يا من يغيث الورى من بعد ما قنطوا

بنشر رحمته غيثاً إذا قحطوا

O You who bring relief to humankind after they despair,

By spreading Your mercy as rain when drought afflicts them.

أنت الغياث وأنت المستغاث به

ارحم عبيداً أكفّ الفقر قد بسطوا

You are the succor, and You are the One whose aid is sought.

Have mercy on servants who have stretched out poverty's palms

واسترسلوا جودك المعهود فاسقهمُ

سقياً ندى رحمةٍ فالقبض منبسط

And trusted in Your accustomed bounty; so give them drink,

A drenching of mercy's dew, so constriction opens into ease.

والغيث يروي فيروون الحديث به

ريّاً يريهم رضاً لم يثنه سخط

And rain quenches thirst, and they recount its story—

A quenching that shows them favor no wrath has turned aside.

وعامل الكلّ باللطف الّذي ألفوا

فالكلّ في عقد نظم الفضل منسمط

And treat everyone with the kindness they have known,

For all are strung in the ordered necklace of bounty.

هم تحت حكم مراد الحقّ ما خرجوا

يا عادلاً لا يُرى في حكمه شطط

They have never left the rule of the True One's will.

O Just One, in whose judgment no injustice is seen.

إنّ البهائم أضحى الترب مرتعها

ومنه مربعها لا الأثل والخمط

Indeed, dust has become the beasts' grazing ground,

And from it comes their spring pasture—not tamarisk or bitter-fruited trees.

تروح والريح مرعاها إذا سرحت

والطير تغدو من الحصباء تلتقط

They return at dusk, with wind for pasture when they roam.

And birds go out at dawn, pecking among the gravel.

والأرض من حلّة الأزهار عاريةٌ

وما على ظهرها من زهرها مرط

And the earth is bare of its robe of blossoms;

And no mantle of its flowers lies upon its back.

حتّى رياض روابيها معطّلةٌ

كأنّها ما تحلّت بالنبات قَطُ

Even the meadows of its hills lie unadorned,

As though it had never adorned itself with vegetation.

وأنت أكرم مفضال تمدّ له

أعناقُ آمالِ مَن أعمالهم حبطوا

And You are the most generous giver, toward whom stretch

The necks of the hopes of those whose deeds have come to nothing.

إلى أياديك يا ذا الجود قد رفعت

أيدي العصاة وإن جاروا وإن قنطوا

Toward Your favors, O Possessor of bounty, have been raised

The hands of sinners, though they have done wrong and though they have despaired.

ناجوك والليل حلّاه الظلام سناً

كأنّه فود زنجيٍّ به وخط

They whispered to You, while darkness adorned the night with radiance,

As though it were a black African man's temple-lock, flecked with gray.

حلّاه نور التجلّي بالبها سحراً

كما يجلّي سواد اللمّة الشمط

The light of divine manifestation adorned it with splendor before dawn,

As gray hair brightens the blackness of the locks.

فشاربٌ بذَنوب الذنب غصّ به

ووارد بحر عفوٍ ليس ينضبط

So one drinks from sin's bucket, choking on it,

And one comes to a sea of pardon that knows no bounds.

ومجرِمون من الخيرات قد خلصوا

وآخرون كما أخبرتنا خلطوا

And sinners who have become devoid of good deeds,

And others who, as You told us, have mixed good with evil.

ومن همُ في كديد العيش وهو يُرى

له الحجاب عن الأبواب منكشط

And those amid life's hardship, while one sees

The veil stripped away from the doors for them.

ومن يرى عبد سوءٍ وهو منتظم

في سلك من جاء حول العرش ينخرط

And one seen as a wicked servant, though he is strung

On the thread of those who come to join the ranks around the Throne.

وملحدٌ يدّعي ربّاً سواك له

وجاحد في حضيض الكفر منهبط

And a heretic claiming a lord other than You for himself,

And a denier sunk into the lowest depths of unbelief,

ودائرٌ في ضلالٍ من عقائده

حيران في شرك الأشراك يختبط

And one circling in the error of his beliefs,

Bewildered, stumbling in the snare of snares.

كلٌّ ينال من المقدور قسمته

والكلّ في قبر قهر الأمر منضغط

Each receives his share of what is decreed,

And all are pressed into the grave of the decree's compelling force.

وهم كما العلم قدماً سابقاً برزوا

قومٌ ترقّوا وقومٌ في الهوى سقطوا

And they appeared as prior knowledge had foreseen of old:

Some ascended, and others fell into desire.

حكمٌ من الله عدلٌ في بريّته

وهم بسمط القضا في نظمه نمط

A just judgment from God among His creatures;

And they form a pattern in the threaded necklace of destiny.

لم نعترض ذا ظهورٍ في مظاهره

فرض علينا له التسليم مشترط

We have not questioned the One manifest in His manifestations;

Submission to Him is a duty imposed and required of us.

وما ذنوب الورى في جنب رحمته

إلّا كحرفٍ بأيدي الفيض ينكشط

And the sins of humankind, compared with His mercy,

Are but a letter scraped away by the hands of the flood.

بل نقطة في بحار العفو قد سقطت

وهل تقاسُ بفيض الأبحر النقط

Rather, a drop fallen into the seas of pardon;

And can drops be compared with the oceans' overflow?

فما لنا ملجأٌ إلّا الكريم ومن

في عقد رحمته بالنظم ننسمط

So we have no refuge but the Generous One, and the One

In the necklace of whose mercy we are strung—

الأوّل الآخر الذخر الغياث ومن

يلقى على الحوض وهو السابق الفرط

The First, the Last, the treasure, the succor—and the one

Who is met at the Pool, the foremost forerunner.

ذاك الرسول الّذي كلّ الأنام له

بنيلٍ أعلى مقام الحمد قد غبطوا

That is the Messenger, whom all humankind

Have envied for attaining the highest station of praise.

كما الجميع بذياك الشفيع لنا

يوم القيامة مسرورٌ ومغتبط

Just as all, through that intercessor for us,

Will be joyful and delighted on the Day of Resurrection.

صلّى عليه صلاةً لا نفاد لها

مقرونةً بسلامٍ فيه ترتبط

May He bestow upon him a blessing that has no end,

Joined with peace, in which it is bound,

بربط مولىً تعالى خصّه بهما

من اسمه باسمه في الذكر مرتبط

By the bond of the exalted Lord, who favored him with both—

The one whose name is linked with His name in the Reminder.