Sol 6.1

  1. بدرُ حسنٍ راقَ العُيونَ شُهودُهْ

    وأعارَ الوُجودَ نوراً وُجودُهْ

    A full moon of beauty, whose sight delighted the eyes.

    And his presence lent existence light.

  2. أَبرزتْهُ يدُ العِنايَةِ لمَّا

    كُشِفت عنه في الغُيوبِ بُرودُهْ

    The hand of providence brought him forth when

    His mantles were lifted from him in the unseen realms.

  3. فانْجَلى ضمنَ بُرْجِهِ يتدلَّى

    بتَدانٍ أَعيَى الخَيالَ صُعودُهْ

    Then he shone within his celestial mansion, descending,

    With a nearness whose ascent baffled imagination.

  4. أيُّها المُجْهِدُ الجَنائبَ ليلاً

    سرْ رويداً فالفَجْرُ لاحتْ جُنودُهْ

    O you who drive the led mounts hard by night,

    Travel gently, for dawn's hosts have appeared.

  5. هزَّكَ الوجدُ الحَبيبِ وإِنَّ ال

    وجدَ سهلٌ ما لم يَرُعْكَ صُدودُهْ

    Ecstasy for the beloved stirred you; indeed,

    Ecstasy is easy so long as his rejection does not frighten you.

  6. لَذَّةٌ تُسبغُ الفُؤادَ بحالٍ

    يستَفِزُّ الشَّوقَ الكَمينَ وُرودُهْ

    A delight enfolds the heart in a state

    Whose arrival rouses hidden longing.

  7. لا دَهاكَ الهِجْرانُ فالهَجْرُ أَمرٌ

    عند أَهْلِ الهَوَى ثِقالٌ قُيودُهْ

    May separation never befall you, for estrangement is a thing

    Whose fetters weigh heavily upon lovers.

  8. أَيُّ حُبٍّ للقلبِ في أرضِ سَلْعٍ

    هاشِمِيٍّ شُمُّ المُلوكِ عَبيدُهْ

    What love the heart holds in the land of Sal‘

    For a Hashimite whose slaves are the loftiest kings!

  9. بحرُ برٍّ منه البُحورُ استفاضَتْ

    مدَداً أَغرقَ البَرِيَّاتِ جُودُهْ

    A sea of goodness, from whom the seas overflowed

    With succor; his generosity drowned all creation.

  10. جرَّدَ السِرَّ حُبُّهُ فحَبَاهُ

    كِسْوَةَ العِزِّ والعُلى تَجْريدُهْ

    Love of him stripped the inner self bare, bestowing on it

    The robe of honor and exaltation through that very stripping.

  11. إِنَّما بُرْعَةُ الوُجودِ كَعامٍ

    وهو في شِرعَةِ الحَقيقةِ عيدُهْ

    The splendor of existence is but like a year,

    And he, in the law of Reality, is its feast day.

  12. قيَّد القلبَ عشقُهُ وبهذا

    كلَّ آنٍ إِطْلاقُهُ تَقْييدُهْ

    Passionate love of him bound the heart, and thus

    At every moment its release is its binding.

  13. يا لمجدٍ حديثُهُ ملأَ الأَر

    ضَ وقد أَخلقَ الزَّمانَ جَديدُهْ

    O what glory, whose story has filled the

    Earth, and whose newness has worn Time out!

  14. جاءَ بالشَّرْعِ للأَنامِ عنِ الل

    هِ ولولاهُ ما أُقيمتُ حُدودُهْ

    He brought the Law to humankind from

    God; but for him, its bounds would not have been established.

  15. جدَّدتْهُ لنا بَنوهُ وهذا السَّ

    يلَ يجري مُعَرْبِداتٌ رُعودُهْ

    His sons renewed it for us, and this

    Torrent flows, its thunderclaps riotous.

  16. علَّمونا علمَ الحَقيقةِ عنه

    وبهم بينَنا خَفَقْنَ بُنودُهْ

    They taught us the knowledge of Reality from him,

    And through them its banners fluttered among us.

  17. حسبُنا منهُمُ الإِمامُ الرِّفاعِيِّ

    عَلَمُ الشَّرقِ شيخُهُ صِنديدُهْ

    Among them, Imam al-Rifa‘i suffices us—

    The standard of the East, its shaykh, its champion.

  18. سيِّدٌ آلُهُ شُموسُ المعالي

    وعُيونِ الآلِ الكِرامِ جُدُودُهْ

    A master whose family are suns of eminence,

    And whose forefathers are the choicest of the noble House.

  19. لاثِمُ الرَّاحةِ الشَّريفةِ في رحْ

    بٍ خَطيرٍ مأوى الأُسودِ وصِيدُهْ

    He who kissed the noble palm, in an

    August court whose threshold is a refuge for lions.

  20. يا لرُحْبٍ نورُ العُيونِ ثَراهُ

    وبروحي تاجُ الرُّؤوسِ صَعِيدُهْ

    O what a court, whose earth is the light of eyes!

    And my soul for its soil, the crown of heads!

  21. أَحمدُ الأَوْلِياءِ فيه جِهاراً

    جُدِّدَتْ من يدِ النَّبيِّ عُهُودُهْ

    Ahmad of the saints—there, openly,

    His pledges were renewed by the Prophet's hand.

  22. شرفٌ دونَ ذَيْلِهِ هامَةُ الشَّمْ

    سِ وصعبٌ على الحَسودِ جُحُودُهْ

    An honor beneath whose hem lies the head of the

    Sun, and which the envious find hard to deny.

  23. أَعظَمَتْهُ الأَقْطابُ جيلاً فجيلاً

    وعَلَتْ قمَّةَ الفَخارِ سُعُودُهْ

    The spiritual poles revered him, generation after generation,

    And his good fortunes rose above the summit of glory.

  24. قد نظمْنا مديحَهُ وهو بحرٌ

    طوَّقَتْ لَبَّةَ المَعالي عُقُودُهْ

    We have strung his praises in verse, and he is an ocean

    Whose necklaces have encircled the throat of eminence.

  25. سيِّدٌ بيتُهُ الحُسَيْنِيُّ غابٌ

    قد حمَتْ مشهَدَ الكَمالِ أُسُودُهْ

    A master whose Husayni house is a forest,

    Whose lions have guarded the shrine of perfection.

  26. رضيَ اللهُ عنه ما هزَّ أهلَ ال

    حالِ في طارِقِ الجَلالِ وُفُودُهْ

    May God be pleased with him, so long as those in

    Mystical states are stirred by the sudden visitations of Majesty,

  27. وزَها الرَّوضُ حينَ رُشَّ بِطَلٍّ

    وتدَلَّتْ بالانْكِسارِ وُرُودُهْ

    And the garden blooms when sprinkled with dew,

    And its roses droop in humility.