تدرع بدرع البغي يا طامس القلب

ستبصر ما تبدي الشؤون من الغيب

Arm yourself with the armor of oppression, O blind of heart.

You will see what affairs disclose of the unseen.

وصل كيفما تبغي فباعك قاصرٌ

وطرفك معكوف الشهود عن الدرب

And charge however you wish, for your reach is short.

And your gaze is turned away from witnessing the path.

عبثت بنا فاقعد كئيباً مطوحاً

على الجمر مهما رحت تمرح في الكرب

You toyed with us; so sit dejected, cast down,

on the embers, however much you go on frolicking in distress.

زعمت بأن تلوي عزائم مجدنا

كذبت ونحن القوم في حضرة الرب

You claimed that you would bend the resolves of our glory.

You lied—and we are the people in the Lord's presence.

وإنا بنو الزهراء آل محمدٍ

أئمة هذا الشأن في العجم والعرب

And indeed we are al-Zahra's sons, the House of Muhammad,

the imams of this calling among non-Arabs and Arabs.

أفضنا علوم الحق في كل بقعةٍ

فسارت بها الربكان في الشرق الغرب

We poured forth knowledge of the Truth in every region,

and riders journeyed with it through East and West.

لنا بعلي رونق المجد والعلا

وارث معاني طوري الوهب والسلب

Through Ali, ours is the splendor of glory and exaltation,

and the inheritance of the meanings of the two states of bestowal and withdrawal.

تصرفنا سارٍ وآيات حالنا

مسطرة الأحكام في أشرف الكتب

Our sway pervades, and the signs of our state

have their rulings inscribed in the noblest books.

ترانا بثوب العجز والفقر درعنا

وينفذ منا لسهم في البعد والقرب

You see us robed in helplessness, and poverty is our armor,

and an arrow from us pierces far and near.

نجر على هام المجرة ذيلنا

ونقضي بأمر اللَه في السلم والحرب

We drag our train over the heights of the Milky Way,

and we decree by God's command in peace and war.

تعالت لنا في سدرة المجد ربتةٌ

علت عن مقام الفرد والغوث والقطب

A rank has risen high for us in the lote-tree of glory;

it has risen above the station of the Solitary One, the Succor, and the Pole.

وتفخر أدوار المعالي بنظمنا

مرفرفةً بين التعجب والعجب

And the cycles of exalted rank take pride in our verse,

fluttering between astonishment and self-admiration.

ونحن شموس اللَه في الكون لم تزل

لنا بين أصحاب الوحا دولة القلب

And we are God's suns in the cosmos; unceasing is

our dominion of the heart among the bearers of revelation.

نقيم بإذن اللَه من بات مقعدا

ونقعد من قد قام في الموقف الصعب

We raise, by God's leave, whoever has lain crippled,

and we seat whoever has stood at the difficult station.

ونقطع مغروراً ونوصل عاجزاً

ونسقط مختالاً ونرفع ذا رعب

And we cut off the self-deluded and bring the helpless into union,

and we cast down the swaggerer and raise the terror-stricken.

فمنا وعنا الخارقات ونهضة ال

قلوب إلى يا فوخ دائرة الوهب

For from us and through us come miracles, and the ascent of the

hearts to the crown of the circle of bestowal.

أجل نحن حزب اللَه في طي كونه

فأنعم بذاك الحزب في الكون من حزب

Yes, we are God's party within the folds of His cosmos;

so how splendid a party is that party in the cosmos!

متى ما دعونا اللَه في حل مشكلٍ

أتتنا فيوض الإستجابة كالسحب

Whenever we call upon God to solve a difficulty,

outpourings of response come to us like clouds.

بنا ينصر الباري ضعيفاً عويجزاً

ويقهر جباراً تضمخ بالذنب

Through us the Creator aids a weak, helpless little one,

and subdues a tyrant steeped in sin.

ويمحو بعزم العون آثار خصمنا

فينحط من بيض المنابر للترب

And with resolute aid He erases the traces of our foe,

so he falls from the white pulpits to the dust.

فرح يا سقيم القلب واعبث بنا وخض

وكن هدفاً للهم والغم العيب

So go, O sick of heart: toy with us and plunge in,

and be a target for anxiety, grief, and disgrace.

أشمت هزبراً وهو في غباه انبرى

خوفاً خفوق القلب من نبجة الكلب

Have you seen a lion, in its thicket, come forth

fearful, its heart fluttering at a dog's bark?

نسيت أبا الأشراف طه وقومه

فمت إنهم من حضرة اللَه في قرب

You forgot the father of the nobles—Taha—and his people.

So die: indeed, they are close to God's presence.