1. هل البرقُ نجْدِيٌّ أم البُرْجُ مِتْكينُ

    وهل لخُفوقِ القلبِ يا سعدُ تَسكينُ

    Is the lightning from Najd, or is the tower Mitkin?

    And is there, O Sa'd, any soothing for the heart's throbbing?

  2. هو البَرقُ والبُرجُ اللَّذانِ تأَلَّقا

    بقلبٍ لديهِ حُبُّ أَهلِ اللِّوا دِينُ

    It is the lightning and the tower that have shone

    In a heart whose faith is love for the people of al-Liwa.

  3. إذا لأْلأَ البرقُ العِراقِيُّ في العُلى

    يذوبُ غَراماً والمُوَلَّهُ مَفْتونُ

    When the Iraqi lightning flashes in the heights,

    It melts with passion, while the love-bewildered one is entranced.

  4. ألا يا كِرامَ الحيِّ من أَرضِ واسِطٍ

    ويا من بِهِمْ قلبُ المُسَيْكينِ إِنِّينُ

    Ah, O noble folk of the clan from the land of Wasit,

    And O you for whom the poor little one's heart moans!

  5. أَنا ذلك العبدُ الَّذي دانَ حُبَّكم

    وأَنتم كما شئتُمْ أحِبَّتَنا كُنوا

    I am that servant who made love of you his faith;

    And you, our beloved ones, be as you wish.

  6. عليكُمْ لقلبي دَيْنُ وجدٍ مُؤجَّلٍ

    لَعَمْري إلى أن ينفَدَ العُمرُ مَدْيونُ

    You owe my heart a deferred debt of longing;

    By my life, my heart remains indebted until life runs out.

  7. لئِن بَعُدَتْ عنَّا نَواحي بِطاحِكُمْ

    فقد قَرُبَتْ والحمد للهِ مِتْكينُ

    Though the reaches of your broad valleys have grown distant from us,

    Yet Mitkin has drawn near, praise be to God.

  8. نَشُمُّ تُرابَ البابِ من مَشهدٍ بها

    فيا نِعْمَ بابٌ شامِخُ الشَّأنِ مأمونُ

    We breathe in the dust of the gate of a shrine there;

    And oh, what an excellent gate, lofty in rank and secure!

  9. مَقامُ وَلِيِّ اللهِ وابنِ وليِّهِ

    وجوهَرُ حالٍ بالبَراهينِ مَكْنونُ

    The shrine of God's saint and the son of His saint,

    And a jewel of spiritual state, concealed within the proofs.

  10. به سِرُّ أَصحابِ العَبا ضمنَ سِينِهِ

    أَجلْ فغُموضُ السِّرِّ موضِعُهُ السِّينُ

    In him lies the secret of the People of the Cloak, within his sīn;

    Yes, for the mystery of the secret resides in the letter sīn.

  11. فَتى البيتِ من آلِ الرِّفاعِيِّ أَحمدٍ

    ومن طَورُهُ في مشهَدِ الغيبِ مضْمونُ

    The youth of the House, from Ahmad al-Rifa'i's family,

    And he whose state is assured in the vision of the unseen:

  12. أَبو الهِمَمِ الصَّيَّادُ أَحمدُنا الَّذي

    أَفاضَ له روحَ الوَلايَةِ ياسِينُ

    Abu al-Himam, al-Sayyad, our Ahmad, to whom

    Ya-Sin poured forth the spirit of sainthood.

  13. قرأنا له في جَفْرِ حم آيَةٌ

    تُفسِّرُها بعدَ التِّلاوَةِ طَاسينُ

    We read for him a verse in the jafr of Ha-Mim;

    Ta-Sin explains it after the recitation.

  14. فُنونٌ أخذْناها عن الغَيْبِ في العَما

    فلا السَّعيُ مَهْضومٌ ولا الأَجرُ مَمْنونُ

    Arts we took from the unseen within the Cloud;

    So neither is striving slighted nor the reward cut off.

  15. خُذوا يا رِجالَ اللهِ عنَّا طَريقَنا

    وموتوا بِنا واحْيَوْا وأَسْرارَنا صونوا

    Take from us, O men of God, our path,

    And die through us and live, and guard our secrets.

  16. فنحنُ بَراهينُ النَّبيِّ بآلِهِ

    وجاحِدُنا في وَهْدَةِ الخِزْيِ مأْفونُ

    For we are the Prophet's proofs through his family;

    And whoever denies us is witless in the pit of disgrace.

  17. فقلْ لصُدورِ العارِفينَ تحَقَّقوا

    بمِنْهاجِنا طَوْراً وفي حُبِّنا دِينوا

    So tell the foremost gnostics: attain realization

    Through our way for a time, and make love of us your faith.

  18. فأَحمدُنا لم ينصَرِفْ لعَدالَةٍ

    ومعرفَةٍ ما شابَ عَلياهُ تَنْوينُ

    For our Ahmad was not fully declined, owing to justice

    And gnosis; no nunation has marred his eminence.

  19. ونحنُ لهُ الوُرَّاثُ في كلِّ حَضرَةٍ

    بأَعْتابِنا الدُّنيا بأَسْرارِنا الدِّينُ

    And we are his heirs in every presence;

    At our thresholds is the world; in our secrets is the faith.