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شرر في طيننا للحيوات

The points of light that are called selves

Are sparks of life within our clay.

مشعل بالحب منها الجوهر

يتجلى من قواها المضمر

Their essence is kindled by love;

Their hidden powers are revealed.

قطرة بالعشق توعى ضرما

وهي بالعشق تنير العالما

Through love, a drop contains a blaze,

And through love it lights the world.

لا يهاب العشق في السيف المضاء

ليس من ماء وترب وهواء

Love does not fear the sword's sharpness;

It is not made of water, earth, and air.

هو في العالم صلح وخصام

للحياة الماء من هذا الحسام

It is peace and strife within the world;

Life draws its water from this sword.

نظرة العشق بها شق الصخور

هو عشق الحق والحق يصير

Love's gaze has split the rocks;

It is love of the Truth, and becomes the Truth.

فابغ في طينك هذي الكيمياء

اقبسن من كامل هذا الضياء

Seek, then, this alchemy within your clay;

Take this radiance from a perfected one.

امض كالرومي شمعا يشتعل

وارم من تبريز في الروم الشعل

Go forth like Rumi, a candle aflame,

And cast the flames from Tabriz into Rum.

إن في قلبك معشوقا ثوى

أقبلن أنبئك عن هذا الجوى

Indeed, a beloved has dwelt within your heart;

Come; I shall tell you of this anguish of love.

عاشقوه قد شأوا كل جميل

حبهم في كل قلب لا يحول

His lovers have surpassed every beautiful one;

Their love in every heart never changes.

عشقه في القلب نور أسفرا

للثريا يرتقى منه الثرى

Love for him is a light shining in the heart;

Through it, the dust rises to the Pleiades.

ترب نجد منه قد خف وضاء

طار وجدا مصعدا نحو السماء

Through it, Najd's dust grew light and shone;

It flew in ecstasy, ascending toward the sky.

مهجة المسلم مثوى المصطفى

عزة المسلم ذكرى المصطفى

The Muslim's heart is the abode of al-Mustafa;

The Muslim's dignity is remembrance of al-Mustafa.

موجة من نقعة الطور الأشم

داره للكعبة العظمى حرم

Lofty Mount Sinai is a wave from a cloud of dust;

His house is a sanctuary for the great Kaaba.

ضاق عن آن حواه الأبد

مستمد من مداه الأمد

Eternity could not encompass the moment that held him;

The span of time derives from his reach.

آثرت سحق حصير عفته

وعلت تيجان كسرى أمته

His self-restraint preferred a threadbare mat,

And his community rose above Kisra's crowns.

خلوات في حراء خلقا

أمة منها وحكما مشرقا

Retreats in Hira brought forth

A community from them, and a radiant rule.

كم ليال قد قضاها ساهدا

فحبا الأمة ملكا خالدا

How many nights he spent awake,

Thus he bestowed an everlasting kingdom on the community.

سيفه في الحرب قطاع الحديد

عينه في الذكر بالدمع تجود

His sword in battle cleaves iron;

His eye, in remembrance, freely sheds tears.

سيفه آمين تمحو الظالمين

حين يدعو الحق بالنصر المبين

His sword is an 'Amen' that wipes out oppressors,

When he invokes the Truth for manifest victory.

سننا في كوننا قد جددا

ومن الماضين ملكا بددا

He renewed the ways of our world,

And scattered the dominion of those who came before.

فتح الدنيا له مفتاح دين

عقمت عن مثله أم السنين

The key of faith opened the world to him;

The mother of years could not bear his like.

استوى مولى لديه وغلام

هو والعبد سواء في الطعام

Master and servant stood equal before him;

He and the slave were equal in their food.

أسرت في غزوة بنت الجواد

من علا طيا بجدواه وساد

The generous man's daughter was captured in a campaign,

He who excelled Tayy through his bounty and held sway.

رجلها في القيد والرأس حسير

مطرق في ذله الطرف الكسير

Her foot was in fetters, and her head uncovered;

Her broken gaze drooped in humiliation.

بردة ألقى عليها ساترا

إذ رأى وجها ورأساً حاسرا

He cast a cloak over her, covering her,

When he saw her face and head laid bare.

نحن أعرى في الورى من أخت طي

ليس يكسونا لدى الأقوام شيء

Among humankind, we are barer than the sister of Tayy;

Nothing clothes us among the peoples.

هو في الدنيا علينا ساتر

وهو في الحشر إلينا ناظر

He covers us in this world,

And at the Gathering he looks toward us.

لطفه والقهر كل رحمة

لصديق وعدو رأفة

His gentleness and severity are all mercy,

Compassion for friend and foe.

وبيوم الفتح هذا الغافر

قال لا تثريب وهو القادر

And on the day of conquest, this forgiving one

Said, 'No reproach,' though he held the power.

إننا من قيد أوطان براء

ونحن من عينين نور لا مراء

We are indeed free of the fetters of homelands,

And we are light from two eyes, beyond doubt.

نحن في مغربنا والمشرق

كالندى في وجه صبح مشرق

In our West and the East, we are

Like dew upon the face of a radiant dawn.

أسكرتنا عين ساق في البطاح

كزجاج نحن في الدنيا وراح

A cupbearer's eye in the valleys has intoxicated us;

We are like glass and wine in this world.

قد محا الأنساب طرا ذا العظيم

ناره قد أحرقت هذا الهشيم

This great one has effaced all lineages;

His fire has burned up this dry brushwood.

نحن زهر وشذانا ائتلفا

ضمنا منه نظام ألفا

We are flowers, and our fragrance has mingled;

A thread from him gathered and united us.

نحن كنا سره في قلبه

فأذاعت صيحة الحق به

We were his secret within his heart,

Then the cry of the Truth spread word of it.

عشقه ثار بعودي الصامت

ألف لحن في فؤادي الساكت

Love for him stirred, in my silent lute,

A thousand melodies within my silent heart.

ما حديثي عن ولاء واشتياق

قد بكى جذع موات للفراق

What is my talk of devotion and longing?

A lifeless trunk has wept at separation.

صورتي قد أوضحت مرآته

أنا صبح أطلعت آياته

His mirror has revealed my form;

I am a dawn brought forth by his signs.

ثورة الحشر بليلي النائم

وهدوئي في اضطراب دائم

The tumult of the Gathering fills my sleeping night,

And my calm lies in perpetual turmoil.

إنني البستان في آذاره

في عروقي الماء من أمطاره

Indeed, I am the garden in his March;

The water in my veins comes from his rains.

قد غرست العين في حقل الوداد

من سراح العين لي هذا الحصاد

I have planted my eye in the field of affection;

From the eye's roaming, this harvest is mine.

قد شأى الدارين من يثرب طيب

حبذا دار بها مثوى الحبيب

A fragrance from Yathrib has surpassed both worlds;

How lovely the abode where the Beloved dwells!

أنا للجامي في الشعر فداء

نظمه والنثر من جهلي دواء

In poetry, I would sacrifice myself for Jami;

His verse and prose are a cure for my ignorance.

قال بيتا بالمعاني يفهق

فيه در من مديح يبرق

He spoke a verse overflowing with meanings;

In it, pearls of praise gleam.

هو عنوان كتاب العالمين

سيد الكونين مولى الثقلين

He is the title of the book of the worlds,

Master of both worlds, lord of humankind and jinn.

كم يريك العشق من صهبائه

فترى التقليد من أسمائه

How much love reveals to you through its tawny wine!

So you see emulation among its names.

أحكم العشق بتقليد الحبيب

لتنال القرب من رب مجيب

Make love firm by emulating the Beloved,

To attain nearness to a Lord who answers.

في حراء القلب فاقعد خاليا

وإلى الحق فهاجر راضيا

In the heart's Hira, sit, then, alone,

And migrate willingly toward the Truth.

أقوين بالحق ثم ارجع إليك

واحطمن اللات والعزى لديك

Grow strong through the Truth, then return to yourself,

And shatter al-Lat and al-Uzza within you.

قوين بالعشق في سلطانه

وابتغ الحلوة في فارانه

Strengthen yourself through love in its dominion,

And seek sweetness in its Faran.

تظفرن بالقرب ياذا السائل

وتكن تفسير إني جاعل

You shall attain nearness, O questioner,

And become the interpretation of 'Indeed, I am appointing.'