1. Convey my yearning to those who have captured my heart,
Even though they've been harsh and severed the bonds of affection.

2. They made the blows of fate assail me
With its arrows, spilling all the patience I held.

3. They tread the fierce heat of sorrows,
When the paths of betrayal and disloyalty they did take.

4. Yet one who does wrong may still gain praise,
If he fulfills his word while night's darkness lies opaque.

5. To us has risen a sun of wisdom,
It holds within fortune, and its orbit is guidance.

6. Knowledge has revealed it, even as draco did fade,
Fade but the matters of guidance from its affairs do not break.

7. Sorrow hears keener than any hearing and severs lives
Swifter than fate, more scorching than branding irons at its wake.

8. Its rising has uprooted doubt's brushwood,
See, sanctities of illusion it does violate!

9. It has dispelled the darknesses of our nights, its rays have shone
After disorder had wrought chaos on our days, oh what a mistake!

10. Whoever shunned it while it covered
The eyes of the simpleton lost in his confusions opaque

11. I am for its radiance a kohl'd-eyed lover
And for its love immersed in the life of faith at its wake.

12. By the honored bond of the Prophet's protection
The fairest of bonds, the Joseph-like tie I do take.

13. That Imam who labors to heal those
Whom the two illnesses, ignorance and wantonness, did break.

14. In a garden and pool of his affability
Heart's-ease and smiles can be hunted, no need for a lake.

15. By the rising of a radiance from the morn of his joy
Rancor and bitterness, both murky obscurities, break.

16. We have swum, thanks to his knowledge, in an ocean of seas,
As fish swim in the midst of a swelling and tossing lake.

17. A sea whose waves surge with meaning, its shells are wisdom,
Its pearls, devotions - Would that my hands could partake!

18. Upon pools from his overflow, barrels once empty
Now brim for the thirsty and those from whom blessings did break.

19. When understanding calls out one of his insights,
Secrets answer its summons and rapidly come, wide awake.

20. The meadows of Bukhari were stirred by zephyrs of his thought
While he was empowered and aided - all fetters did break.

21. From the scent of his hidden mysteries then wafted a fragrance
As if the scent's enjoyer has become an angel in his wake!

22. From him we gained what no leading saint or prophet attained
Tho' they be guided or kingly - such bounty we did take.

23. So we thank God with thanks that grant us more insight
By it veils of gnosis are lifted, more knowledge we awake.

24. O you whose soul is a breeze from the meadows, stir to life
A neglected ruin 'mid Paradise' gardens, rejuvenate!

25. Visit Bukhari's tomb, for it contains forever
The incense of glory kindled devotion did make.

26. Give him the tidings, after purest salutations redolent
With perfumes crowding the lane of musk so opaque,

27. That if he is told - as is his due - it would waft as a cloud
Joy to his soul and gladden the tomb that his corpse did forsake.

28. Say: "We have read your 'School Bringing-together' upon
What your dictation poured on us oceans to make,

29. Seas replenished from oceans - their interwoven depths! -
From the immaculate Imams of decisive speech and weight.

30. They protected the faith, courageous and wise,
From caprice, and in the arena of sublime things set their stake.

31. The pleasure of God passed over them in the night
To bless their tombs when they met their predestined fate.

32. God bless those who gained what they left behind
And forged anew what they hammered, and interwove what they did make.

33. You, insightful son of Mas'ud, the radiance of guidance,
Through your insight success' coinage is struck newly opaque.

34. When the palm of your knowledge unfolds, night's heavy curtain
Of realization falls away, dawn begins to break."

35. Clasp to your breast what thought has wrought for you here,
Thought that in ardent love's transports all fetters did break,

36. From you I gained the solutions and learned the phrasings,
So do not blame me if they should fail to fully awake!

37. God keep you, that we might remain through your remaining,
O you whom no goal ever limits once you undertake!