ناد القلوب لعلها

أن تستفيق لعلها

Call to the hearts; perhaps they

may awaken—perhaps they will.

فقلوبنا قد أسقيت

نهل للذنوب وعلها

Our hearts have been made to drink

a first draught of sins, and then a second.

تحيي بوبل غيوثكم

ان لم يكن فبطلها

They are revived by the downpour of your rains;

if there is none, then by their drizzle.

ان لم تداوى منكم

يا أهل الشفاء فمن لها

If they are not healed by you,

O people of healing, then who is there for them?

منوا عليها بالرضى

وبفتح مغلق قفلها

Bestow favor upon them,

and open their closed lock.

بطلوع شمس رضاكم

سيزول غيهب جهلها

With the rising of the sun of your favor,

the deep darkness of their ignorance will vanish.

لما بدت شمس الرسل

نار الوجود لأهلها

When the sun of the messengers appeared,

existence shone for its people.

فبصائر أهل الاقتدا

والاهتدا يكشف لها

Thus, for the inner eyes of those who follow

and find guidance, the veil is lifted

عنها فتنظر نورها

وبهاءها وجمالها

from it, and they behold its light,

its splendor and its beauty.

وغدت خفافيش الهوى

لا يهتدون محلها

And the bats of passion came to be

unable to find its place.

ويكذبوا من يخبروا

عنها وينفوا فضلها

They brand as liars those who speak

of it, and deny its excellence.

حكماً وقفت حيثما

وقفت هناك عقولها

In judgment, they halted wherever

their minds had halted there.

في العالم الحسيّ غا

ية علمها ونقولها

Within the sensory world lies the utmost

extent of their knowledge and their transmitted accounts.

لم تدر ما علم اليقي

ن ولا يمرّ ببالها

They did not know what the knowledge of certainty

is, nor does it cross their minds.

وليس ذلك منقص

أمراً لهم لكمالها

And that does not diminish

anything for them, owing to its perfection.

ان القلةب إذا انجلى

بالذكر رين ضلالها

Indeed, when the hearts are freed

through remembrance from the rust of their error,

وتقدّست وتطهرت

عن خبثها أوغلها

and are sanctified and purified

of their foulness or their rancor,

علمت حقيقة ما علي

ها في الكتاب وما لها

they know the truth of what is incumbent

upon them in the Book, and what is theirs,

ورقت من التقلير إلى

تحقيق صدق رسولها

and ascend from imitation to

realization of their Messenger's truthfulness.

لو انكشفت عنها الغطا

ما زادها صدقاً لها

Were the veil lifted from them,

it would add nothing to their conviction.

يا ربّ إن قلوبنا

صدئت كثيراً فاجلها

O Lord, indeed our hearts

have grown heavily rusted; polish them.

وانقادهاوسواسها

وأوهامها وخيالها

And if they are led by their whispering,

their delusions and their imagination,

فغدت تصدّق كاذباً

من مستحيل آمالها

they come to believe a falsehood

from among their impossible hopes.

وظهورنا بأوزارنا

كادت تئط لثقلها

And our backs, laden with our sins,

have nearly creaked beneath their weight.

وبكم تناهت أزمة

ونسيم لطفك حلها

And through you, a crisis came to an end;

and the breeze of your kindness resolved it.

ولكم بدت من معضلا

ت فيض فضلك زالها

And how many difficulties have arisen

that the outpouring of your bounty removed!

ولكم قلوب أبصرت

وقلوبنا أنى لها

And how many hearts have gained sight!

But our hearts—how are they to see?

نرجو بحقّ محمد

يصلح قبيح فعالها

We hope, by the right of Muhammad,

that the ugliness of their deeds be set right.

صلى عليه ربنا

ما عيس جدّ رحيلها

May our Lord bless him

as long as pale camels hasten on their journey

إلى ضريح قد زهت

به يثرب وأهيلها

to a tomb that has lent splendor

to Yathrib and its dear people.

فخررت بجسم محمد

طوبى لها طوبى لها

It took pride in Muhammad's body—

blessed is it! Blessed is it!

فيا لها من بقعة

حوت السيادة يا لها

Oh, what a spot it is,

holding preeminence—oh, what a place!

فخرت بجميع بقاعها

من وعرها وسهلها

It took pride in all its tracts,

in its rugged terrain and its plains.

واختم سلاماً دائماً

بعد الصلاة وقبلها

And conclude with unending greetings of peace,

after the blessing and before it.

وارجع لقولك أوّلا

ناد القلةب لعلها

And return to your opening words:

Call to the hearts; perhaps they...