1. Your side is a source of benefit,
And people gain advantages through your benevolence.

2. Happy is he who strives to behold you,
For which sights yearn to your chanting.

3. When the pilgrims head to you, it is facilitated for them
Even if they do not ask you for their purposes.

4. Good tidings are assured for one who bows imploring,
From your grace - be he bowing or prostrating.

5. The youth have consecrated their faces in it,
As have the maidens, the married, and the old.

6. It is the pure, copious spring, thronged,
So send it back, for without your company, nothing holds it back.

7. I came to it while my hopes glistened,
And returned while those hopes were realized.

8. Oh, what despair I reached its conclusion in,
And hardship for the locks of ease what keys!

9. Sweeter than clear water falling
On the thirsty liver, while the water is cool.

10. The noble offspring of the best of mankind, Nafisa,
Her lineage ennobled, her glory made good.

11. If the sun of day is denied its illumination,
None amongst mankind can deny your merit.

12. Your pure fathers adorned supremacy,
The beads of the necklace of glory their gems.

13. You inherited the traits and knowledge of al-Mustafa,
Thus your virtues are one if not for prophethood.

14. No scholar freely gives but through your knowledge,
No ascetic constricts himself but by your abstinence.

15. Cognizance whose mysteries continuously pour forth
To the glorious one from Ahmad's house, the glorious one.

16. His face shines as if his praise
Were rising to the dawn or rising to a star.

17. Whenever an imam of guidance from them passes,
An imam of guidance comes to call to Allah, rightly-guided.

18. The light of prophethood appears on his face,
By it, sights are manifested for eyes.

19. The seas of knowledge pour forth from a droplet of its clouds,
Raining upon him, so the watering places are wholesome for the visitor.

20. He saw the adornment of life as delusion, so he shunned it,
For him, none reproaches his merit but the envious.

21. It is as if, without him, the sublime domains
Are lands devoid of their inhabitants and covenants.

22. Whenever his deeds and knowledge are mentioned,
Zayd, Bakr, and Khalid concur with it.

23. One present and idle are not equal in merit,
Nor one sitting during battle, and one striving.

24. Say to the Banu Zahra - and speech is nearness -
A tongue falters concerning them, and so do poems.

25. My heart loved you, so my speech argues
To champion you and contends.

26. Is love of you for people anything but a doctrine
Built on a foundation of love for Allah?

27. A belief empty of love and affection for you
The family of the Prophet is corrupt.

28. I hope my loyalty will join me with you
And the distant goal will draw near.

29. The elite of a people are their servants,
And surplus letters of speech are but extras.

30. People who disputed your mastery have ransomed you
So I did not know if they were masters or slaves.

31. They intended you evil, but harmed their own souls
And plotting returns to ruin the plotter.

32. If the life of this world inclines to them, then whoever
Renounces its sham will be secure from them.

33. Had you been its sons, it would not have detested you -
No newborn is detested by the parent!

34. When I remember the events which transpired,
Judgments carried out that on my side are graves,

35. And memories renew calamities for me,
Which I endure in the darkness of night as I endure,

36. Is this the manner of address while swords are sheathed
And no one stands to defend his kin?

37. It has swollen to become a disgrace, while eyes stare
In consternation, and the heedless are shrouds.

38. The day you were bereaved, your blood's measure was diminished
While blood flows and tears remain frozen.

39. What strife after the Prophet by which
Faith is demolished and mosques constructed!

40. After the son of Imran, his people were not tried
By what they worshiped except that the worshipper perish.

41. Just so did Allah intend for you and them,
And none can oppose what he desires.

42. Had that not spelled sheer good fortune for you, not them,
No sword would be sheathed.

43. You are people from whom impurity is lifted,
So you have no concerns, even if a warrior is valiant.

44. When content with Allah or angry for Him,
The near and remote are equal to them.

45. The ignited embers of enmity are
The same to them on the carpet of truth and doused.

46. I have presented you, all of you, with praise, and for each
The Book of Allah has presented in praise provisions.

47. It clarified to me - did what came with it,
Of noble character for you and your glories, come?

48. Were it not for your pardoning us for praising you,
Poems would rebuke me for my faults.

49. I gained nothing through trade with other than you,
Whose merchandise with people is so insignificant.

50. I set about seeking a people among them and was as if
I sought a pillar that my words do not ascend.

51. Shall I seek aid from a people other than you
When deprivation has barred them from giving aid?

52. Whoever found a piercing nail,
Will not strike one that is brittle.

53. It suffices me to praise the daughter of al-Hasan whom
Generosity, glory, nobility, and high birth befit.

54. I am sending her necklaces of my praise
Permissible - their gift to her and necklaces.

55. She is the firm handle, she is sublime rank,
She is the utmost goal for one who aims.

56. It is as if when I recite in praise of her among people,
I seek what is misplaced of the mention of noble deeds.

57. My lady, I have hoped in you, declaring
What I possess of the jewels of fine traits.

58. The eyes of my hopes look to you
For what I am used to of your exceeding merit.

59. No people were stricken with drought from whose side
A guide to the pasture of hopes from your side came.

60. Were it not for the dew of your palms, no barren land would green,
Nor would anything budge from the land of virtues, frozen.

61. To Allah I complain, O daughter of al-Hasan, for that
Which I faced, and if I complain, I am one who praises.

62. How can I not complain to the family of Muhammad
Of afflictions under which the watchtowers narrow for me?

63. Who can divert the vicissitudes of time from me
And avert the sorrows of my heart from me?

64. A defiant devil from the soul has conquered me,
As has a refractory devil from misery.

65. Woe to a heart whose sky
Remains a seat for the devils of afflictions!

66. My God, the Hearer of complaint and Reliever of plight
When calamities befall the worlds.

67. He who guided the suckling infant though
Neither the strength of mind appeared nor the arm strengthened.

68. He who quenched the thirst of beasts though
Their watering places prevented them from hunting prey.

69. He whose subtle care rescues ships at sea,
Though they be fragile, nay collapsing.

70. He who is the seven oft-repeated
And He who holds the vast earth stable.

71. Your treasuries of favor call us
To Your provision, if the generous withholds favor.

72. Neither is that door from those treasuries closed,
Nor does good from those treasuries ebb.

73. I called You out of poverty and need to You,
And each finds nothing to avail patience.

74. Consciences have confided to You what they contain,
And You witness what consciences conceal.

75. We called You compelled, my God, so answer!
You never fail to keep Your promise.

76. We have no succor but You, no refuge
We resort to in hardship and recur to.

77. Ordain for us the good of which You are worthy,
For none diverts what You ordain.

78. Pardon the sin which drives
To Your fire unless You pardon and guide.

79. Connect our pact to al-Mustafa, his pact
Is to us, my Lord, connection and return to You.

80. Blessings of Allah be upon him so long as Suraya slopes
Stretch down to him and mounts for the Rider kneel.