عليك دهراً سلام الله يا عمر

ففيك لا زال دين الله يفتخر

Upon you forever be God's peace, O Umar.

For God's religion never ceases to take pride in you.

وطدت للشرع عزالا يزول وقد

ارضيت ربك والاعمال تدخر

You firmly established unfading glory for sacred law, and indeed

you pleased your Lord, while deeds are stored up.

اعلنت للدين سلطانا فطاب به

قلب النبي وسر البيت والحجر

You proclaimed the faith's dominion, thereby gladdening

the Prophet's heart; the House and the Stone rejoiced.

اياتك البيض لاتحصى مفاخرها

غصت بها كتب الاسلام والسير

Your radiant signs have glories beyond counting;

the books of Islam and biographies brim with them.

وقمت في دولة المختار معجزة

له ود ان لهذا الجن والبشر

And in the Chosen One's reign you stood as a miracle

for him; and to this the jinn and humankind submitted.

فتحت اقطار ملك الله فابتهجت

بالدين والخبر يبدى سره الخبر

You conquered the regions of God's dominion, and they rejoiced

in the faith; the report reveals experience's secret.

وليس يجحد ما شيدت من شرف

للمسلمين وهذا العين والاثر

And no one denies the honor you built

for the Muslims—here are the visible reality and its traces.

وكم اقمت لهذا الدين مفخرة

ينحط عن عزها في برجه القمر

And how many glories you established for this faith—

the moon in its mansion falls beneath their grandeur!

لو كان بعدي نبي في الحديث اتى

بشأن عزك ارغاما لمن كفروا

“Had there been a prophet after me”—thus came the tradition

concerning your honor, to humble those who disbelieved.

سر النبوة مطبوع بذاتك من

سر النبي وطينا كانت الصور

The mystery of prophethood is imprinted in your being from

the Prophet's mystery, while the forms were still clay.

ما صاغ مدحك يا مولاي ذو ادب

الا تنظم في الفاظه الدرر

No man of letters fashioned your praise, O my master,

without pearls being strung within his words.

وانت شيخ حباه الله مرتبة

قعساء قد قصرت عن طولها الفكر

And you are an elder whom God granted a rank

so unassailable that thoughts fall short of its height.

عالي الجناب امير المؤمنين ابو

حفص كريم الخصال الاورع الخطر

Exalted in dignity, Commander of the Faithful, Abu

Hafs, noble in character, supremely devout and eminent.

تبعت احمد في منهاج سنته

ما زاغ منك بذاك المنهج البصر

You followed Ahmad along the path of his Sunna;

your gaze never strayed along that path.

ومذ سرى لا الى ما رمت سارية

هدته منك الى ما رمته النذر

And when Sariyah traveled by night, not toward what you sought,

warnings from you guided him toward what you sought.

والنيل خاطبته فانجر ممتثلا

يجري وامضى الذي امضيته القدر

And you addressed the Nile, and it moved onward obediently,

flowing; destiny carried out what you decreed.

مآثر لك في الاكوان باهرة

في جبهة الدين من لألأها غرر

Dazzling are your glorious deeds throughout the worlds;

on faith's brow their radiance forms white blazes.

يا دعوة المصطفى للدين كنت كما

اراد عزا به الاحكام تزدهر

O answer to the Chosen One's prayer for the faith, you were, as

he wished, a strength through which the laws flourish.

برزت والناس اشتاتا فكنت لهم

ابا رؤفاً بهم يعفو ويقتدر

You emerged while the people were scattered, and became to them

a compassionate father, forgiving and wielding power.

فرحمة تجعل الاطفال في مرح

وبأس عدل لديه يرجف الحجر

Thus, a mercy that fills children with merriment,

and a just might before which stone trembles.

ثاني الوزير بن والقرم المهاب ومن

من ازره قام عن دين الهدى وزر

Second of the two ministers [probable reading], the awe-inspiring chieftain, and one

through whose support a burden was lifted from the faith of guidance.

حجت اليك الاماني وهي مبصرة

حال النبي وفي مغناك تعتمر

Hopes made pilgrimage to you, beholding

the Prophet's state, and making the lesser pilgrimage in your abode.

لو نبأ الله بعد المصطفى احدا

لكنت انت وفي هذا اتى الخبر

Had God made anyone a prophet after the Chosen One,

it would have been you; a report came to this effect.

اتجحد العين منك النور منبلجا

الا اذا غاض من ناسوتها النظر

Can the eye deny the light shining forth from you,

unless sight has ebbed from its mortal nature?

مولاي غوثا لعبد كله وله

اليك والقلب بالاشواق يستعر

My master, help a servant whose whole being is yearning

for you, and whose heart blazes with longing.

رمى ببابك اثقالا يكابدها

من دهره والليالي كلها غير

He cast at your door the burdens he struggles to bear

from his lifetime, and the nights are all reversals of fortune.

يا ايها الابيض البر الكريم اغث

اعن تكرم ففيك الكسر ينجبر

O fair one, righteous and generous, give aid!

Help, be generous: through you the fracture is mended.

اني عبيدك صل حبلي بمرحمة

تجلى ومنها فوأد الخصم ينفطر

I am your humble servant; bind my cord with a mercy

that is revealed, and from which the adversary's heart is rent.

وانظر حنانا لاحوالي فقد عثرت

عزيمتي وعلى عزمي سطا الكدر

And look compassionately upon my condition, for it has stumbled—

my resolve—and gloom has assailed my determination.

ولي بجاهك آمال موطدة

وحسن ظن بماء الخير ينفجر

Through your standing I have firmly established hopes,

and hopeful trust that gushes with the water of goodness.

غوثاه يا ايها الفاروق خذ بيدي

فالذنب اسكت نطقي كيف اعتذر

Help! O Faruq, take me by the hand,

for sin has silenced my speech: how can I excuse myself?

ما لي سوى نفحة المختار تعطفها

نحوي بجاهك على الذنب يغتفر

I have nothing but a breath of the Chosen One, which you turn

toward me through your standing—may the sin be forgiven [probable reading].

اجزل ضجيع رسول الله جائزتي

عليك دهرا سلام الله يا عمر

O you who lie beside God's Messenger, make my reward abundant.

Upon you forever be God's peace, O Umar.