Sol 6.1

  1. للَّه خطب جلل من عظمه

    قلوبنا باتت على جمر الغضا

    God, what a tremendous calamity—so great that

    our hearts have spent the night upon ghada embers!

  2. ونكبة عم الأنام حزنها

    إذ خص فيها آل بيت المرتضى

    A disaster whose sorrow encompassed all mankind,

    for it singled out the household of al-Murtada.

  3. ويا له فرط جوىً أثر في

    العين قذىً وفي الفؤاد مرضا

    And oh, what boundless anguish, leaving in

    the eye a mote, and in the heart a sickness!

  4. كم ذا يعاني في الزمان نوباً

    وكم نقاسي للخطوب مضضا

    How many calamities one endures through time,

    and how much anguish we suffer from misfortunes!

  5. كيف القرار لامرء مقتله

    امسى لأسهم الرزايا غرضا

    How can a man find rest, when his vital spot

    has become a target for calamity's arrows?

  6. أنى لعين قد تغشاها القذى

    إذ غاب عنها نورها إن تغمضا

    How can an eye, already veiled by grit,

    now that its light is gone, ever close?

  7. وكيف بالصبر لمن غودر من

    تراكم الهم عليه حرضا

    And how can one be patient, when left

    wasted away by grief heaped upon him?

  8. أينقضي الوجد لمولىً رزؤه

    كذكره الجميل ما له انقضا

    Can grief for a master end, when his loss,

    like his fair memory, knows no end?

  9. ندب له أمسى مباح النوم مح

    ظوراً ومكروه الأسى مفترضا

    For that noble man, once-lawful sleep has become

    forbidden, and unwelcome grief obligatory.

  10. كلم سيف همه أكبادنا

    إذ هو سيف للخطوب منتضى

    The sword of grief for him has wounded our livers,

    for he was a sword unsheathed against misfortunes.

  11. أجرى عقيق دمع عيني ذكره

    لا ذكر جيران العقيق فالغضا

    His memory made my eyes' carnelian-red tears flow,

    not memories of the dwellers of al-Aqiq and al-Ghada.

  12. للَه كم أوهن عظماً كربه

    وكم قوىً هد وظهراً انقضا

    God, how many a bone grief for him has weakened,

    and how much strength it shattered, how many a back it cracked!

  13. صوح روض الأنس بعده وقد

    كان بفيض جوده مروضا

    The garden of companionship withered after him, though

    his overflowing generosity had made it green.

  14. واغبرت الغبراء والخضراء إذا

    قضى وضاق بعده رحب الفضا

    Earth and heaven grew dust-gray when

    he died, and the wide expanse narrowed after him.

  15. لا فض فوك لائمي إذ كنت لي

    على البكاء والأسى محرضا

    May your mouth never be broken, my reproacher, since you

    have urged me toward weeping and grief.

  16. افتراك مذهلي عن ود من

    قد كان أرعى من لودي محضا

    Do you think you can distract me from loving one

    who was the most caring of those who loved me sincerely?

  17. من كان عن ذنب الصديق مغضياً

    وعن أساءة الخليل مغمضا

    One who overlooked a friend's fault,

    and closed his eyes to a companion's offense.

  18. ما خفر الإل على علاته

    يوماً ولا ذمة عهد نقضا

    He never betrayed a bond, despite all its strains,

    nor ever broke the pledge of a covenant.

  19. لم أنس أياماً زهت بقربه

    ومحفلاً بأنسه قد أروضا

    I have not forgotten days made radiant by his nearness,

    or a gathering made verdant by his companionship:

  20. أيام كنا معه في غبطةٍ

    ودعةٍ وصفو عيشٍ خفضا

    days when we were with him in happiness

    and ease, and the serenity of a comfortable life.

  21. زال وزال الظل حتى خلتها

    حلماً مضى ولمح برق أو مضا

    He vanished, and the shade vanished, until I thought those days

    a vanished dream, a lightning-glimpse that flashed.

  22. لا قر عيش قر بعدها ولا

    قرت عيون طمعت أن تغمضا

    May no life that found ease after them know ease,

    nor eyes that hoped to close ever find comfort.

  23. أعزز به من راحل لم يرتحل

    عنا وإن قوض فيمن قوضا

    How dear a departed one, who has not departed

    from us, though he struck camp among those who struck camp!

  24. قضى حميد الذكر مرتضى كما

    قضى كذاك عمره الذي انقضى

    He died, praised in memory and well-pleasing, just as

    he had spent his life, now ended, in that same way.

  25. قد كان في اللَه تعالى فانياً

    وعن جميع ما سواه معرضا

    He had been wholly effaced in God, exalted is He,

    turning away from everything besides Him;

  26. وصابراً على البلاء شاكراً

    مسلماً لأمره مفوضا

    patient in affliction, grateful,

    submitting to His decree, entrusting all to Him.

  27. لولا بنوه الخازنوا علومه

    لقرض العلم غداة قرضا

    Were it not for his sons, the keepers of his learning,

    learning would have perished the morning he perished.

  28. ما مات مولىً ناب عن معشر

    قد خلفوه بجميل إذا مضى

    No master truly dies who stood for a company

    that worthily succeeds him when he departs.

  29. وهل يموت من ولي عهده

    من بالعلوم يافعاً قد نهضا

    And can one die whose appointed successor

    rose high in learning while still a youth?

  30. مهدي أهل الحق والقائم بالد

    دين الذي له المهيمن ارتضى

    Al-Mahdi of the people of truth, upholder of the

    religion which the Guardian chose for him;

  31. ومن له مهابةق يغضى لها

    لم يعطها الليث الذي قد غيضا

    and one whose majesty makes eyes lower before him,

    such as the lion within its thicket was never granted;

  32. وعزمة ثاقبة يكاد لا

    يجري بغير ما جرت به القضا

    and a piercing resolve: scarcely does

    fate run otherwise than as that resolve has run.

  33. أمضى من السيف ولو أعيرها

    السيف لما احتيج إلى أن ينتضى

    Sharper than a sword; and were it lent to

    the sword, there would be no need to unsheathe it.

  34. وحدس فهم كم به أوضح من

    دقايق العلوم ما قد غمضا

    And intuitive understanding, through which he clarified so many

    subtleties of learning that had been obscure;

  35. وعصمة يوشك أن تقضي له

    بأنه مهدي آل المرتضى

    and a blamelessness that all but declares

    him the Mahdi of al-Murtada's family.

  36. يا أيها المهدي يا بقية

    الصفوة يا سلوة من منهم مضى

    O Mahdi, O remnant of

    the elect, O solace for the loss of those among them departed,

  37. عليك بالصبر الجميل أنني

    أخشى عليك أن تكون حرضا

    hold fast to gracious patience, for I

    fear that you will waste away.

  38. تعز في اللَه فإن فيه عم

    ما فات أو ما سيفوت عوضا

    Take comfort in God, for in Him there is recompense for

    what has been lost or will yet be lost.

  39. لا تبتئس بموته الذي قضى

    اللَه فخير خلق اللَه قبله قضى

    Do not grieve over his death, which was decreed by

    God; the best of God's creation died before him.

  40. واعلم يقيناً أنه لم يرتحل

    عن رحله كرهاً ولكن عن رضا

    And know with certainty that he did not depart

    his dwelling unwillingly, but with contentment.

  41. إذ كانت الدنيا على نضرتها

    أكره شيء عنده وأبغضا

    For this world, for all its freshness,

    was to him the most hateful and detested thing.

  42. رأى لدى السياق ما أعده

    اللَه له فسار يسعى موفضا

    In his death throes he saw what

    God had prepared for him, and went hastening swiftly.

  43. وحين حط بالحسين رحله

    نال به شفاعةً لن تدحضا

    And when he set down his baggage beside al-Husayn,

    through him he gained an intercession never to be rejected.

  44. وأعطي الفردوس منأى عن لظى

    تأريخه نال النعيم المرتضى

    And he was granted Paradise, far removed from the Blaze.

    His chronogram: 'Al-Murtada attained bliss.'

  45. وحيث لم يلق عذاباً أرخوا

    جاور مولانا الحسين المرتضى

    And since he met no torment, they composed this chronogram:

    'Al-Murtada dwelt beside our master al-Husayn.'

  46. وحيث لم يلق أثاماً أرخوا

    قل لك عند اللَه مأوى مرتضى

    And since he met no punishment for sin, they composed this chronogram:

    'Say: With God you have a well-pleasing abode.'

  47. الوجد وافى والمسرة انتأت

    إذ قال من أرخ مات المرتضى

    Grief arrived, and joy withdrew,

    when the chronogram's author said, 'Al-Murtada has died.'

  48. فليغتبط وليهنه أن قد أتى

    تأريخه حاز من اللَه الرضا

    So let him rejoice, and may he be gladdened that

    his chronogram reads: 'He gained God's good pleasure.'