قسمت قلبك في الهوى فتقسما — Al Burai

قسمت قلبك في الهَوى فتقسما

وَقتلت نفسك وَهيَ اقدار السما

You divided your heart in love, and it split apart.

And killed yourself—such are heaven's decrees.

تَرمي بعينك في عيون مطافل

لحظاتها بالسحر تقتل من رمى

You shoot your gaze into the eyes of does with young,

whose glances kill by magic whoever shoots.

وَتحن ان ذكروا معاهد رامة

يا بعد رامة من مرامكمرتمي

And you yearn when they recall the old haunts of Rāmah.

How far Rāmah is from your aim, O archer!

للظاعنين عَليّ عهد أَنَّني

أجرى المَدامع حين اذكرهم دما

I owe the departing a pledge: that I

make my tears flow as blood whenever I remember them.

وانوح في آثارهم متعللا

من بعد بعدهم بعل وربما

And I lament amid their traces, consoling myself

after their departure with 'perhaps' and 'maybe.'

وأَنا الفداء لذي جَمال باهر

انجدت يوم البين عنه واِتهما

And I would ransom the one of dazzling beauty;

on the day of parting, I went to Najd away from him, and he to Tihāmah.

لكنني اِستَمتَعت منه بنظرة

كالحلم أَو كالبرق حين تبسما

Yet I enjoyed a glance from him,

like a dream, or lightning when he smiled.

فَرأيت بدرا تحت ليل حالك

وَعجبت من حسن أَنار واظلما

I saw a full moon beneath a pitch-black night,

and marveled at beauty that shone and darkened.

تَرعى النَواظر في محاجر خده

روضا اقام الحسن فيه وخيما

Eyes graze within the confines of his cheek,

a garden where beauty settled and pitched its tent.

وَيردن من ثغر الحَبيب ملعسا

وَمعسلا وَموشرا وَموشما

And they seek drink from the beloved's mouth, dusky-lipped,

and honeyed, finely notched, and tattooed.

ظمئت مرا شفنا اليه وريها

في ذلك للعس المعسل وَاللمى

Our lips thirsted for it, and their quenching

lies in that honeyed dark redness and dusky lip-color.

لَم يدرعني ذو المَحاسن أَنَّني

اودعته روحي ورحت متيما

The beautiful one did not know that I

had entrusted him with my soul and become love's thrall.

خالسته يوم العذيب حشاشَتي

وَجلوته بدرا تقلد أَنجما

On the day at al-ʿUdhayb, I sought to steal my last spark of life back from him,

and unveiled him as a full moon wearing a necklace of stars.

طرح السَلاة بطرفه فاذا نبى

ما ضره لوحين سلم سلما

He banished solace with his glance; then, when he turned away,

what harm if, when greeted, he had returned the greeting?

يا صاحِبي وَللزَمان تقلب

بالناس لَو أَنصفتما لعذرتما

O my two companions—Time deals changing fortunes

to people; had you been fair, you would have excused me.

لا تكثرا عذلي فلذ سجية

شجن حشا الاحشاء جمرا مضرما

Do not reproach me overmuch; [unclear phrase concerning disposition].

A sorrow has filled my innards with blazing coals.

وَمَتى أَعوج إِلىعواجة نازِلا

بالربع من ذاك الجناب مسلما

And when shall I turn toward ʿAwājah, alighting

at the dwelling in that precinct, offering greetings?

واهل بالاحرام زائر سادة

من زار تربتهم اهل واحرما

And raise the pilgrim's cry in consecration, visiting masters—

whoever visits their burial ground cries out and enters consecration.

هي روضة مزجت بطينة طيبة

وَسمت فَنافَسَت الحطيم وَزَمزَما

It is a garden mingled with the clay of Ṭaybah,

and it rose to rival al-Ḥaṭīm and Zamzam.

وَعراصها خيم الغنى ومن المنى

وَخضمبرّ في البَريَّة قد طما

Its courtyards are tents of abundance and hopes,

and an ocean of goodness has overflowed throughout creation.

ذا ابن الحسين وَذا أَخوه فَتى ابي

بكرهما سر الوجود هما هما

This is Ibn al-Ḥusayn, and this his brother, the son of Abū

Bakr; they are existence's secret—they, indeed, they!

قمران بالذكر الجَميل تجملا

وَتجللا وَتسربلا وَتعمما

Two moons adorned with fair renown,

cloaked in it, clothed in it, and turbaned with it.

غوثان ان عدت العَوادي أوقسا

قلب الزَمان فَما أَبر وَأَرحَما

Two rescuers when calamities assail or hardness overtakes

Time's heart—how kind and merciful they are!

ان تقصد البجلي عشت مبجلا

اولذت بالحكمى قال تحكما

If you seek al-Bajalī, you live honored;

or take refuge with al-Ḥakamī, he says, 'Command as you will!'

فلذا وَذا خلق أَرق من الصبا

وأَلذ من ماء العذيب عَلى الظما

Both have a nature gentler than the east breeze,

and sweeter than al-ʿUdhayb's water to one athirst.

أَمحمد ومحمد لِلَّه من

جَبَلَين يَحمي كل من بكما اِحتَمى

O Muḥammad and Muḥammad—by God, what

two mountains, protecting all who take refuge in you both!

لكما يحمل عرش ربك همة

وَيد من الايدي الَّتي بنت السما

Yours is an aspiration that bears your Lord's throne,

and a hand among the hands that built heaven.

وَالبكما جرتالاشارة ليلة ال

معراج اذ حيا الرَسول وَسلما

And toward you both the sign was directed on the night of the

Ascension, when the Messenger saluted and offered peace.

كان الوَرى عدما وآدم لم يكن

فَدَعا النَبي بروحه روحيكما

Creation was nonexistent, and Adam was not yet,

so the Prophet, through his spirit, called your two spirits.

وأقيم كرسي النبوّة غاية

لَولا سميكما سما لسبقتما

And the seat of prophethood was established as the goal;

had your namesake not risen high, you would have reached it first.

فجذبتما بسلاسل الانوار في

سبق العناية فاِفعَلا ما شئتما

You were drawn by chains of light within

the prior favor of providence; so do whatever you wish.

وَشربتما كأس الوصال روية

في حضرة قدسية جمعتكما

And you drank your fill of the cup of union,

in a holy presence that brought you together.

وَليستما من عبقري كَرامة

حلل الرضا لا العَبقَري المعلما

And you both donned the wondrous brocade of grace:

robes of acceptance, not patterned brocade.

فغدت رياض الارض رضوانية

بكما تشعشع نورها فَتبسما

So the gardens of earth became paradisal;

through you both their light glittered and smiled.

وَثنت خزامى القرب عطف سرورها

طربا وَعاد حمامها مترنما

And the lavender of nearness bent its side in joy,

in rapture, and its doves resumed their song.

ان الولاية خلعة مرقومة

بكما وَعز منسموكما سما

Sainthood is a robe embroidered

with you both, and an honor risen from your exalted station.

وَالهدى تاج للزمان مرصع

بجواهر العلم الَّذي علمتما

And guidance is a crown for Time, studded

with jewels of the knowledge you both knew.

تَجري بامركما الامور الى مدى

عزلا وَتولية كَما احببتما

Affairs proceed by your command to their limits,

in dismissal and appointment, just as you both desire.

وَيحيط سركما الوجود فكل ما

في الكون لا يَخفيه شيء عنكما

And your secret encompasses existence, so all that

is in the universe—nothing conceals it from you both.

اني أَعد كما لدفع مكاره

الدنيا والاخرى حيث كنت وَكنتما

I keep you both as my provision against the hardships

of this world and the next, wherever I am and you both are.

هَل عطفه بجلية حكمية

نبوية صمدية لي منكما

Is there a kindness, Bajalī and Ḥakamī,

prophetic and divine, for me from you both?

ابنى بها مجدى وأمنع جانبي

وأرد أنف من اِبتغاني مرغما

With it I would build my glory and defend my flank,

and rub the nose of whoever pursues me into the dust.

عار عَلى أَهل الحفائظ ان رأوا

روغ الثَعالِب يفترسن الضيغما

It shames those who guard their honor if they see

cunning foxes devouring the lion.

سَلاسيوفكما وَذبا عَن حمى

عَبد الرَحيم ومن يَليه تكرما

Draw your swords and defend the sanctuary of

ʿAbd al-Raḥīm and those close to him, out of generosity.

قَولا لمن يَبغي اذاه معاندا

شلت بداهوَعم عينيه العمى

Tell whoever stubbornly seeks to harm him:

'May his hands be paralyzed, and blindness engulf his eyes!'

وَخذا عَلى أَيدي عداى وادركا

حبل الجَلالة قبل أَن يتصرما

Restrain my enemies' hands, and grasp

the rope of majesty before it is severed.

أَينَ الحَميَّة بالحماية لي فقد

اعذرت يا أَهل الحماية وَالحمى

Where is your zeal to protect me? For I have

given due warning, O guardians of protection and sanctuary.

لازلتما غيما يمد ظلاله

سترا عَلى مثلي وَيمطر أَنعما

May you both remain a cloud spreading its shade,

as shelter over the likes of me, raining blessings.

ثم الصَلاة عَلى النَبي وآله

صلى وَسلم ربنا وَترحما

Then blessings upon the Prophet and his family;

may our Lord bless him, grant peace, and show mercy,

ماناح في عذب العذيب مغرد

اولاح برق الابرقين معتما

as long as a songbird laments by al-ʿUdhayb's sweet waters,

or al-Abraqayn's lightning flashes at nightfall.