحجر المستلم

    A radiant jewel that had been missed,

    whose eminence grew through the Stone he touched.

  16. تهللت في عرفات له

    عوارف الغيث إذا ما أنسجم

    At Arafat, there smiled upon him

    the bounties of rain when it poured down.

  17. وفيه قد نالت مناها منى

    واستشعر المشعر منهالعظم

    And in him Mina attained its wish,

    and the Mash'ar sensed grandeur from him.

  18. وشام من طيبة نور الهدى

    ضياؤه يفري اديم الظلم

    And he beheld the light of guidance from Tayba;

    its radiance rends the hide of darkness.

  19. ماذا على من شم ذاك الثرى

    ان يهجر المسك فما ان يشم

    What harm is there for one who has smelled that soil

    in forsaking musk and never smelling it again?

  20. ضريح قدس ضمنت أرضه

    علة إيجاد الورى من عدم

    A holy tomb whose earth enfolds

    the cause of humankind's creation from nothing:

  21. المصطفى الهادي وابناؤه

    مصابح الرشد بحور الكرم

    the Chosen One, the guide, and his sons—

    lamps of right guidance, oceans of generosity.

  22. يا مقبلا سر باقباله

    فخض قوما بالتهاني وعم

    O you whose coming brought joy,

    so move among people with congratulations, and include all.

  23. فكل أهل الطف من بهجة

    اضحوا لساناً بالتهاني وفم

    For all the people of al-Taff, in their joy,

    have become one tongue and mouth voicing congratulations.

  24. غبت وقد كنت ربيعاً لهم

    واليوم قد عاد ربيع النعم

    You went away, though you had been their spring;

    and today the spring of blessings has returned.

  25. فابق رغيد العيش في نعمة

    ما غازلت زهر الرياض النسم

    So live on at ease, amid blessing,

    as long as breezes woo the gardens' flowers.