أسنا جبينك أم صباح مسفرٍ

وشذا أريجك أم عبير أذفر

Is your forehead the morning sun or a radiant dawn?

Is your scent the aroma of flowers or fragrant thyme?

أهلاً بطلعتك التي ما أسفرت

إلا وليل الهم عنا يدبر

Welcome your rising, which did not dawn,

Except the night of worries from us wanders.

بل عاد ذابل روض آمال الورى

غضا ولا عجب فإنك جعفر

Rather, the garden of hopes of creation has withered,

No wonder, for you are Ja'far.

وتبسمت أرض الغري مسرةً

بك بعدما عبست فكادت تزهر

And the land of exile smiled happily,

With you after frowning, it almost blossomed.

ومدارس العلم استنارت مذ بدا

فيها محياك البهيج الأنور

The schools of knowledge were illuminated when

Your shining smile appeared in them.

واستبشرت فرحاً بك العلماء بل

كل الأنام وحق أن يستبشروا

The scholars were overjoyed with you, rather,

All the people, and rightly they should rejoice.

كنا بفرقته بأعظم وحشةٍ

وبعوده عاد السرور الأكبر

We were in great loneliness without him,

And with his return the greatest joy returned.

فكأننا روض تجانبه الحيا

فذوي وعاوده فأصبح يزهر

It is as if we are a garden, life avoided it,

Then its loved ones returned so it blossomed.

وكأنه شمس فيغشى الليل إن

غابت ويبدو الصبح مهما تسفر

It is as if he is a sun that overcomes the night,

When absent appears the dawn no matter how much the sun rises

سبحان من أحيى الورى بمعانٍ

بنواله موتى الخصاصة تنشر

Glory to the One who revived creation with meanings

By which the dead souls of inability revive.

هو جعفر لا بل هو البحر الذي

كم فاض بحر من نداه وجعفر

He is Ja'far, no, he is the sea which

Overflowed with the sea of his generosity and Ja'far.

والحمد للَه الذي أولاه من

آلائه ما الشكر عند يقصر

Thanks to God who endowed him from

His bounties, gratitude falls short before it.

ودعاه فضلاً من لدنه لبيته

وقراه من جدواه ما لا يحصر

And called him to grace from His presence to His house,

And made him recite His proximity beyond enumeration.

فسرى مسير الشمس في فئةٍ به

حفت كأمثال الكواكب تزهر

He proceeded like the course of the sun among a group,

That revolved around him like the stars shine.

أكرم به وبصحبه من سادةٍ

كرمت سجاياهم وطاب العنصر

Honor through him and through his companionship

Of masters whose virtues were noble and ancestry pure.

لا سيما صدر الأفاضل محسن

كنز العلوم المحسن المتبحر

Especially the foremost of the virtuous, Muhsin

The treasure of knowledge, the expert navigator.

وجواد الندب الجواد جلال أر

باب الجلال وعزهم والمفخر

And the generous call, the generous Jalal

The manifestation of majesty, their honor and pride.

وسمي حجتي العلي محمد

وعلي الطهر الزكي الأطهر

And appoint my authority, Ali Muhammad,

And Ali the pure, the most pure.

أعني سليل الأعسم الحبر الذي

هو بحر علمٍ مده لا يجزر

I mean the descendant of Al-A'sam, the scholar who

Is an endless sea of knowledge that cannot be contained.

وسليل صادق الصدوق محمد

والنعمة الكبرى التي لا تنكر

And the descendant of Sadiq al-Sadiq, Muhammad,

And the greatest blessing that cannot be denied.

قوم تردوا بالعلى وتقمصوا

بالمكرمات وبالعفاف تأرروا

A people who excel in virtue and emulate

In generosity and chastity they were impressed.

وقد اقتفوا مناهج من عن فضله

أقلام أرباب البلاغة تقصر

They followed the paths of one whose virtue

The pens of rhetoricians fall short of.

أكرم به من مقتف من يهتدي

بهداه يحظى بالنجاح ويظفر

Honor through the one who follows his guidance,

Attains success and gains victory.

ذاك الذي لولاه ما وخدت إلى

جمع بهم قب البطون الضمر

That one without whom cheeks would not be rubbed

Against the graves of ancestors with affection.

مولىً به بطحاء مكة أشرقت

وبنور عرته أضاء المشعر

My master through whom the plain of Mecca shone

And by the light of his family the Masha'ir was illuminated.

بهجت بوطأته المواقف واغتدى

بعض ينهي بعضها ويبشر

The holy places were delighted by his treading,

Some completing others and giving good tidings.

ولقد غدا الحرم الشريف به على

ما فيه من فخر يتيه ويفخر

The noble sanctuary became proud of what in it

Is of pride that wanders and prides itself.

مذ طاف طاف به العلاء ومذ سعى

سعت المعالي نحوه والمفخر

Since the eminent revolved around it and when

The sublime ones hastened towards it with pride.

وبلمسه الحجر السعيد يمينه

ربحت وتم له السعود الأوفر

By touching the Black Stone with his right hand,

He gained and the greatest of sovereignties was completed for him.

بل تم للحجر السعود وكاد أن

يبيض بشراً لونه المتغير

Rather, sovereignty was completed for the Black Stone, it almost

Turned white although its color varies.

وعلا مقاماً في المقام كما اعتلى

بمقامه فيه المقام الأنور

And he attained a status in the Station, just as his

Status in it is the most brilliant station.

وأفاض من عرفات بعد وقوفه

فأفيض رضوان عليه أكبر

And he overflowed from Arafat after standing in it

So may God's pleasure overflow upon him in abundance.

جمع الإله له جميع الخير في

جمع فيا للَه جمع مبهر

May God gather for him all good things in

The best gathering, so praise be to God for the dazzling gathering.

نالت مني بمبيته فيها المنى

وصفا به عيش الصفا المتكدر

I gained from its night stay in Minah,

Description of the bitter livelihood of purity.

وبسوقه للهدي سيق له الهدى

وبنحره نحر الحسود الأبتر

By sacrificing his gift, guidance was led to him,

By slaughtering, he slaughtered the envious disowned ones.

ورمى غداة رمى الجمار عداته

بعداً لهم فليخسؤا وليذمورا

And the next morning he stoned the devils,

Bidding them farewell, so may they become despised and perish.

وبأرض طيبةٍ طاب مثواه بنا

طوبى لها أحضت به تتعطر

And in good land his dwelling was blessed through us,

Good fortune to it for being scented with him.

وبزورة المختار نال الغابة ال

قصوى التي عنها الكواكب تقصر

And through visiting Al-Mustafa he attained the

Highest rank, which the stars fall short of reaching.

وسما بزورة آل أحمد رتبةً

بصر البصيرة عن مداها يحسر

He attained through visiting the Family of Ahmad a

Rank which sights fall short of reaching its extent.

فليحمد اللَه الذي في جنب ما

أولاه طولاً كل حمد يصغر

So let him praise God who, despite what

He has given him, all praise falls short.

وليبتهج بشراً بما أرخته

بشرى فقد حج المسدد جعفر

And let mankind rejoice at the good news

Which the tidings have adorned, for Ja'far has made the Pilgrimage.