هواك لا نوار الملامة ملمع

فلا بد من يبلى به يتشعشع

Love for you makes the lights of reproach gleam;

whoever is afflicted by it must surely glitter.

غرامك عن ما الحيوة عبارة

فلا شك يفنى كل من يتجرع

Passion for you is an expression of the water of life;

so, without doubt, everyone who drinks it perishes.

جمالك خلاق البدايع في البها

له موجد في كل آنٍ ومبدع

Your beauty creates marvels in splendor;

it has a maker and an innovator at every instant.

معاف عن الاجبار نيل وصاله

له الملك يؤتى من يشاء وينرع

Attaining union with him is free from compulsion;

sovereignty is his: he grants it to whom he wills and withdraws it.

على اولياء الوجد قدك لومتنا

ملاقيه جبراً للحيوة يودّع

To the devotees of ecstasy, your stature is our reproach;

whoever encounters it is forced to bid life farewell.

بمشيك بان المستعار واهله

وحقق ان الروح في الجسم مودع

Your gait revealed what is borrowed and its owner,

and confirmed that the soul is deposited in the body.

لدايرة الارواح خالك مركز

لجمعيه الالباب وجهل مجمع

Your mole is the center of the circle of souls;

a meeting-place for the gathering of minds and ignorance.

فلم تلتفت عينا اليك تلهيا

لكل من الاحباب قلب مضيع

No eye has turned toward you merely for amusement;

every lover has a heart gone astray.

بعيد قبول المنع عن تابع الهوى

عذول شناع الأبتلا ينشنع

Acceptance of restraint is far from a follower of love;

the censurer, a reviler of affliction, rails against it.

محال زوال الوجد بعد حلوله

معالج امراض الهوى يتصدّع

Ecstasy cannot depart once it has settled;

the healer of love's ailments is himself shattered.

حرام هو ا لدنيا على كل عاشق

فقيه الهوى من غيره يتورع

Worldly desire is forbidden to every lover;

the jurist of love scrupulously shuns all else.

فلو حملت ما في الغرام من الضنا

مطيّة اوضاع الدواير تضلع

Were it to bear the wasting sickness found in passion,

the steed of the spheres' ordered courses would limp.

ولو عرضت فرضاً على قلب ميت

تصور اوهام الصبابة يجزع

And were it presented, hypothetically, to a dead heart,

it would imagine longing's fantasies and tremble.

وان امتلى بطن الزمان مطاعماً

حريص حظوظ الأبتلا ليس يشبعغ

Even if time's belly were filled with food,

one hungry for portions of affliction would never be sated.

فلا تحسبوا ذا الحب ممن يحبه

بحال من الأحوال يرضى ويقنع

Do not suppose that a lover, among those who cherish it,

will ever, under any circumstances, be satisfied and content.

اذا شم ريح الورد يقصدان يرا

فلما يرى بالاجتنا فيه يطمع

When he smells a rose's fragrance, he seeks to see it;

and when he sees it, he longs to pluck it.

حظوظ مقامات الغرام كثيره

ولكن منها تابع العقل يمنع

The rewards of passion's stations are many,

but the follower of reason is barred from them.

برى ولي العقل من لذه الهوى

فما هو الا حظ من يتولع

The ally of reason is untouched by love's delight;

it is only the portion of one consumed by passion.

عجيب لمن ذاق الهوى وهو عاقل

عجبت لطير صاد وهو مبرقع

How strange that one should taste love while still rational!

I marveled at a bird that caught prey while hooded.

هويت حبيباً كثر اللَه خيره

يزيد جفاء كلما اتضرع

I loved a beloved—may God increase his goodness—

who grows harsher whenever I implore him.

بليت بقتال كفى اللَه شره

يجور عناداً كلما اتخشع

I was afflicted with a slayer—may God ward off his evil—

who wrongs me stubbornly whenever I humble myself.

اذا رمت ميلاً منه ليس بتابع

اذا قلت الام الهوى ليس يسمع

When I seek some inclination from him, he will not comply;

when I speak of love's pains, he will not listen.

ولكن قد يصغى الى كل كاذبٍ

وما قال اعداء المحبة يتبع

Yet he may lend an ear to every liar,

and follows whatever the enemies of love have said.

غلطت باظهار المحبة عنده

فعفوا الخطا من لطفه اتوقع

I erred in revealing my love before him;

so I expect his kindness to pardon the error.

فان ذل عذري في ازالة قهره

انيناً حزيناً باكياً اتشفع

If my excuse proves too weak to lift his oppression,

groaning, sorrowful and weeping, I seek intercession

بحب امام عادل نور ذاته

لنظم وجود الدهر في الكون مطلع

through love of a just Imam, the light of whose being

is a dawn within creation, ordering time's existence.

ولي وصى كامل متكمّل

تقى نقي زاهد متسرع

A saint and legatee, perfect and perfecting himself,

pious, pure, ascetic and swift to act.

اقام بناء الدين جوداً او طاعة

فاعطى فقيراً خاتماً وهو يركع

He raised the edifice of faith through generosity or obedience,

and gave a poor man a ring while bowing in prayer.

كفاه شهيد في الولاية انه

كفى شر ثعبان وفي المهد يرضع

Sufficient witness to his saintly authority is that he

warded off a serpent's evil while suckling in the cradle.

اليه رجوع الشمس بالطوع لازم

فمن غيره في الشرع والعرف مرجع

The sun must return to him willingly;

who else is the point of recourse in sacred law and custom?

محبته احيت نصيره كرامة

فكل امرءٍ من صدقه يتمتع

His love revived his supporter as a miraculous favor,

so everyone benefits from his sincerity.

على ولي اللَه وصفا وصورة

ولكن في المعنى مشيح ويوشع

Ali is God's friend in description and outward form,

but in inward meaning, he is the Messiah and Joshua.

طراوة غصن الشرح من ماء سيغة

هو الأصل منه الاولياء تتفرع

The bough of [sacred law?] draws freshness from the water of [his sword?].

He is the root from which the saints branch forth.

هو الواضع الأولى لكل فضيلةٍ

فيوضع منه الشرع والكفر يرفع

He is the first establisher of every virtue;

through him sacred law is established and unbelief removed.

موالاته بالعذل واللوم لم تزل

جبال عن الارياح لا تتزعزع

Loyalty to him has never vanished under censure and blame;

mountains do not quake before the winds.

من الطعن لا يوذي مزاج عدوه

من الضرب غير الحي لا يتوقع

His thrust does not merely injure his enemy's constitution;

from his blow, nothing but [death?] is expected.

هو الغيث للاحباب والليث للعدى

وداداً واكراهاً يفرو ينفع

He is rain for loved ones and a lion for enemies;

in affection and compulsion, he rends and benefits.

على كل اهل اللطف والجود فايق

ومن كل من فيه الشجاعة اشجع

He surpasses all people of kindness and generosity,

and is braver than everyone who possesses courage.

فلو لم يكن في بنية الشرع حكمة

اساساً لتأكير التمكن تقلع

Were wisdom not within the structure of sacred law,

as a foundation to [reinforce] its stability, it would be uprooted.

ولو لم يكن بالصدق لازم ذيله

من الدهر جبراً حله الكون تخلع

And were there no one sincerely clinging to his hem,

time would forcibly strip away the garment of the cosmos.

امان من البلوى تحرك سيفه

خيالات افساد العدى منه تدفع

The movement of his sword is protection from affliction;

through it, the enemies' visions of corruption are repelled.

عصاة كليم سيفه بظهوره

اراقم جبل السحر تفنى وتبلع

His sword is the staff of God's interlocutor; when it appears,

the vipers of the mountain of magic perish and are swallowed.

عليك سلام اللَه يا منبع التقى

ويا من لا ثار المكارم منبع

God's peace be upon you, O fountain of piety,

O source of the manifestations of noble deeds.

سنى ارم الجنات حينا لأجله

تعين قدر افي جوارك مضجع

The radiance of Iram's gardens was, for a time, for his sake;

a resting-place beside you was appointed by destiny.

فلا شك من تلك الجنان لطافة

حريمك عند العقل اقصى واوسع

There is no doubt: compared with those gardens in refinement,

your sanctuary, in reason's eyes, extends farther and is more spacious.

بكى نوح حتى نال عندك منزلاً

لذا كان طول العمر يبكي ويقرع

Noah wept until he gained a dwelling beside you;

for this he wept and knocked throughout his life.

ودادك معروض على ساير الورى

مودة مودود سواك تبرع

Your love is offered to all mankind;

affection for a beloved other than you is a voluntary offering.

خلافك لأعدا من طرق الفنى

اذا ما اقتد الأبد ما يتضيع

Opposing you is, for enemies, one of the paths to annihilation;

if eternity follows, it does not go astray.

لحبك بين الروح والعقل الفة

فلولاه ربك فيهما يتقطّع

Through love of you, soul and reason are in harmony;

but for it, your Lord would be torn apart within them.

فانت ظهير الحق يا معدن الوفا

فضولي رجاءً باب لطفي يقرع

You are the champion of Truth, O mine of faithfulness;

Fuzuli knocks hopefully at the door of my kindness.

ويشكو عن الحسادان عنادهم

كثير وعين الحال من ذاك تدمع

And he complains of the envious, that their obstinacy

is great, and the eye of his plight weeps because of it.

فيدعو ويرجوان قهرك عاجلا

الى دفع افساد المفاسد يسرع

So he prays and hopes that your conquering might will swiftly

hasten to repel the ruin wrought by corrupt deeds.