هي دار غيبته فحي قبابها — Haidar Alheli

هي دارُ غيبتهِ فحيِّ قِبابَها

والثم بأجفانِ العيونِ ترابَها

This is the abode of his occultation; greet its domes,

and kiss its dust with the eyelids of your eyes.

بُذلت لزائرِها ولو كُشف الغطا

لرأيتَ أَملاكَ السما حجّابها

It is freely offered to its visitor; were the veil lifted,

you would see heaven's angels as its doorkeepers.

ولو النجومُ الزهرُ تملِكُ أَمرها

لهوت تُقَبِّلُ دهرها أعتابها

And if the radiant stars controlled their own course,

they would swoop down, kissing its thresholds all their days.

سعُدت بمنتظرِ القيام ومَن به

عقدت عيونُ رجائه أهدابها

It is blessed by him whose rising is awaited, and by him on whom

the eyes of hope in him have fastened their lashes.

وَسَمت على أمِّ السما بمواثلٍ

وأبيكَ ما حوتِ السما أضرابها

And it rose above the mother of heaven through monuments

whose like, by your father, heaven has never held:

بضرايحٍ حَجبت أَباه وجدَّه

وبغيبةٍ ضَربت عليه حِجابها

through shrines that veil his father and grandfather,

and an occultation that has drawn its veil over him.

دارٌ مقدَّسةٌ وخيرُ أئمَّةٍ

فَتح الإِلهُ بهم إليه بابها

A sanctified abode, and the finest of imams—

through them God opened its door to Himself.

لهمُ على الكرسيِّ قبّة سؤددٍ

عَقدَ الإِلهُ بعرشهِ أطنابها

Upon the Seat they have a dome of eminence,

whose guy ropes God fastened to His Throne.

كانوا أظلَّةَ عرشهِ وبدينِه

هَبطوا لدائرةٍ غَدوا أقطابها

They were the shadows of His Throne, and bearing His faith

they descended to a circle whose poles they became.

صَدعوا عن الربِّ الجليل بأمرهِ

فغدوا لكلِّ فضيلةٍ أربابها

They proclaimed, for the majestic Lord, His command,

and became the masters of every virtue.

فهدوا بني الألبابِ لكن حيَّروا

بظهورِ بعض كمالِهم ألبابها

They guided men of understanding, yet bewildered

their minds by revealing some of their perfection.

لا غروَ إن طابت أرومة مجدِها

فنمت بأكرمِ مَغرسٍ أطيابها

No wonder the stock of its glory is pure,

and its pure scions grew in the noblest soil.

فاللهُ صوَّر آدماً من طينةٍ

لهم تخيَّر محضَها ولُبابها

For God formed Adam from clay

whose purest substance and essence He chose for them.

وبراهمُ غُرراً من النُطفِ التي

هي كلَّها غررٌ وسَل أحسابها

And He fashioned them as radiant ones from seed-drops

that are all radiant; ask their ancestral honors:

تُخبركَ أنَّهمُ جروا في أظهرٍ

طابت وطهَّر ذو العُلى أصلابها

they will tell you they passed through backs

made pure, whose loins the Exalted One purified.

وتناسلوا فإذا استهلَّ لهم فتًى

نسجت مكارمُه له جلبابها

And they begot descendants; whenever a son first cried among them,

his virtues wove their mantle for him.

حتَّى أتى الدنيا الذي سيهزُّها

حتَّى يدُكُّ على السهولِ هضابها

Until there came into the world the one who will shake it,

until he crushes its hills down onto its plains.

وسينتضي للحربِ محتلِب الطُلى

حتَّى يُسيلَ بشفرتيه شعابها

And for war he will unsheathe a milker of necks,

until, with its two edges, he sets its ravines flowing.

ولسوف يُدركُ حيثُ ينهضُ طالباً

تِرَةً له جعل الإلهُ طِلابَها

And surely, when he rises, he will attain what he seeks:

vengeance owed him, whose pursuit God ordained.

هو قائمٌ بالحقِّ كم من دعوةٍ

هزَّتهُ لولا ربُّه لأجابها

He stands for truth; how many a summons

has stirred him—had it not been for his Lord, he would have answered it.

سعُدت بمولدِهِ المباركِ ليلةٌ

حَدرَ الصباحُ عن السرورِ نقابها

Blessed by his auspicious birth was a night

whose veil the morning drew back, revealing joy.

وزهت به الدنيا صبيحةَ طرَّزت

أيدي المسرَّةِ بالهنا أثوابها

And through him the world shone on a morning when

the hands of gladness embroidered its robes with bliss.

رجعت إلى عصرِ الشبيبةِ غضَّةً

من بعد ما طوت السنينُ شبابها

It returned, fresh, to the age of youth,

after the years had folded its youth away.

فاليومَ أبهجت الشريعةُ بالذي

ستنالُ عند قِيامِه آرابها

So today the sacred Law rejoices in the one through whom

it will attain its desires when he rises.

قد كدَّرت منها المشاربَ عُصبةٌ

جعل الإِلهُ من السرابِ شرابها

A faction has muddied its watering places;

God has made mirage their drink.

يا من يُحاولُ أن يقومَ مهنّياً

إنهض بلغتَ من الأُمور صوابها

O you who would rise to offer congratulations,

arise—you have found the right course in affairs.

وأشر إلى من لا تشير يدُ العُلى

لِسواهُ إن هيَ عَدَّدت أربابها

And point to him: the hand of eminence points

to no one else when it numbers its lords.

هو ذلك الحسنُ الزكيُّ المجتبى

من ساد هاشمَ شِيبها وشبابها

He is that Hasan, the Pure, the Chosen,

who was lord of Hashim, its gray-haired and its young.

جَمعَ الإِلهُ به مزايا مجدِها

ولها أعادَ بعصرِه أحقابها

God gathered in him the distinctions of its glory,

and in his age restored to it its bygone eras.

نشِرت بمن قد ضمَّ طيَّ ردائِه

أطهارَها أطيابها أنجابها

It was revived through him, who gathered within his mantle's fold

its purest, its choicest, its noblest.

وله مآثرُ ليس تُحصى لو غدت

للحشرِ أملاكُ السما كتّابها

His great deeds cannot be counted, even were

heaven's angels their scribes until the Resurrection.

أنَّى وهُنَّ مآثرٌ نبويَّةٌ

كلُّ الخلايقِ لا تُطيق حسابها

How could they, when these are prophetic deeds

that all creation lacks the power to reckon?

ذاك الذي طَلب السماءَ بجدّه

وبمجدِه حتَّى ارتقى أسبابها

He is the one who sought heaven through his striving

and his glory, until he climbed its ladders.

ما العلمُ منحلاً لديه وإنَّما

وَرثَ النبوَّةَ وحيَها وكتابها

Knowledge is no gift bestowed on him; rather,

he inherited prophethood, its revelation and its Book.

يا من يريش سهامَ فكرتِه النهى

فلأيّ شاكلةٍ أراد أصابها

O you whose arrows of thought are feathered by reason,

you strike whatever target you intend.

ولدتكَ أمُّ المكرماتِ مبرَّءاً

ممَّا يُشينُ من الكرامِ جنابها

The mother of noble deeds bore you free

of all that stains her honor among the noble.

ورضعتَ من ثدي الإمامةِ علمَها

مُتجلبباً في حجرِها جلبابها

You suckled her knowledge from the breast of the Imamate,

clothed in her mantle while upon her lap.

وبنورِ عصمتِها فُطمت فلم ترث

حتَّى بأمرِ الله نُبت منابها

Weaned on the light of her infallibility, you did not tarry

before, at God's command, you stood in her stead.

فاليومَ أعمالُ الخلايقِ عندكم

وغداً تلون ثوابها وعقابها

Today the deeds of all creation are with you,

and tomorrow you will administer their reward and punishment.

وإليكم جَعل الإِلهُ إيابها

وعليكم يومَ المعادِ حسابها

To you God has assigned their return,

and upon you rests their reckoning on the Day of Return.

يا من له انتهت الزعامة في العُلى

فغداً يروض من الأمور صعابها

O you to whom leadership in the heights has passed,

and who tomorrow will tame the hardest of affairs.

لو لامست يدك الصخورَ لفجَّرت

بالماء من صمّ الصخور صِلابها

Were your hand to touch the rocks, it would make

the hardest of solid rocks gush with water.

ورعى ذِمام الأجنبين كما رعى

لبني أُرومةِ مجدِه أنسابها

He honored the covenants of strangers just as he honored

the kinship bonds of the sons of his glorious stock.

رُقتَ الأنام طبايعاً وصنايعاً

بهما ملكت قلوبها ورقابها

You charmed mankind with your character and benefactions;

through both you won their hearts and their necks.

وجدتكَ أبسط في المكارم راحةً

بيضاءَ يستسقي السحابُ سحابها

Mankind found your palm most open in generosity,

a white palm whose clouds the clouds beseech for rain.

ورأتك أنورَ في المعالي طلعةً

غرَّاءَ لم تَنُب النجومُ منابها

And saw your countenance the brightest in the heights,

a radiant face whose place the stars have never taken.

للهِ دارك إنَّها قِبَلُ الثنا

وبها المدايحُ أثبتت محرابها

God bless your abode: toward it praise turns,

and there panegyrics have established their prayer-niche.

هي جنَّةُ الفردوس إلاّ أنَّها

رضوانُ بِشرك فاتحٌ أبوابها

It is the garden of Paradise, except that

the Ridwan of your smiling welcome opens its gates.

فأقم كما اشتهت الشريعةُ خالداً

تطوي بنشرِك للهدى أحقابها

So remain forever, as the sacred Law has wished,

folding away its ages by unfolding guidance.