Sol 6.1

  1. الله أكبر رزء نكس العلما

    وأسس الحزن في البابنا ألَمَا

    God is greatest! A calamity has lowered the banner,

    and grief has planted pain within our minds.

  2. واهتزت الأرض عاليها وسافلها

    حتى السموات والعرش الذي عظما

    The earth shook, its heights and its depths,

    even the heavens and the mighty Throne.

  3. في الشرق والغرب منها رجة رجفت

    تكاد تقلب هذا الكون منعدما

    A tremor shook its east and west,

    almost turning this universe to nothing.

  4. والخطب يرجف أكواناً إذا اندهشت

    نعم ويوري سعيراً بالجوى ضرما

    The catastrophe makes bewildered worlds tremble;

    yes, and kindles a raging blaze with inward sorrow.

  5. مصيبة ساقت الأقدار سائقها

    وعاق عائقها وقعاً بما دهما

    A calamity whose driver the decrees of fate drove onward,

    and whose hinderer was thwarted as its overwhelming blow descended.

  6. وأرصدت لأوان آن موقعه

    وللمواقع أوقات كما علما

    It lay waiting for an appointed time whose moment had come;

    events have their appointed times, as is known.

  7. رزيئة الدهر هل أبقيت باقية

    تبقى لنا سلوة الأحزان مستلما

    O calamity of time, have you left anything behind

    to remain for us a solace in sorrow, something to embrace?

  8. ما للنوائح لا ترقى لها مقل

    ما للجوانح حرى والبلاء طمى

    Why do the mourners’ eyes not dry?

    Why do hearts burn while affliction overflows?

  9. أرى الحياة ولا عيش يلذ بها

    رغداً وحادي المنايا زادنا غمما

    I see life, yet no living in it tastes sweet

    or easy; death’s caravan-driver has deepened our sorrows.

  10. أرى الظلام سجى طمسا معالمه

    ما للسراة اهتدا يخطونه قدما

    I see darkness settled, its landmarks obliterated;

    night travelers have no guidance by which to step ahead.

  11. حقاً تغيب بدر الأرض تحت ثرى

    حتى تجسد ديجور الدجى ظلما

    Truly, earth’s full moon has vanished beneath the soil,

    until the night’s pitch-darkness took on solid form.

  12. فمن يقدر تقديراً منازله

    بعد الأفول فلا نور لما انبهما

    Who now can determine its stations with due measure

    after its setting, when no light remains for what lies obscure?

  13. بل من على الشمس إذ تجري مقدرة

    لمستقر لها حيث الضيا انكتما

    Indeed, who has power over the sun as it runs by decree

    toward its resting place, where its radiance is concealed?

  14. هذي منازل من ولى على أسف

    أعني الامام وأعني المفرد العلما

    These are the stations of him who departed, leaving sorrow;

    I mean the Imam, I mean the peerless luminary.

  15. أعني الخليلي امام المسلمين ومن

    دهى الكوائن من منعاه ما دهما

    I mean al-Khalili, Imam of the Muslims, and the one whose

    death-tidings brought an overwhelming calamity upon all beings.

  16. محمد نجل عبد الله نجل سعي

    د الأبر ونجل السادة العلما

    Muhammad, son of ʿAbd Allah, son of Saʿī—

    —d, the most dutiful, and son of the learned masters.

  17. من لي على صرف دهر سل صارمه

    فما انثنى عنه حتى حز واصطلما

    Who will help me against time’s vicissitudes, which drew its keen sword

    and did not turn from him until it cut him down and uprooted him?

  18. قل للذي طير المنعى بذا نبأ

    أطرت طائر شؤم روع الأمما

    Say to him who sent the death-tidings flying with this news:

    You loosed a bird of ill omen that terrified the nations.

  19. أطرت روح حياة العلم فانجذبت

    وللمعارف روح تنشط الهمما

    You sent flying the life-spirit of knowledge, and it was drawn away;

    for learning has a spirit that quickens resolve.

  20. هذي الرزيئة أهل الأرض إن لها

    وقعاً وصدعاً عظيماً ليس ملتئما

    People of the earth, this calamity has

    a mighty impact and a rift that cannot heal.

  21. حكت بدهشتها سعداً وهزته

    عرش الإله بخير القرن لو قدما

    In its shock it recalls Saʿd and his shaking

    of God’s Throne in the finest generation, had he gone before.

  22. هما شبيهان في رزء وفي جلل

    وفي موازنة الأقدار بينهما

    The two are alike in loss and in its enormity,

    and in the balance of the destinies between them.

  23. سعد بسعد حياة طاب مسكنه

    وطاب مأمنه يهنا الهنا نعما

    Saʿd, blessed in life, has a pleasant dwelling,

    and a pleasant refuge; may he enjoy bliss and blessings.

  24. وذا اقتفاه اقتداء في طريقته

    في العلم والحلم والتعديل ان حكما

    And this man followed him, taking his path as his example,

    in learning, forbearance, and justice whenever he judged.

  25. كذلك العلم يعلى المرء منزلة

    رفيعة الشأن في أسمى الذرى قمما

    Thus knowledge raises a person to a station

    of lofty dignity, upon the highest summit-peaks,

  26. لكن على الجد والاخلاص في عمل

    وفي ثبات واخبات وكشف عمى

    but through earnestness and sincerity in deeds,

    and steadfastness, humility, and dispelling blindness.

  27. ولاحق فضله مع سابق فرطا

    سيان في الرتب العليا لهم عظما

    A later comer in virtue and a predecessor gone ahead

    are equal in the highest ranks, exalted for them.

  28. هذا مقامك في دنياك غايته

    بدءا وما نقص المقدار مختتما

    This was your station in your earthly life, its utmost height

    from the beginning; its measure did not diminish at the end.

  29. أبا خليل تركت الأرض موحشة

    فما أرى ثغرها بالأنس مبتسما

    Abu Khalil, you left the earth desolate,

    and I no longer see its mouth smiling with joy.

  30. تركت دولتك الزهراء ذاوية

    بعد النضارة لما غيثها انعدما

    You left your radiant realm withered

    after its freshness, when its rain had ceased.

  31. ارجع فديتك للافتاء كان له

    كنز من العلم يؤتي الحكم والحكما

    Return—I would ransom you—to giving legal rulings, for it had

    a treasure of knowledge that bestowed judgments and wisdom.

  32. أيدفن الكنز والآمال راجية

    منه المنافع كم أغنى وكم عمما

    Is the treasure to be buried while hopes still look

    to it for benefits? How much it enriched, how widely it gave!

  33. ارجع فديتك للدين الحنيف بكى

    بأعين اليتم لما فارق الرحما

    Return—I would ransom you—to the true faith, which wept

    with orphaned eyes when parted from the compassionate.

  34. كنت الكفيل له حفظاً تؤيده

    حامي الذمار شديد الغار محتزما

    You were its guardian, preserving and sustaining it,

    a defender of its honor, fiercely protective, firmly girded.

  35. قلد فديتك هذا الحق صارمه

    لا يغمد السيف والبطلان قد نجما

    Gird this truth—I would ransom you—with its keen sword;

    let the sword not be sheathed while falsehood has arisen.

  36. أدري المحال فما والله مرتجع

    لعالم الفقد سهم الموت فيه رمى

    I know it is impossible: by God, there is no return

    to the world of loss for one struck by death’s arrow.

  37. لكن عهود حياة قمت أذكرها

    وأنتقي الدر مكنوناً لها كلما

    Yet I rise to recall the seasons of a life,

    choosing treasured pearls as words for them.

  38. لهفي عليك امام العلم حين سرت

    بك المنايا مطايا ما انثنت قدما

    Alas for you, Imam of learning, when there journeyed

    with you the steeds of death, never turning back.

  39. كأنما النار في أحشائنا التهبت

    وعاديات الليالي تبعث الغمما

    It was as though fire had blazed within our hearts,

    and the assaults of nights stirred our sorrows.

  40. ان نبكك اليوم ندباً خير مرتحل

    نبك الفضيلة والأخلاق والشيما

    If today we weep for you in lament, best of those departed,

    we weep for virtue, morals, and noble qualities.

  41. نبك المكارم بسطاً صار منقبضا

    انقبض الكف عن بسط الندى كرما

    We weep for noble generosity, an outpouring now withdrawn,

    the hand withdrawn from freely spreading bounty.

  42. نبك السياسة إذ أبوابها انغلقت

    قد كنت فاتح مخفي بها انبهما

    We weep for statesmanship, whose doors have closed;

    you used to open what lay hidden and obscure within it.

  43. نبك المعارف لما غاب عارفها

    نبكي وفاءك يا أوفى الورى ذمما

    We weep for learning, now its master is gone;

    we weep for your faithfulness, most faithful of mankind in pledges.

  44. نبكي مجالسك الزهراء حيث خلت

    تشكو الجفاء فأين الوفد مزدحما

    We weep for your radiant assemblies, now empty,

    complaining of abandonment: where are the thronging delegations?

  45. نبكي شمائلك الحسناء خالدة

    في صفحة الدهر تأثيراً سنا علما

    We weep for your beautiful traits, enduring

    upon time’s page as an imprint, a shining beacon.

  46. نبك الكمال ونفساً فيك كاملة

    نبك المحيا فكم بالمنظر ابتسما

    We weep for perfection and for your perfected soul;

    we weep for your face—how often it smiled before our eyes!

  47. نبك القناة فقد لانت لغامزها ال

    أصباح الامسا أراك الشيب والهرما

    We weep for the spear-shaft, now yielding to what presses it—the

    mornings and evenings that showed you gray hair and old age.

  48. ويلاه ويلاه ما يجدي البكاء وما

    يبدي الحداء لمودوع غدا رمما

    Alas, alas! What use is weeping, and what

    can the caravan-song offer one laid away, now crumbling remains?

  49. قطب الأوان ويا زين المكان ويا

    نور الزمان أخا الايمان بدرسما

    O pivot of the age, beauty of the place, and

    light of the times, brother of faith, a full moon risen high!

  50. قربت سيرة أصحاب النبي هدى

    صافحتهم بيد ولو مضوا قدما

    You brought near the rightly guided way of the Prophet’s companions;

    you clasped their hands, though they departed long ago.

  51. وما نظرت إلى الدنيا وزهرتها

    وكيف والنور جلاء الدجى ظلما

    You never looked toward the world and its blossom;

    how could you, when light dispels the darkness of night?

  52. أبصرت غايتها من بعدما انكشفت

    إن البقاء سراب ما يبل ظما

    You saw its end once it had been unveiled:

    continuance is a mirage that quenches no thirst.

  53. وما لبست سوى التقوى على حذر

    والله يخشاه من هذا الورى العلما

    You wore nothing but piety, ever wary;

    among mankind, it is the learned who fear God.

  54. أقمتها مدة بالعدل سائرة

    بالحق ظاهرة حزماً ومعتزما

    You upheld it for a time, proceeding in justice,

    manifest in truth, with firmness and resolve.

  55. وتلك وصلة عمر لا مزيد لها

    وليس ينقص عمر أن يطل نسما

    That was a span of life to which nothing can be added;

    nor is a lifespan diminished, though its breaths grow long.

  56. قضى الإله فناء العالمين كما

    قضى البقاء له في لوحه ارتسما

    God ordained the passing of all worlds, just as

    He ordained His own abiding, inscribed upon His tablet.

  57. ماذا أقول إمام المسلمين وقد

    عاج العنان عن المعدى فما اقتحما

    What can I say, Imam of the Muslims, when

    the rein has turned aside from the course and failed to charge ahead?

  58. قد لزني العجز عن إدراك غاية ما

    أروم في الندب منثوراً ومنتظما

    Helplessness has pressed me back from reaching the utmost of what

    I seek in lament, in prose and measured verse.

  59. وللذهول انفعال بالنهى وقفت

    به المدارك عن إلمام ما التأما

    Bewilderment strikes the intellect, and there come to a halt

    the faculties, unable to grasp what joins together.

  60. وكيف تبلغ أقدار لك ارتفعت

    بها الورى انتفعت كالغيث حين همى

    How can one reach the heights of your exalted worth,

    through which mankind benefited like rain when it poured?

  61. أفضت بحرين من علم ومن كرم

    كلاهما زاخر في الفيض حين طمى

    You poured forth two seas, of knowledge and generosity,

    each swelling with abundance when it overflowed.

  62. سست الرعية بالتدبير متئداً

    بالحق معتمداً بالله معتصما

    You governed the people with thoughtful planning, unhurried,

    relying on truth, holding fast to God.

  63. وقف على الشرع في حكم وضرب يد

    على الظلوم وانصاف لمن ظلما

    He stood by sacred law in judgment and in the stroke of his hand

    against the oppressor, and in justice for the wronged.

  64. كم حز بالسيف قطاع الطريق وكم

    قد بز بالعزم أرباب السطى عزما

    How often his sword cut down highway robbers, and how often

    his determination surpassed the resolve of men of violence!

  65. تخشى مهابته قبل المثار فإن

    غشى المثار أطار البطل وانقصما

    His imposing presence was feared before the battle; if

    he entered the field, he sent the champion flying, shattered.

  66. موفق الفتح ما فوجي باصبعها

    مصاعب الأمر الا سهل الأزما

    Favored with victory, never startled by their finger—

    the difficulties of affairs—without easing the crises.

  67. لله غيرته لله سيرته

    لله نصرته لله إن هجما

    For God was his protective zeal, for God his conduct;

    for God his support, for God whenever he charged.

  68. كم حمل الصدر أثقالاً لو اجتمعت

    صدور كل الورى ضاقت بها همما

    His breast bore such burdens that, even were assembled

    the breasts of all mankind, their resolve would fail beneath them.

  69. كم ترجع الناس بعد الوصل راضية

    شاءت معارف أو شاءت يداً كرما

    How often people returned content after meeting him,

    whether they sought learning or a generous hand!

  70. يملي ويكتب والأشغال عارضة

    ويوجز القول إعجازاً فلم يرما

    He dictated and wrote while duties pressed upon him,

    and made his speech miraculously concise, beyond reproach.

  71. كم حار ذو الفكر في سطر بموجزة

    من البيان والقى عيه القلما

    How often a thinker was baffled by a line of concise

    eloquence, and his helplessness cast the pen aside!

  72. الله آتاه هذا العلم منزلة

    سما بها الوهب والالهام حيث سما

    God bestowed this knowledge upon him as a station,

    through which gift and inspiration rose to exalted heights.

  73. أتيتنا يا امام الدين في زمن

    أنت الغريب به فضلاً علا عظما

    You came to us, Imam of the faith, in an age

    in which you stood alone, exalted in virtue and greatness.

  74. أين المثيل على حسنى تقوم بها

    والوجهة الحق والاخلاص ملتزما

    Where is your equal in the goodness you uphold,

    with truth your aim and sincerity your steadfast commitment?

  75. قضيت عمرك في زهد وفي ورع

    حتى أتاك يقين وقعه انحتما

    You spent your life in asceticism and piety,

    until certainty came to you, its coming inevitable.

  76. لبيتها دعوة جاء البشير بها

    بمقعد الصدق والرضوان مغتنما

    You answered the summons brought by the bearer of glad tidings,

    to a seat of truth and divine pleasure, gaining the prize.

  77. قدمت صالحة الأعمال خالصة

    لوجه ربك شكاراً له نعما

    You sent ahead righteous deeds, pure

    for your Lord’s countenance, deeply thankful for His blessings.

  78. والمتقون لهم أجر على عمل

    ذاك الجزاء فيا طوبى لمن رحما

    The God-fearing have a reward for their deeds;

    that is the recompense—blessed is he who receives mercy!

  79. قرائح الوهب جودي بالرثاء ففي

    هذا المقام مقال ينتفى كلما

    O gift-born inspirations, pour forth elegies, for in

    this occasion, speech is denied its words.

  80. ويا بني ملة الاسلام تعزية

    مني إليكم وقلبي بالأسى اضطرما

    And, children of the faith of Islam, a condolence

    from me to you, while my heart burns with sorrow.

  81. دمع تحدر من عيني منسكباً

    تخاله السحب في تسكابها الديما

    Tears streamed down from my eyes,

    you would think them clouds pouring steady rain.

  82. بشرى سعادته في الاحتضار أتت

    طلاقة الوجه براقاً ومبتسما

    The glad tidings of his blessedness came at his deathbed:

    the openness of his face, shining and smiling.

  83. من الكرامة يا مولاي إن بقيت

    خلافة الله في رأس العلى علما

    Among the honors, my master, is that there remained

    God’s vicegerency, a banner at the summit of loftiness.

  84. من الكرامة يا مولاي مجتمع

    حوى الجموع من الآفاق مزدحما

    Among the honors, my master, was a gathering

    that held thronging crowds from every horizon.

  85. من الكرامة حر الشمس حجبه

    ظل الغمامة حال الدفن مرتكما

    Among the honors: the sun’s heat was screened

    by the cloud’s shadow, piled thick at the burial.

  86. من الكرامة نفح الطيب من جدث

    أودعت فيه ونور ساطع لسما

    Among the honors: the waft of perfume from a grave

    in which you were laid, and a brilliant light toward heaven.

  87. من الكرامة هذا الكون أجمعه

    راض عليك كما أخلصت معتزما

    Among the honors: this whole universe

    is pleased with you, as you were sincere and resolute.