Sol 6.1

  1. للَّه أي ملم هائل وقعا

    وأي خطبٍ لأعلام الهدى صدعا

    God! What a terrible calamity has befallen!

    And what a catastrophe has shattered the standards of guidance!

  2. وأي نازلةٍ ضاق الزمان بها

    ذرعاً ومن قبلها قد كان متسعا

    And what a disaster has left time itself

    unable to bear it, though before it time had ample room!

  3. وأي داهيةٍ دهماء قد خلعت

    على الهدى من دياجير الردى قطعا

    And what a dark calamity has draped

    guidance in swathes of death's deepest darkness!

  4. وأي معضلةٍ جلاء فاقمه

    سقت ذوي الدين من كاساتها جرعا

    And what a mighty, grievous ordeal

    has made the faithful drink draughts from its cups!

  5. رزء عظيم كسى الإسلام حادثه

    حزناً فأصبح موغور الحشا جزعا

    A great loss, whose occurrence clothed Islam

    in sorrow, leaving it anguished at heart and distraught.

  6. وفاد طرق المعروف نائبه

    فانحط من قدره ما كان مرتفعا

    He died; his calamity struck benevolence,

    and its once-lofty standing was brought low.

  7. غوث الأنام ملاذ الخلق مرجع أه

    ل الحق أكرم من للفضل قد جمعا

    Succor of humankind, refuge of creation, resort of the people

    of truth, the noblest of those who gathered excellence:

  8. محمد حسن السامي مقام علا

    من دونه كل نسر طائر وقعا

    Muhammad Hasan, exalted, whose station rose so high

    that every soaring eagle fell beneath him.

  9. قضى فقل كل فضلٍ راح يصحبه

    والمكرمات جميعاً قد مضين معا

    He died; say that every excellence went to accompany him,

    and all noble deeds departed together.

  10. وسار فالفخر قد أضحى الغداة له

    مشيعاص وجميل الذكر متبعا

    He departed, and this morning glory became

    his funeral escort, with fair renown following.

  11. من للهدى بعده من للعلو ومن

    يذب عن شرع دين المصطفى البدعا

    Who is there for guidance after him, who for eminence, and who

    will ward innovations away from the law of al-Mustafa's religion?

  12. من للمناثر يتلو فوقها حكماً

    ومن لأحكام دين اللَه أن هزعا

    Who is there for the pulpits, reciting wisdom upon them?

    And who for the rulings of God's faith, if it is shattered?

  13. دعا إلى اللَه دهراً جاهداً وغدا

    مبادراً للقاء اللَه حين دعا

    For an age he called to God, striving, then went

    hastening to meet God when He called.

  14. وقد رعى الشرع مذ ألقى الزمام له

    فكان أحفظ خلق اللَه حين رعى

    He guarded the sacred law ever since its reins were handed to him,

    and was the most watchful of God's creatures when he guarded it.

  15. فليبكه الدين والدنيا فإنهما

    له بأمر الباري قد اجتمعا

    Let religion and the world weep for him, for they both

    were united for him by the Creator's command.

  16. يا كعبة أمها العافي وطاف بها

    كل امرئٍ للمعالي والعلوم سعى

    O Kaaba, sought by the seeker of bounty and circled by

    everyone who strove for lofty honors and knowledge!

  17. ويا خضماً طما دهراً وقد ملأ الدن

    يا جواهر فضلٍ نورها سطعا

    And O vast sea, long overflowing, that had filled the world

    with jewels of excellence whose light shone!

  18. بحر فما في عطاشى العلم من أحد

    يروي إذا لم يكن من لجه شرعا

    A sea: not one of those thirsting for knowledge

    is quenched unless he comes to drink from its depths.

  19. بلغتم ما لم ينله بالغ فغدا

    من دون علياك هام النجم متضعا

    You attained what none could attain, and thus

    the stars' crowns lay low beneath your loftiness.

  20. وسدت بالعلم أهل العلم قاطبةً

    إذ رحت بالأمر دون الناس مضطلعا

    Through knowledge you led all the learned,

    when you alone, apart from others, shouldered the charge.

  21. ملكت دون سواك الأمر أجمعه

    لما غدوت على الأسرار مطلعا

    You held the whole charge, to the exclusion of all others,

    when you gained insight into the secrets.

  22. أصم نعي أسماع الأنام كما

    أصمى فؤاد الهدى ناعيك حين نعى

    The death announcement deafened humankind's ears, just as

    your death's announcer mortally wounded guidance's heart when he announced it.

  23. ضاقت بمعروفك الدنيا ومن عجب

    في حفرة قدر باع بت مضطجعا

    The world was too narrow for your kindness—and how strange

    that you came to lie in a pit an armspan wide!

  24. قد ظل بعدك أهل الدين في فرق

    والدين بعدك أضحى خائفاً فزعا

    After you, the people of faith remained in dread,

    and after you religion became fearful and alarmed.

  25. وها أنا في عظيم الخطب في قلقٍ

    حيران أكرع من كاس الردى جرعا

    Here I am, amid this tremendous calamity, restless,

    bewildered, gulping draughts from death's cup.

  26. سودت بعدك أبكار الرثاء كما

    بيضت من قبل في مدحي لك الرقعا

    After you, I blackened elegy's virgin verses, just as

    I once whitened the sheets with my praise of you.

  27. لا أهتدي منهج القول البليغ ولي

    قلب غدى بيد الأحزان منزعا

    I cannot find the path of eloquent speech, while I have

    a heart torn apart by sorrow's hand.

  28. وبي من الوجد لو بالشهب ما بزغت

    والشمس ما أشرقت والبدر ما طلعا

    Such is the anguish within me: were it in the stars, they would not rise,

    nor would the sun shine, nor the full moon rise.

  29. ولا معين على السلوان غير فتىً

    من دوحة المصطفى والمرتضى نبعا

    There is no aid to consolation but a young man

    sprung from the great tree of al-Mustafa and al-Murtada:

  30. وذي فخار متى عد الأماجد من

    أبناء فاطمة كانوا له تبعا

    a man of glory: whenever the illustrious are counted among

    Fatima's sons, they are his followers.

  31. محمد صاحب المجد التقي ونمن

    حاز الفخار وأتات العلى جمعا

    Muhammad, lord of glory, the devout, and one who

    won glory and gathered all the trappings of eminence.

  32. مولىً به ما بأهليه الكرام وفي

    سيمء غرته نور الهدى لمعا

    A lord bearing the virtues of his noble kin, and in

    the features of his radiant brow, guidance's light shone.

  33. يا من لعلياه قد ألقت مقالدها

    أيدي العلوم وجيد الدهر قد خضعا

    O you, to whose high rank their keys have been surrendered

    by the hands of the sciences, and to whom time's neck has bowed!

  34. صبراً لواقع خطب جل فادحه

    الصبر خير وإن جل الذي وقعا

    Be patient before this calamity, whose burden is immense;

    patience is best, though great is what has befallen.

  35. أخف الأسى جلداً عند المصاب فما

    أولى بمثلك أن لا يظهر الجزعا

    Hide sorrow with fortitude in affliction: how fitting

    that one like you should not show distress!

  36. وانظر لولد أبي عبد الحسين تجد

    من بعده منهج السلوان متسعا

    Look to the sons of Abu Abd al-Husayn, and you will find

    after him a broad path to consolation.

  37. كفر قدي فلك المجد الذي هما

    بالفضل ساداً وبالمعروف قد برعا

    Like the two Farqad stars of glory's firmament, these two

    were foremost through excellence and excelled in kindness:

  38. حامي حمى المجد إبراهيم من رفعت

    يداه ركن العلى والمجد فارتفعا

    Protector of glory's sanctuary, Ibrahim, whose

    two hands raised the pillar of eminence and glory, and it stood high;

  39. وذي التقى والنهى عبد الحسين ومن

    فيه لعمر أبيه الفضل قد جمعا

    and Abd al-Husayn, possessor of piety and reason, the one

    in whom, by his father's life, excellence was gathered.

  40. هما اللذان سوى المعروف ما ألفا

    يوماً وغير سبيل الرشد ما اتبعا

    They are the two who knew nothing but kindness

    on any day, and followed no path but that of right guidance.

  41. وإن نسيت فلا أنسى الحسين ولا

    أنسى علياً أخاه الماجد الورعا

    And if I forget, I shall not forget al-Husayn, nor

    forget Ali, his glorious, devout brother.

  42. هما جوادا رهان للعلى جريا

    في حلبة دونها العيوق قد ضلعا

    They are two racing steeds that ran toward eminence

    in an arena below which al-Ayyuq itself limped.

  43. هما رضيعا لبان الفخر قد جبلا

    على الهدى وعلى حب العلى طبعا

    They are two nurslings of glory's milk, molded

    upon guidance and imprinted with love of eminence.

  44. ولا عدا اللطف رمساً بالحمى وسقى

    ثراه صوب من الغفران قد نبعا

    May grace never bypass a tomb in the sanctuary, and may

    a downpour welling from forgiveness water its soil.