الحمد للَّه يا أبا حسنِ

الحمد للَّه يا أبا حسنِ

ذي النِّعَم السابغات والمِننِ

ذي النِّعَم السابغات والمِننِ

Praise be to God, O Abu Hasan,

Praise be to Allah, O Abu Hasan

Possessor of abundant blessings and favors.

Of abundant blessings and favors

أقطعتني مرتع الهُزال وأق

أقطعتني مرتع الهُزال وأق

طعتَ أناساً مراتع السِّمن

طعتَ أناساً مراتع السِّمن

You allotted me a pasture of leanness, and

You have denied me the meadows of leanness and denied

allotted others pastures of fatness.

People the meadows of fatness

عرَّضْتَ حمديك أن يقالَ له

عرَّضْتَ حمديك أن يقالَ له

ضلَّ ضلالَ البكاء في الدمن

ضلَّ ضلالَ البكاء في الدمن

You have laid repeated praise of you open to this judgment:

You presented my praise to be said about him

“It has gone astray, like weeping amid abandoned campsites.”

He went astray, straying the straying of weeping in abasement

ناشدتُكَ اللَّه يا أبا حسن

ناشدتُكَ اللَّه يا أبا حسن

في حرمة لم تُذَل ولم تهُن

في حرمة لم تُذَل ولم تهُن

I adjure you by God, O Abu Hasan,

I beseeched you, O Abu Hasan

regarding a sacred bond never abased or dishonored:

In sanctity that was not disgraced or dishonored

لا ينصرفْ عنك من يَمُتُّ بها

لا ينصرفْ عنك من يَمُتُّ بها

وحظُّه حظ عابدِ الوثن

وحظُّه حظ عابدِ الوثن

Let no one connected by it depart from you

He who clings to it does not turn away from you

with his lot that of an idol-worshipper.

And his fortune is the fortune of the worshipper of idols

يشكوك لا مُظهِراً شكايته

يشكوك لا مُظهِراً شكايته

إياك لكن شكايةَ الزمن

إياك لكن شكايةَ الزمن

He complains of you, not openly voicing his complaint

Complaining to you not displaying his complaint

against you, but rather a complaint against time.

To you but the complaint of time

ومن شكا دهرَه شكاك وهل

ومن شكا دهرَه شكاك وهل

تكنى عن الروح خارج البدن

تكنى عن الروح خارج البدن

Whoever complains of his time complains of you—and can you

And whoever complained of his time complained of you, and does

allude to the soul apart from the body?

The soul suffice apart from the body?

أنت الذي صُرِّف الزمان به

أنت الذي صُرِّف الزمان به

فأنت إن ذُمَّ وهو في قَرن

فأنت إن ذُمَّ وهو في قَرن

You are the one through whom time is directed;

You are the one who time was disposed by

so, if it is blamed, you and it are bound by one tether.

So you, if blamed while in an eon