هب النسيم فما ست منه أشجار — Al Burai

هب النَسيم فَما ست منه أَشجار

وَغردت في بشام الشيح أَطيار

The breeze blew, and trees swayed in it.

And birds sang among balsam and wormwood.

وَضاحك البرق أَزهار الرياض فمن

فضى مذهبها نور وَأَنوار

And lightning exchanged smiles with the meadow flowers, and from

Their silvery gilding came light and blossoms.

فهزني الشوق لا دَمعي يكف وَلا

قَلبي اذا رمت منه الصبر صبار

Longing shook me; neither do my tears cease, nor

Does my heart stay patient when I ask patience of it.

وَطال عَهدي بدار كنت ساكنها

قد حال من دونها نجد وَأَغوار

Long has it been since I saw a home where I once lived;

Najd and deep valleys have come between me and it.

فَلَيت شعري هَل الايام تسعدني

بوصل قوم نأت بي عنهم الدار

If only I knew whether the days would favor me

With reunion with people from whom my dwelling has kept me far away.

احن وجدا وَتذكارا لهم وَبهم

وَالحب اقتله وَجد وَتذكار

I yearn with longing and remembrance, for them and because of them;

And love is deadliest in longing and remembrance.

يا جيرة الحي كَيفَ المنجدون وَهَل

بالشعب في سمرات الحي سمار

O neighbors of the encampment, how fare those who went to Najd, and are there

Night-talkers in the ravine among the encampment's acacias?

وَهَل المت صبا نجده مودعة

للظاعنين وَسارَت اينما ساروا

And did the east breeze of their Najd alight, bidding farewell

To those departing, and travel wherever they traveled?

واين حلوا من الوادي وَهَل ضربت

لهم عَلى العلم الغربي اخدار

And where in the valley did they settle, and were pitched

For them on the western hill curtained tents?

يا هائم القلب ثق بالصبر معتصما

فكل شيء له حد وَمقدار

O love-bewildered heart, trust in patience and hold fast to it,

For everything has its limit and measure.

وان بليت باحكام الزَمان فَلا

تجزع فللدهر اقبال وادبار

And if you are tried by the decrees of time, do not

Despair: fortune has its advances and reversals.

واعلم بانك جار الاهدلي وَفي

ذمام محترم يحمى به الجار

And know that you are al-Ahdali's neighbor, within

An inviolable covenant by which a neighbor is protected.

فانزل بتربته ايما نزلت وَسل

أَهذه طيبة وَالخلق زوار

So alight at his tomb wherever you alight, and ask:

Is this Taybah, with the people coming as visitors,

ام مشهد الكعبة البيت الحَرام وَفي

اكنافها الوفد حجاج وَعمار

Or the sanctuary of the Kaaba, the Sacred House, with

Delegations in its precincts, pilgrims on hajj and umrah?

بجاه من شرفت هذى البلادبه

كَما بأحمد قدما شرف الغار

Through the honor of him by whom these lands were ennobled,

As the cave was honored through Ahmad long ago.

سَقى الكَثيب كَثيب السدر صوب حيا

غمامه بصنوف الخير مطار

May a downpour of life-giving rain water the dune, the dune of lote trees,

Its cloud raining down goodness of every kind.

فَفيه سر من الاسرار مبتهج

في سمت كل ولي منه اسرار

For within it is a joyful secret among the secrets;

In every saint's bearing are secrets from him.

مهذب شرف اللَه الوجود به

وانما ولد المختار مختار

A man of refinement, through whom God ennobled existence;

And the Chosen One's offspring can only be chosen.

ظل ظَليل وَغيث يَستَغيث به

عجم وَعرب وَبدو ثم حضار

A sheltering shade, and rain whose relief is sought by

Non-Arabs and Arabs, nomads and townsfolk.

له الحماية في الدنيا وَيوم غد

تمحي به عن جَميع الخلق أَوزار

His is protection in this world; and on the morrow

Through him the sins of all creation are erased.

وَلَو أَشارَ إِلى نار السَعير خبت

اذ ذاكَ وانطفأت من نوره النار

And were he to point toward the fire of the Blaze, it would subside

At once, and the fire be quenched by his light.

وَلَو دَعا بجماد الارض معجزة

لباه ترب واشجار واحجار

And were he to summon earth's lifeless matter as a miracle,

Dust, trees, and stones would answer him.

وَكَم له مِن كَرامات اذا قرنت

بالبحر تخجله وَالبحر تيار

And how many miraculous gifts are his which, if compared

With the sea, would shame it, though the sea is a surging flood!

حلت محاسنه الايام وامتلأت

منها جهات كَثيرات واقطار

His virtues adorned the days, and filled

With them were many regions and lands.

وَفي المراوعة الغراء شهب هدى

هم في حظائر قدس اللَه أَزهار

And in radiant al-Marawi‘ah are shooting stars of guidance;

They are flowers in God's holy enclosures.

آل النَبي وأَبناء الوصي فهم

في الارض وَالعرض سادات واخيار

The Prophet's family and the sons of the Legatee—they are

Masters and righteous men on earth and at the Presentation.

قوم سموا برسول اللَه مرتبة

فكل افعالهم في المجد آثار

A people who rose in rank through God's Messenger;

So all their deeds are monuments of glory.

سبعالمثاني ثناء يمدحون به

وَمدح غيرهم سجع واشعار

The Seven Oft-Repeated Verses are praise with which they are extolled,

While praise of others is rhymed prose and poetry.

وَفيهم الفرد يحيى الاريحى له

فوق الخَليقة اخطار واقدار

And among them is peerless, magnanimous Yahya, whose

Honors and dignities rise above all creation.

بدر منير امام عالم علم

سيف من السر ماضي الحدبتار

A radiant full moon, an imam, a scholar, a beacon,

A sword from the mystery, keen-edged and cleaving.

مبارك الوجه برحى فيض نائله

وَمنه تقضي لبانات واوطار

Blessed of countenance, his bounty's outpouring is hoped for,

And through him needs and desires are fulfilled.

أَما وآل عليّ الاهدلي فهم

لخلعة الكون تطريز وانوار

Indeed, by the family of Ali al-Ahdali, they are

Embroidery and lights upon the robe of the universe.

لا بعت شعرا نَفيسا بالخَسيس وَلَو

هلكت جوعا فللاشعار اسعار

May I never sell precious poetry for a paltry price, even if

I perish of hunger, for poems have their prices.

وَلا تعاظمى في مدح منصبهم

مال وَدار وَدينار وَقنطار

Nor do I count as great, in praising their station,

Wealth, a house, a dinar, or a vast sum.

بل اطلب الخلد في ادنى محبتهم

وَما عَلى اذا احببتهم عار

Rather, I seek eternal bliss in even the slightest love for them;

And no shame falls on me if I love them.

فهم ثمالى وَمنهم نصرتي وَغنى

فقري وَقبلة قصدي اينما صاروا

For they are my refuge; from them come my aid and relief

From my poverty; they are my purpose's qiblah wherever they go.

اولاك ان عاهَدوا اوفوا وان وهبوا

اغنوا وان يستشار وانصره شاروا

They, if they pledge, fulfill; and if they give,

They enrich; and if consulted for help, they give counsel.

كأَنَّما الكون شخص ميت وَهم

للكون روح واسماع وابصار

As though the universe were a lifeless body, and they

Were its spirit, its hearing, and its sight.

وَلَم يَزَل جارهم يحمي وَسائلهم

يعطى وَعارضهم بالخير مطار

Their neighbor remains protected, and whoever petitions them

Is given gifts, and their cloud showers goodness.