1. أَمن تذكر أَهل البان والبان

    أَم من تبدل جيران بجيران

    Is it from recalling the people of al-Ban and the bān trees,

    or from exchanging neighbors for other neighbors,

  2. جعلت دمعك وَقفا في محاجره

    يقبض في الخد هتانا بهتان

    that you have made your tears a perpetual endowment in their sockets,

    collected upon the cheek, downpour after downpour?

  3. حالى كَمالك أَشتاق النَسيم فَلَو

    هب النَسيم لحياني واحياني

    My state is like yours; I yearn for the breeze—if only

    the breeze blew, it would greet me and revive me.

  4. اني اذا غرد القمرى في سحر

    بذى الاراكة أَسهاني وَأَلهاني

    Indeed, when the turtledove sings before dawn

    at Dhu al-Arakah, it makes me forget and distracts me.

  5. وَكلما لاح برق الغور مُبتَسِما

    في الفَور حرك أَشجاني وَأَشجاني

    And whenever al-Ghawr's lightning flashes, smiling,

    it immediately stirs my sorrows and saddens me.

  6. وَقفت في الحي بعد الظاعنين فان

    أَرى سوى الوحش أَو آثار غزلان

    I stood in the encampment after the travelers departed; how could I

    see anything but wild beasts or gazelles' tracks?

  7. يا دمنة حلها البَلوى فعوّضها

    عصما وَعفرا بقضبان وَكُثبان

    O ruined campsite, calamity settled upon you and gave you in exchange

    white-marked ibexes and pale gazelles for boughs and sand dunes.

  8. وَطالَما كنت مصطافى وَمرتبعى

    وَحيث مألف اخواني وَخلاني

    How long you were my summer retreat and my spring abode,

    and the gathering place of my brothers and dear friends.

  9. فَكَم احن حنين الثاكلات عَلى

    نجد وَتنجي بالدمع أَكفاني

    How often I yearn, with the yearning of bereaved mothers, for

    Najd, while my shrouds are [perhaps: moistened] with tears.

  10. لا وَالَّذي نصب الاجبال راسية

    فرد البقاء وكل غيره فاني

    No! By Him who set the mountains firmly,

    alone everlasting, while everything besides Him perishes,

  11. ما طالَ لَيلى وَلَيلى في الغوير وَلا

    أَو هي فؤادي هوى نعم وَنعمان

    it was not Layla in al-Ghuwayr who lengthened my night, nor

    did love for Nu'm and Nu'man weaken my heart,

  12. الاشغفت بخير الخلق من مضر

    مولى القَريقين قحطان وَعَدنان

    but my devotion to the best of creation, from Mudar,

    master of the two peoples, Qahtan and Adnan,

  13. هداية اللَه في الدنيا وَخيرته

    من خلفه فَهوَ هادى كل حَيران

    God's guidance in this world and His chosen one

    from His creation, the guide of every bewildered soul.

  14. وَاللَه ما حملت أُنثى وَلا وَضَعَت

    كَمِثلِ أَحمَد من قاص وَلا دانى

    By God, no woman ever carried or gave birth to

    one like Ahmad, among those far away or near.

  15. مهذب شرف اللَه الوجود به

    وَخصه بدلالات وَبُرهان

    Refined in character, through whom God honored existence,

    and singled him out with signs and proof.

  16. في أُمة كان هاديها وَليسَ لَها

    الا عبادة أَصنام وَأَوثان

    Among a people whose guide he was, who had nothing

    but the worship of statues and idols.

  17. سر السرارة لب اللب من مضر

    مُستغرق الفضل فرد ماله ثانى

    The essence of the choicest, the kernel of the kernel, from Mudar,

    encompassing all excellence, unique, with no equal.

  18. حامى الحمى سيد السادات أَشجَع مِن

    في اللَه جاهد في سر واعلان

    Defender of the sanctuary, lord of lords, braver than any who

    strove for God, in secret and openly.

  19. لَم يَبقَ لِلشرك عونا يطمئن به

    وَلا نَصير الَّذي بَغى وَعدوان

    No support remained for idolatry to find security in,

    nor any helper for those given to oppression and aggression.

  20. واصبحت ملة الاسلام ظاهرة

    بالحق فالناس في أَمن وايمان

    And the religion of Islam became triumphant

    through truth, so the people lived in safety and faith.

  21. وَبدل الغي رشداً وَالضلال هدى

    في الارض وَالدين فردا بعد اديان

    He changed waywardness to right conduct, and error to guidance,

    upon the earth, and made religion one after many religions.

  22. آياته الغرفى التَوراة بينة

    وَفي زبور وانجيل وَفُرقان

    His radiant signs are clear in the Torah,

    and in the Psalms, the Gospel, and the Furqan.

  23. كَم أخبر تنابه من قبل مبعثه

    فينا بَشائر أَحبار وَرُهبان

    How often were we told of him, before he was sent,

    by glad tidings among us from rabbis and monks.

  24. مَتى تجلت لَنا أَنوار مولده

    مِن الحِجاز إِلى بصرى وَكنعان

    When the lights of his birth shone forth for us,

    from the Hijaz to Bosra and Canaan,

  25. تَتابعَت منه آيات الظهور فَما

    خمود نار وَماشق بايوان

    signs of his manifestation followed one another—what of

    the extinction of a fire, and what of a cleft in a palace hall?

  26. وَمعجزات بعد الرمل لَو كتبت

    لَم يحصها ماء سيحان وَجيحان

    And miracles as numerous as the sand—if they were written down,

    the waters of Sayhan and Jayhan could not record them all.

  27. يا صاح ان خفت في الأَيام نائبة

    من ظالم قاهِر أَو جور سلطان

    O friend, if in the passing days you fear a calamity

    from a domineering oppressor or a ruler's injustice,

  28. وَلَم تَجِد في الوَرى حرا له كَرَم

    يرجى نداه وَلا صفح عَن الجاني

    and find among humankind no noble person of generosity,

    whose bounty you can hope for, or who will pardon an offender,

  29. فلذ بمن سبح الحصباء في يده

    واقصد كَريم السَجايا مطلق العانى

    then seek refuge with him in whose hand the pebbles glorified God,

    and seek the noble-natured liberator of the captive:

  30. محمد سيد الكونين وَالثقلي

    نِ وَالفَريقين من عجم وَعربان

    Muhammad, master of the two worlds and the two weighty kinds,

    and of the two peoples, non-Arabs and Arabs.

  31. وَقل بفضل ضجعه فأنهما

    أَلسيدان المَجيدان الرَفيعان

    Affirm the excellence of the two who rest beside him, for they are

    the two glorious, exalted masters.

  32. وَثق بحبل شهيد الدار تلوهما

    شيخ الكَرامة عثمان بن عَفان

    And trust in the rope of the martyr of the house, next after those two,

    the elder of honor, Uthman ibn Affan.

  33. ثم أبلغ الغاية القصوى أَبوحَسَن

    وابتاه أَيضا وَعماه الكَريمان

    Then Abu Hasan, supreme in attaining the utmost goal,

    and his two sons as well, and his two noble uncles.

  34. أَئمة زين اللَه الوجود بهم

    غر مهذبة أَبناء غران

    Imams through whom God adorned existence,

    radiant and refined, sons of radiant men.

  35. لا غرو ان جَعَلوني من تفضلهم

    سلمان بينهم من بعد سلمان

    No wonder if, through their generosity, they have made me

    a Salman among them, after Salman,

  36. أَو شرفوا قدر مَدحي وَهو شيمتهم

    أَو بشروني بالحسنى كحسان

    or have honored the worth of my praise—for such is their nature—

    or have given me glad tidings of the best reward, like Hassan.

  37. الحَمد لِلَّه هم ركنى وهم عضدى

    وَهم نجاتي وَهم روحى وَريحاني

    Praise be to God! They are my pillar and my supporting arm,

    and they are my salvation, my spirit, and my sweet basil.

  38. يا سَيدي يا رَسول اللَه يا أَمَلي

    يا موئلي يا مَلاذي يوم يَلقاني

    O my master, O Messenger of God, O my hope,

    O my refuge, O my shelter on the day that comes to meet me,

  39. هبنى بجاهك ما قدمت من زال

    جودا وَرجح بفضل منك ميزاني

    by your rank, grant me pardon for the lapses I have committed,

    generously, and with your favor make my scales weigh heavier.

  40. واسمع دُعائي واكشف ما يساورني

    من الخطوب وَنفس كل أَحزاني

    And hear my prayer and remove what besets me

    of calamities, and relieve all my sorrows.

  41. فأَنتَ أَقرَب من تَرجى عواطفه

    عِندي وان بعدت داري وَأَوطاني

    For you are the nearest of those whose kindness is hoped for

    to me, even though my home and homelands are far away.

  42. وَفيك يا ابن خَليل اللَه يوم غَدا

    أَلوذ من سوء زلاتي وَعصياني

    And in you, O son of God's intimate Friend, tomorrow

    I seek refuge from the evil of my lapses and my disobedience.

  43. نَوالك الجم يَطويني وَينشرنى

    بالمكرمات وَعين اللطف ترعاني

    Your abundant bounty enfolds me and unfolds me

    with honors, and the eye of kindness watches over me.