يا هند قد آن الرحيل فزودي

لو كان إلا زورة المتنهدِ

O Hind, the time to depart has come; give me provisions,

even if only a visit for one who sighs.

يا هندُ لم أنكر هواك فتنكري

حقي ولم أجحد وَلاَك فتجحدِ

O Hind, I have not denied my love for you, that you should deny

my due; nor have I denied your affection, that you should deny it.

أنا جاركم بالأبرقين وأُهلُكم

أهلي وشعبُكمُ برامة موردي

I am your neighbor at al-Abraqayn, and your people

are my people; your valley at Ramah is my watering place.

وعهدتكم يأوي الغريبُ جنابكم

وأرى الجنابُ كأنه لم يُعهْدِ

And I knew you: the stranger found shelter in your precinct;

yet I see the precinct as though it had never been known.

لا تُعرضي فمشقتي إن تعرضي

لا تُبعدي فبليتي إن تبعدي

Do not turn away, for my anguish lies in your turning away.

Do not go far away, for my affliction lies in your departure.

اسهرتموني بالحمى ورقدتمُ

من أين يشعر نائم بمسهّد

You kept me sleepless in the protected pasture while you slept;

how can a sleeper feel for one kept awake?

ووعدتني إن لا تخوني موثقي

أفلا وفيتِ ببعض ذاك الموعد

And you promised me not to betray my pledge;

will you not fulfill some part of that promise?

مَا أوحشَ الأوطان لا سكن بها

يسلي ولا كفٍ تجود لمجتدي

How desolate the homelands, with no companion in them

to console, and no hand generous to a supplicant.

خلفتموني للنوائب بعدكم

غرضاً وافلتم فؤادي مِنْ يدي

You left me to calamities after your departure,

as a target, and let my heart slip from my hand.

وحما فَدَين ترابي

أخفاف ها تلك الجمال الوخَّدِ

And [unclear], they ransomed my dust;

the hoof-pads of those swift-striding camels.

ما لليالي الحادثات رأيتُها

إن تَنهْ عن بين الأحبة تزدد

What ails the calamitous nights? I have seen them:

if you forbid them to part loved ones, they do it still more.

هيهات لابان اللّوى من بعدكم

غَضٌ ولا ماء اللوى بمبردِ

Alas, after your departure, al-Liwa's bān trees are no longer

fresh, nor is al-Liwa's water cooling.

يا رائحين وددت لو رافقتكم

في السير يقطع فدفداً في فدفد

O departing travelers, I wish I had accompanied you

in travel crossing one wilderness into another.

إنْ جئتِ يثرب فالتثم لي تربةً

مضربة فيها بنوة أحمد

If you come to Yathrib, kiss some earth for me,

where Ahmad's 'sonship' is lodged [text unclear].

طف حول ذاك القبر والتثم تربة

بالليل تغن به عن الندّ الندى

Circle that grave and kiss some earth

by night; with it, dispense with moist incense.

قل يا رسول الله هل من لحظةٍ

فَلَكم كشفت دَجَى الظلامِ الأسود

Say: O Messenger of God, will you cast a glance?

For how often you have dispelled the gloom of black darkness!

قُلْ يا رسول الله هل ما لفتة

فالذئبُ يَرْعَى في جناب الأرْبد

Say: O Messenger of God, will you turn your attention toward us?

For the wolf grazes in the dusky lion's domain.

لا تنسْ أمتَك الضِعَاف وإن نسوا

حاشاك لست عن الصريخ بقعدد

Do not forget your weak community, even if they forget.

Far be it from you! You are no laggard in answering a cry for help.

أنّ النبيّ الهاشمي خفيره

في العز لو ضهد السها لم يَضهد

The Hashimite Prophet is his protector,

in honor: even if al-Suha were oppressed, he would not be oppressed.

أَدرِك بقايا امة قد بددت

بالمَحْلِ بعدَ المَحْل كلذ مُبَدّد

Rescue the remnants of a community scattered

by drought after drought, dispersed [one word unclear].

واشفع بامنِهم وَخِصْب بلادهم

فالعبد يطمع في جناب السيد

And intercede for their safety and the fertility of their lands;

for the servant sets his hope upon the master's court.

وعهدتكم يا أهل يثرب ضيفُكم

ضيفُ الخميلة والسحاب المَزبد

And I have known you, O people of Yathrib: your guest

is a guest of the leafy grove and the foaming clouds.

وكذاك يا رَبّ القلوص كأنَّها

نَعمانُ قد طُرّدن كلَّ مُطَرّد

And likewise, O master of the young she-camel, as though she were

Na'man [text unclear], driven every which way.

بالجانب الشرقي شرقِ عُواجةٍ

نورٌ به تهدي الأنام فتهتدي

On the eastern side, east of Uwajah,

there is a light by which you guide humankind and find guidance.

فهناك أشرفُ تربةٍ قدسية

فيها ضريح محمد ومحمد

There lies the noblest holy earth;

within it lies the tomb of Muhammad and Muhammad.

ومتى أردت فمن وضاءة كوكبٍ

ومتى أردت فأيُّ بحرٍ مُزْبد

And if you wish, there is something of a star's radiance;

and if you wish, what a foaming sea!

وأمَامَكم قبر إليه تألفوا

قبرَ الحسين وأيّ شخصٍ أوحدِ

And before you is a grave to which you are drawn:

the grave of al-Husayn—what a peerless man!

واهاً لها تلك الضرائح أهلُها

شُهداءُ ما إنْ يذمَمُونَ بمشْهدِ

Ah, for those tombs! Their dwellers

are martyrs, never censured in any gathering.

بجليُّهم حَكميهُّم غنميّهم

طيبُ الفروع بطيب ذاكِ المحتد

Their Bajali, their Hakami, their Ghanmi—

the branches' purity comes from the purity of that stock.

سَاداتنا وهداتنا شفعاؤنا

إنْ آدمٌ ترك الشفاعة في غَدِ

Our masters, our guides, our intercessors,

if Adam relinquishes intercession on the morrow.

يدعوهم عِندَ الشدائد كُلَّما

ضاقت وفيهم نجدةُ المُستنجدِ

He calls upon them amid hardships, whenever

distress closes in; in them is succor for the seeker of aid.

تُستمطر السُّحْبُ الغزارُ بجاههم

والماء ينبع في الصفآ الجَلْمَد

Through their standing, rain is sought from laden clouds,

and water springs within smooth, hard rock.

ليت الفقيه يرى بل الشيخ الذي

نشكوه من نكدِ الزمانِ الانكدِ

Would that the jurist could see—rather, the shaykh—what

we bewail: the misery of this most wretched age.

جَفَتِ البلاد وَجفَّ اخضر نبتها

والرزق ضاق بمغور وبمنجد

The lands have dried, and the green of their vegetation has withered;

and sustenance is scant for lowlander and highlander.

فالشيخ مَلَّ من البلاَء حياته

والطفلُ ودّ بأنه لم يُولد

So the old man, through affliction, has tired of life;

and the child wishes he had not been born.

وا أحمداه وأَبا بكرٍ وواعمراه

صوتٌ يجود بفيضه يَروي الصدى

Ah, Ahmad! And Abu Bakr! And ah, Umar!

A voice pours forth its flood, slaking thirst.

عجلاً إلى صوت الصريخ فإنكم

بكم الكرام إلى المكارم تقتدي

Hasten to the cry for help, for you—

through you, the noble take their lead toward noble deeds.

أحبابنا أنتم ونحن على الذي

قد كان لم ننكس ولم نتبلّد

You are our beloveds, and we remain true to what

once was; we have not turned back, nor grown heedless.

جيراننا أنتم ونحن إليكم

نلجا وحق الجار لزم باليد

You are our neighbors, and to you we

seek refuge; a neighbor's claim is binding on the hand.

مدوا إلى الرحمن أيديكم لنا

هل تُملاَ الأيدي إذا لم تمددِ

Stretch out your hands to the Merciful on our behalf;

are hands filled if they are not stretched out?

يا ربّ سقيا رحمةٍ وتعطّف

لا غيث عادِ في الزمَان الرمدد

O Lord, grant watering with mercy and compassion,

not the rain of Ad in the ash-gray season.

غيثاً مغيثاً واكفاً مغدودقا

يَدع البلاد ذوات روضٍ ارغد

Rain that brings relief, pouring and abundant,

that leaves the lands with luxuriant meadows;

تمشى شعايبه تجعجع سَيْلها

كتجعجع الفحل الحدب الجلعد

its branching streams flow, their torrent rumbling,

like the rumbling of a humped, massive bull camel.

ويدر منه الضرعُ بعد جفونه

والزرع عَاماً بعد عامٍ أرغد

And through it the udder gives milk after [unclear: 'its eyelids'];

and the crops grow richer year after year.

وتُعاود الدنيا كسالفِ عهدِها

والناسُ بين مُطرِّبٍ ومُغرّد

And the world returns to its former state,

and people are singing melodiously or trilling.

فالعسر قال الله في آياته

يسران واستشهد الهك يشهد

For hardship, as God has said in His verses,

has two reliefs; call your God to witness, and He will testify.

لاَ ترقدوا عنّا ونسهرُ ما كذا

نرويه عنكم في الحديث المسند

Do not sleep heedless of us while we keep vigil; this is not what

we relate from you in tradition with a chain of transmission.

أن ترحلوا فهواكم لم يرتحل

أو تقعدوا فهو أكم لم يَقعد

If you depart, love for you has not departed;

or if you stay, [love for you] has not stayed still [text split].

وإذا عليُّ بن الحسين بقي لنا

فَلَربّ ألف يكفلون بمفرد

And if Ali ibn al-Husayn remains with us,

many a thousand are sustained by a single man.

وعليكم منا أجلُّ تحيةٍ

أبداً تروح مع الزمان وتغتدي

And upon you, from us, the noblest greeting,

forever, traveling with time at evening and at dawn.