يا أهيل الحمى وعرب الفريق

علّ من نظرة لصب مشوق

O dear people of the protected grounds, and Arabs of the camp,

might there be a glance for a lovesick, longing man?

مغرم لم يزل اسير هواكم

راح يبكي الاسى بدمع طليق

A passionate lover, ever captive to love of you,

has taken to weeping sorrow with freely flowing tears.

رقق البين حاله منه حتى

سامه بالهوان سوم الرقيق

Separation so reduced him to frailty that

it subjected him to abasement like a slave.

ود في العمر لو يراكم طريقا

فتقضى وعينه في الطريق

He wished in his lifetime to see you along a road,

and so he died, his eye still on the road.

يسفح الدمع في الخدود عقيقا

حبذا السفح مؤذنا بالعقيق

He pours tears down his cheeks like carnelian;

how lovely the hillside, heralding al-ʿAqīq,

حيث كان الشباب بالوصل غضا

باسما عن رضاب غصن وريق

where youth was fresh through union,

smiling with the lip-nectar of a leafy bough.

لم يرعني من حادثات الليالي

طارق ما سوى الخيال الطروق

I was not startled, amid the nights' misfortunes,

by any visitor save the phantom that comes by night.

يا نزولا بالمنحنى من ضلوعي

هل الى الصبر عنكم من طريق

O you encamped in the bend of my ribs,

is there any path to patience without you?

ناركم في الحشا تشب لهيبا

وخفوق البروق بعض خفوقي

Your fire flares into flame within my breast,

and the lightning's flickering is but part of my heart's throbbing.

كيف اسلو وحبكم في فؤادي

ساكن في مفاصلي وعروقي

How can I forget, when love of you in my heart

dwells in my joints and veins?

فيما بيننا جرى من عهود

وبما في الهوى لكم من حقوق

For the pledges that passed between us,

and for the rights you hold in love,

لا تحولوا عن الوداد فإني

واثق منكم بعهد وثيق

do not turn away from affection, for I

trust in your firm covenant.

أي كهف في حيكم من اتاه

فاز منه بظل روض انيق

What a refuge there is in your camp! Whoever comes to him

wins from him the shade of a lovely garden.

اكرم الانبياء والرسل حقا

من زكان فرعه باصل عريق

Truly the noblest of prophets and messengers,

he whose branch flourished from deep-rooted stock.

صاحب الحوض والشفاعة والبر

دة والتاج والقضيب الرشيق

Master of the Pool and intercession, and of the

cloak, the crown, and the slender staff.

خير من بالحديد يسعى ومن قد

طاف بالمشعر الحرام العتيق

The best of those who strive with iron, and those who have

circled ancient al-Mashʿar al-Ḥarām.

طالما قد شفى من الضر عينا

وبها جاد يوم عسر وضيق

How often he healed an eye of affliction,

and bestowed it freely on a day of hardship and distress.

واتته غزالة الحي تسعى

فكساها الضياء عند الشروق

And the clan's gazelle came hurrying to him,

so he clothed her in radiance at sunrise.

طاب لي نشر مدحه فلهذا

فزت منه بطيب مسك سحيق

Spreading his praise was sweet to me; and so

I gained from him the scent of finely powdered musk.

يا اجل الورى واوسع فضلا

بك ارجو النجاة عند المضيق

O most exalted of creation, most abundant in bounty,

through you I hope for deliverance at the narrow pass.

ومن الحوض في القيامة ابغي

شربة بردها يزيل حريقي

And from the Pool at the Resurrection I seek

a draught whose coolness will quench my burning.

واجوز الصراط كي لمناها

تبلغ النفس بالمجاز الحقيقي

And may I cross the Ṣirāṭ, so that to its desires

the soul may come through a true crossing,

ومع المتقين اسكن داراً

زخرفت في جوار خير فريق

and dwell with the God-fearing in a home

adorned, in the neighborhood of the finest company.

في ظلال على الارائك اسقى

سلسبيلا ختامها من رحيق

In shade, upon couches, I am given to drink

Salsabīl, its seal of pure wine.

يا الهي بقربه منك فاصرف

حر وجهي عن حر نار الحريق

O my God, by his nearness to You, turn away

my bare face from the heat of the blazing fire.

وتقبل فيّ الشفاعة منه

حيث لم ينج من حميم صديق

And accept his intercession on my behalf,

when no intimate friend finds escape.

وعليه ازكى صلاتك ضاعف

دائما في صبوحها والغبوق

And multiply Your purest blessing upon him,

forever, in its morning and evening draughts,

ما صبا خيمت بنجد وفكت

عن عراها مزرات الشقيق

as long as an east wind camps in Najd and unfastens

the anemones' fastenings from their loops.