جلَّ من رباك — Mohammed Almogren

ربّاك ربك جل من رباكَ

ورعاكَ في كنف الهدى وحماكَ

Your Lord nurtured you—exalted is He who nurtured you.

And tended you in the shelter of guidance and protected you.

سبحانه أعطاكَ فيض فضائلٍ

لم يعطها في العالمين سواكَ

Glory be to Him! He gave you an outpouring of virtues

He gave to no one in all the worlds but you.

سوّاكَ في خلق عظيم وارتقى

فيكَ الجمال فجلّ من سواكَ

He fashioned you with sublime character, and there rose

Within you beauty—exalted is He who fashioned you.

سبحانه أعطاكَ خير رسالةٍ

في العالمين بها نشرت هداكَ

Glory be to Him! He gave you the finest message;

Throughout the worlds, with it you spread your guidance.

وحباكَ في يوم الحساب شفاعةً

محمودةً ما نالهـــا إلاّكَ

And on the Day of Reckoning He bestowed upon you intercession,

Praiseworthy, attained by none but you.

الله أرسلكم إلينا رحمةً

ما ضلّ من تبعت خطــاهُ خطـــاكَ

God sent you to us as a mercy.

No one whose footsteps followed yours went astray.

كّنا حيارى في الظلام فأشرقت

شمسُ الهداية يوم لاح سناكَ

We were bewildered in the darkness; then shone

The sun of guidance, the day your radiance appeared.

كنا وربي غارقين بغيّنا

حتى ربطنــا حبلــنا بعــــراكَ

We were, by my Lord, drowning in our error,

Until we tied our rope to your handholds.

لولاك لم نعبد إلهًا واحدًا

حتى هدانا الله يوم هــداكَ

Without you, we would not have worshipped one God,

Until God guided us the day He guided you.

أنت الذي حنّ الجمادُ لعطفه

وشكا لك الحيوان يوم رآكَ

You are the one for whose kindness lifeless things yearned,

And the animal complained to you the day it saw you.

والجذع يسمعُ بالحنين أنينه

وبكاؤه شوقًا إلى لقياكَ

And the tree trunk’s moaning is heard in yearning,

And its weeping, in longing to meet you.

ماذا يزيدكَ مدحنا وثناؤنا

والله في القرآن قد زكـــاكَ

What do our praise and acclaim add to you,

When God has already commended you in the Qur’an?

ماذا يفيدُ الذب عنك وربنا

سبحانه بعيونه يرعـــاكَ

What use is defending you, when our Lord,

Glory be to Him, watches over you with His eyes?

بدر تحدثنا عن الكف التي

رمت الطغاة فبوركت كفاكَ

Badr tells us of the palm that

Pelted the tyrants—blessed be your two hands!

والغار يخبرنا عن العين التي

حفظتك يوم غفت به عيناكَ

And the cave tells us of the eye that

Guarded you the day your eyes slept within it.

لم اكتب الأشعار فيك مهابة

تغضي حروفي رأسها لعلاكَ

I have not written poems about you, out of reverent awe;

My letters bow their heads before your loftiness.

لكنها نار على أعدائكم

عادى إله العـــرش من عـــاداكَ

But they are fire against your enemies;

The God of the Throne opposes whoever opposes you.

إني لأرخص دون عرضك مهجتي

روحٌ تروح ولايُمسٌ حماكَ

Indeed, I hold my lifeblood cheap in defense of your honor;

A soul departs, but your sanctuary remains untouched.

شُلّتْ يمين صورتك وجُِمّدَتْ

وسط العـــروق دمـــاء من آذاكَ

Paralyzed be the right hand that depicted you, and frozen

Within the veins be the blood of whoever harmed you.

ويلٌ فويلٌ ثم ويلٌ للــذي

قد خاض في العرض الشريف ولاكَ

Woe, then woe, then woe to the one

Who has assailed that noble honor and chewed upon it.

لك يا رسول الله نبض قصائدي

لو كان قلب للقصـــيد فَدَاكَ

For you, O Messenger of God, beats the pulse of my poems.

If poetry had a heart, it would offer itself as your ransom.

هم لن يطولوا من مقامكَ شعرةً

حتى تطـــول الــذرة الأفلاكَ

They will not reach a hair’s breadth of your station,

Until a tiny speck reaches the celestial spheres.

والله لن يصلوا إليكَ ولا إلى

ذرات رمــل من تراب خطـــــاكَ

By God, they will never reach you, nor even

Grains of sand from the dust of your footsteps.

هم كالخشاش على الثرى ومقامكم

مثل السماء فمن يطول سماكَ

They are like vermin on the earth, while your station

Is like the sky—who, then, can reach your sky?

روحي وأبنائي وأهلي كلهم

وجميع ما حوت الحياة فِدَاكَ

My soul, my children, and all my family,

And all that life holds are a ransom for you.