Sol 6.1

  1. كشفت حجاب الطمس عن حيطة الأسما

    وغبت فلم تعرف سعاد ولا أسما

    You drew the veil of effacement away from the sphere of the Names.

    And you passed into absorption, knowing neither Su‘ad nor Asma.

  2. وسدت صدور القوم في كل حضرةٍ

    بشأن وفي الديوان أعظمهم أسما

    You led the foremost of the company in every presence,

    In stature; and in the council, yours was the greatest name.

  3. وفي سدة التصريف في سدرة العلا

    أخذت مقراً من مقام العلا أسمى

    At the seat of governance, at the lote tree of the heights,

    You took an abode loftier than the station of exaltation.

  4. ولاذت بك الأفراد في كل وجهةٍ

    وأصبح في علياك خائفهم يحمي

    The solitary saints sought refuge in you wherever they turned,

    And their fearful one found shelter in your heights.

  5. ولم لا وأنت السيد السند الذي

    عن المصطفى معنى شهدنا به رسما

    And why not, when you are the master, the mainstay,

    In whom we beheld an outward trace of the Chosen One’s inner meaning?

  6. أبو العلمين الغوث أحمد مرشد ال

    وجود وأوفى الأوليا مدداً قسما

    Father of the Two Standards, the succor Ahmad, guide of

    Existence, and most bounteous of the saints in allotted aid.

  7. رفاعي أهل اللَه أرفع حزبهم

    محلاً وأعلاهم وأكثرهم علما

    Rifa‘i of God’s people, loftiest of their fellowship

    In station, highest among them, and richest in knowledge;

  8. وأقربهم من سيد الأنبيا يدا

    وأوسعهم صدراً وأوفرهم حلما

    And nearest of them in hand to the master of the prophets,

    Most openhearted of them, and most abundant in forbearance.

  9. ومد يمين الهاشمي إشارة

    لقدرك لكن لا تحيط بها فهما

    The extending of the Hashemite’s right hand was a sign

    Of your worth, though you cannot encompass it in understanding.

  10. مقام عن الأبصار دق مكانه

    وشأن سما في أمر طولته مرمى

    A station whose place is too subtle for sight,

    And a dignity whose mighty reach rose high.

  11. ودولة سر في مدار الخفا انجلت

    فجلت وما اسطاع الخفا دونها كتما

    A dominion of mystery was revealed within the orbit of concealment,

    So it grew majestic, and concealment could not keep it hidden.

  12. تكلمت في غلف من المهد جهرةً

    وأعطيت في معنى الكلام به حزما

    You spoke aloud from the cradle, still in your wrappings,

    And there you were granted sound judgment in the meaning of speech.

  13. وجاءت لك الأسماك من بحر بصرة

    لساحله تسعى إلى بحرك الأهمى

    The fish came to you from Basra’s sea,

    Hastening to its shore, toward your more freely flowing sea.

  14. ونخلة جرعاء البطائح قد مشت

    إليك على منوال دعوتك العظمى

    A palm on the sandy ground of al-Bata’ih walked

    To you, in keeping with your mighty summons.

  15. وشاة الولى الراعي حين لمتها

    وقد ضعفت لحماً وقد وهنت عظما

    And the shepherd saint’s ewe, when you reproached her,

    Her flesh wasted and her bones weakened,

  16. فعادت بإذن اللَه كاملة القوى

    ودرت حليباً بعد أن كلفت عزما

    Returned, by God’s leave, to full strength,

    And yielded milk after being charged to show resolve.

  17. وبستان إسمعيل لما اشتريته

    بقصر وقد أرهته الخط والختما

    And Isma‘il’s garden, when you bought it

    For a palace, having shown him the writing and the seal—

  18. وذاك بدار الخلد في ساحة الرضا

    فصدقك الملوى ووعدك قدتما

    That was in the eternal abode, in the court of contentment.

    The Lord vindicated you, and your promise was fulfilled.

  19. ومجلسك المشهور للوعظ لم تزل

    به تسمع الأطروش ما قلت والبكما

    At your renowned gathering for exhortation, you would always

    Make the deaf and the mute hear what you said.

  20. وعن بعد يوم في النواحي وفي القرى

    كلامك مسموع كمجلسك الأسمى

    A day’s journey away, in the districts and the villages,

    Your words were heard as in your most exalted assembly.

  21. وريقك كم داوى عليلاً من البلا

    وكم أفسدت في الجسم شربته سما

    How often your saliva healed one stricken by affliction;

    How often a draught of it neutralized poison in the body.

  22. وكم من فؤاد قد عضب ضارب

    بنفثة ريق منك صح وما أدمى

    And how many a heart a striker had severed

    Was healed by a puff of your saliva, and did not bleed.

  23. ونار الغضا الحمرا بذكرك تنطفي

    وتنقشع الأكدار والليلة الدهما

    The red fire of ghada wood dies out at your mention,

    And troubles and the pitch-black night are dispelled.

  24. تطرز آثار الرجال مناقباً

    بذكر صفات منك تستغلب الوهما

    The legacies of men are embroidered with virtues

    By recounting qualities of yours that defy imagination.

  25. جلالة قدر نلتها بوراثة

    خفية الحاق لخير الورى تنمى

    A majesty of rank you attained through inheritance,

    A hidden affiliation traced to the best of creation.

  26. حديث اتصال مسند ومسلسل

    لأشرف كف نلت من وجهها لثما

    A report of contact, supported by a chain and linked in succession,

    With the noblest hand, whose palm you came to kiss.

  27. وطبت بها قلباً ونورت قالباً

    وذبت صفا مذ حزت من عطرها شما

    Through it you grew pure in heart and illumined in bodily form,

    And dissolved in purity once you caught a breath of its fragrance.

  28. وغبت بها عن كل بادٍ وحاضر

    فلا هند في قلب هناك ولا سلمى

    Through it you became oblivious to every nomad and townsman,

    So neither Hind nor Salma had a place in that heart.

  29. أمولاي يا شبل البتول وبضعة الر

    رسول ويا أوفى شيوخ الورى سهما

    O my master, lion-cub of al-Batul, and a portion of the

    Messenger, O most richly endowed of creation’s shaykhs,

  30. ويا نائب المختار في كل مشهد

    ويا بدل المقتول في كربلا ظلما

    O deputy of the Chosen One in every assembly,

    O successor to him unjustly slain at Karbala,

  31. ويا نجل كرار الرجال الذي جلا

    لنا بضيا إشراق حكمته عتما

    O offspring of the relentless charger against warriors, who dispelled

    Our darkness with the radiant light of his wisdom.

  32. بجدك زين العابدين وبابنه

    وجعفر والشهم الذي استصحب الكظما

    By your forebear Zayn al-‘Abidin, and by his son,

    And Ja‘far, and the gallant one who made restraint his companion,

  33. أبى الفضل موسى الاصطفا وعلى الرضى

    وسيدنا الهادي ومن تمموا النظما

    Abu al-Fadl, Musa the elect, and ‘Ali al-Rida,

    And our master al-Hadi, and those who completed the sequence—

  34. أئمة أهل البيت ساداتنا ومن

    محبتهم يجلى بها البصر الأعمى

    The Imams of the Household, our masters, those

    Through love for whom blinded sight is cleared;

  35. بجملة أصحاب الرسول جميعهم

    نجوم الهدى من شيدوا الدين والحكما

    By all the Messenger’s Companions, every one,

    Stars of guidance, who built up religion and wise judgment;

  36. باتباعهم والأولياء وحزبهم

    وأهل التقى من أسسوا الرشد والعلما

    By their followers, the saints and their company,

    And the people of piety who established right guidance and knowledge:

  37. تداركني الغوث الغياث فإنني

    ضعيف قوي لا عزم عند و لا حزما

    Rescue me—help, deliverance!—for I

    Am weak in strength, with neither resolve nor firmness.

  38. وجار عدوي وافترى وأساءني

    وصار صديقي لي لهدم الرجا خصما

    My enemy has wronged me, slandered me, and harmed me,

    And my friend became my adversary, seeking to demolish hope.

  39. وذاب وجودي من شماتة حاسد

    وحرت لذا هما وغبت بذا غما

    My being melted away at an envier’s gloating,

    And I was bewildered with worry at that, lost in grief at this.

  40. علي قد استولت كروبي وقد فشت

    عيوبي وضاع الرأي من فكرتي مما

    My sorrows have overpowered me, and there have spread

    My faults; judgment has deserted my thoughts through all this.

  41. وليس لأعتاب الرسول وآله

    وسيلة قرب تكشف الخطب إن عما

    And to the thresholds of the Messenger and his family there is no

    Means of nearness that dispels calamity when it engulfs all,

  42. سواك فتى الأقطاب يا خير مرشد

    ويا علم السادات يا شيخهم قدما

    Except you, champion of the spiritual poles, O best of guides,

    O banner of the masters, O their shaykh from of old.

  43. عرفتك غوثاً لي وجداً وناصرا

    وحصناً به من كل نائبةٍ أحمى

    I have known you as my succor, my forebear, and my helper,

    And a fortress where I am protected from every calamity,

  44. وسيفاً لقطع الحبل من كل ظالم

    وركناً فلا أعرى لديه ولا أظما

    And a sword to sever every oppressor’s cord,

    And a refuge where I am neither naked nor thirsty.

  45. عليك رضاء اللَه يا غوث سدة ال

    وجود مدى ما طبت بين الملا أسما

    God’s pleasure be upon you, O succor of the seat of

    Existence, as long as your name is sweet among the throng.

  46. وأشرف ختم بالصلاة على الذي

    غدا لكرام الرسل والأنبيا ختما

    The noblest close is with blessings upon him

    Who became the seal of the noble messengers and prophets,

  47. إمام صدور المرسلين الذي ارتقى

    إلى قاب قوسين الشهود كما هما

    Leader of the foremost messengers, who ascended

    To two bows’ length in witnessing, just as the two are.

  48. وكان هو المعروف في حضرة العمى

    بل العالم الموصوف في عالم الأسما

    And he was the one known in the presence of the Cloud,

    Nay, the knower described in the realm of the Names.

  49. وأكرم أنواع السلام لآله

    وأصحابه ما مدحهم عطر النطما

    And the noblest kinds of peace be to his family

    And his Companions, as long as their praise perfumes verse;

  50. ولابن الرفاعي ما به قال مادح

    كشفت حجاب الطمس عن حيطة الأسما

    And to Ibn al-Rifa‘i, as long as a praiser says of him:

    You drew the veil of effacement away from the sphere of the Names.