1. كر الجديدين تبدو منه الوان

    وكل سر له طرز وعنوان

    From the turning of day and night, colors emerge.

    And every secret has a pattern and a title.

  2. عجائب من خدور الغيب بارزة

    تلوح يهشدها من فيه اذعان

    Wonders emerge from the secluded chambers of the unseen;

    They gleam, witnessed by whoever is receptive.

  3. اشكو الى الله ما لاقيت من زمن

    صعب وللخير اوقات وازمان

    I complain to God of what I have endured in an age

    Of hardship; goodness has its seasons and times.

  4. الليل يدجو وتبدو الشمس طالعة

    والناس صاروا على معكوس ما كانوا

    Night grows dark, and the sun appears rising;

    And people have become the opposite of what they were.

  5. كم منهم قام اخوان بلا الف

    طبعا وللالف عن طور بهم خانوا

    How many of them stood as brothers without an alif,

    By nature; out of their own disposition, they betrayed their companion.

  6. دعهم اخي ورح بالله مشتغلا

    فهو المعين وما في الناس اعوان

    Leave them, my brother, and go on absorbed in God.

    For He is the Helper, and among people there are no helpers.

  7. وصر كشأني على الرحمن متكلا

    فكل شخص له في طوره شان

    And be, as I am, reliant on the All-Merciful;

    For each person has his own concern in his own state.

  8. وقف بباب رسول الله عن ادب

    فترب اعتابه بر واحسان

    And stand with reverence at the door of God's Messenger;

    For the dust of his thresholds is goodness and beneficence.

  9. اني اذا سامني ضيم الوذ به

    ولي بنجدته البيضاء ايمان

    Indeed, when injustice afflicts me, I seek refuge in him;

    And I have faith in his radiant succor.

  10. وللجناب الرفيع القدر واسطتي

    نورين من قد اتانا فيه قرآن

    And my intermediary to that presence of lofty rank is

    He of the Two Lights, concerning whom Qur'anic revelation has come to us.

  11. صهر النبي ولي البضعتين ومن

    علت له في زوايا القدس اركان

    The Prophet's son-in-law, guardian of the two portions of his flesh, and one

    For whom pillars rose in the corners of holiness.

  12. وهذه يد عثمان استقر له

    بها الفخار وعنه انحط كيوان

    And this is Uthman's hand; firmly established for him

    By it is glory, and Saturn has descended beneath him.

  13. كنز الحياء وفياض العطاء ونبر

    اس الوفاء ومن بالله ولهان

    A treasure of modesty, overflowing with generosity, and a beacon

    Of fidelity, and one enraptured with God.

  14. سما بمنح قريش من اوائله

    بيت له في مدر المجد ديوان

    Through Quraysh's gifts, from his forebears rose

    A house with a court among glory's clay-built dwellings.

  15. وشرفته من المختار جامعة

    بالاصل فالاصل في ذا الجمع يزدان

    And a bond with the Chosen One has ennobled him

    Through lineage; for lineage is adorned in this union.

  16. زان الحياء معاليه برونقه

    وفي الحياء مع الايمان عرفان

    Modesty adorned his lofty virtues with its luster;

    And in modesty, together with faith, lies spiritual insight.

  17. قضى صبورا كما قد نص مبتهلا

    امامه من كتاب الله فرقان

    He died patiently, as was stated, in supplication;

    Before him was the Criterion from the Book of God.

  18. ادعوه واللب مذهول ومن ثقل الا

    وزار فكري والهفاه حيران

    I call upon him, my mind bewildered; beneath the weight of

    The burdens of sin, my thoughts—alas!—are at a loss.

  19. يا ثالث الخلفاء الزهر خذ بيدي

    وارحم حنيني فللايام عدوان

    O third of the radiant caliphs, take me by the hand,

    And have mercy on my yearning, for the days are hostile.

  20. ويوم حشري فكن عوني عسى كرما

    يمحو ذنوبي من الرحمن غفران

    And on the day I am gathered, be my helper; perhaps, through grace,

    Forgiveness from the All-Merciful will erase my sins.