أنا عبدك الراجي وأنت المرتجى

حاشى أصادف باب عفوك مرتجا

I am your servant hoping, and you are the hoped

Stay away, may I find the door of your forgiveness hoping

ما هبّ من سنة الصبا إلا رأى

تاج المشيب لراسه قد توّجا

What youth brought except it saw

The crown of old age crowned his head

فأتاك يرجو العفو منك وإنّه

من جاء يرجو العفو منك فقد نجا

So he came to you hoping for forgiveness from you, and he who

Came to you hoping for forgiveness, he succeeded

خالفت نفسي بعد ما حالفتها

وتخذت بعد الغيّ رشدك منهجا

I opposed myself after aligning with it

And I took after error your guidance a method

كم أوقعتني في الهوى نفسي وكم

منها امتطيت جواد لهو مسرجا

How many times did my soul make me fall into passion and how many times

Did I ride from it a horse of vanity saddled

وكم ارتديت ثياب زهو إنما

كانت كليل في الظلام إذا سجا

And how many times did I wear robes of arrogance, but they were

Like darkness when embroidered

فمشيت مختالا بحسن روائها

لكن بها قد صار سيرى أعوجا

So I walked proudly with its narration

But with it my path became crooked

وظننت شكل الزهو يبقى منتجا

فإذا بشكلى لم أجده منتجا

And I thought the image of arrogance remains productive

But then I did not find my image productive

أتقلت ظهري بالذنوب وإنني

من فرط جهلى صرت مفقود الحجا

I burdened my back with sins, and I

Out of my ignorance became lost and unguided

كم مهدت نفسي وشيطان الصبا

طرُقاً وهيّأَ لي لذلك هودجا

How many times did I pave ways for myself and the devil of youth

Prepared for me for that a carriage

وقرعت أبواب الهوى ودخلتها

فعسى ألاقى بعد ذلك مخرجا

And I knocked on the doors of passion and entered them

Hopefully I will find after that a way out

إن لم أجد لي في المصايق ملجأ

فالمصطفى المختار نعم الملتجا

If I do not find for myself in the straits a refuge

Then Al-Mustafa Al-Mukhtar is the best refuge

جاء عريض ليس يدرك شاوه

للّه ما أبى سناه وأبهجا

He came graceful, his wisdom unreachable

By the glory of his face the darkness of night vanished and defeated

من نور وجه المصطفى وجبنه

ولى ظلام الليل وانهزم الدجا

With him we attained glorious victory

And with him we saw the truth white and brilliant

وبه اجتلينا العز بدرا مشرقا

وبه رأينا الحق أبيضَ أبلجا

Brave, he destroyed the polytheists with his determination

He made their multitudes weak and defeated

شهم أباد المشركين بعزمة

جعلى كميّهم الجبان الأهوجا

And made him taste the flavor of death with one strike

It left him in an ocean of blood covered

وأذاقه طعم المنون بضربة

تركته في بحر الدماء مضرّجا

So he established the proof of truth brilliantly

Like the dawn, bright and splendid

فأقام برهان الحقيقة ناصعا

كالصبح وضاح السنا متبلّجا

Sweet is his speech, imagine the beauty of his speech

Like water to the thirsty, fresh and icy

حلو الحديث تخال حسن حديثه

كالماء للظمآن عذبا مثلجا

He surpassed gems in delight and radiance

And the meadow in flowers embroidered

فاق الجواهر بهجة ونضارة

والروض بالزهر النضير مدبجا

His eloquence enchanted creation, when they saw

In his folds the secret of eloquence embedded

سحرت فصاحته النهى لما رأوا

في طيّه سرّ البلاغة مدمجا

And for his beauty, faces bowed in humility

When they saw the light in him threaded

ولحسنه عنت الوجوه تواضعا

لما استبانوا النهور فيه مدرّجا

His proof exhausted eloquent tongues

His eloquence surpassed the dawn splendid

قد أرهق اللسن الفصاح بحجة

فاقت فصاحتها الصباح تبلجا

This is the firm pillar, so whoever wants

Glory without him, remains deprived of hopes

هذا هو الركن الركين فمن يرد

جاها سواه بات مقطوع الرجا

And whoever seeks pride through him and takes refuge in his glory

Attains care and protection and salvation

ومن استعزّ به ولاذ بجاهه

نال العناية والرعاية والنجا

O best of those the mind is exhausted by his perfection

And his aroma spreads in all lands perfumed

يا خير من أعيا الفهوم كماله

وشذاه في كل البقاع تأرّجا

I have none but you as means to the Generous

From the adversities of time that troubled

مالي سواك إلى الكريم وسيلة

من خطب دهر بالحوادث أزعجا

So look, my brother, from the overflow of your favor, he

Became in need of mending the bones dislocated

فانظر أخى من فيض فضلك إنه

اضناه تجبير العظام وأنصجا

And tomorrow is bedridden after he

Had been brave, whether traveling or settled

وغدا طريح فراشه من بعدما

قد كان شهما إن سرى أو أدلجا

So wipe with your generous right hand his weak body

And make for it the share of recovery spread

فامسح بيمناك الكريمة جسمة

واجعل له حظ الشفاء مروّجا

And heal by the truth of your pure family his fracture

For hardship, if you show compassion to him, will be relieved

واجبر بحقّ الطهر آلك كسره

فالكرب إن تعطف عليه فرجا

You are the one who cured the eye of Qatadah

And healed the wounded and treated the injured

أنت الذي أبرأت عين قتادة

وشفيت موجوءا وداويت الوجى

So grant my brother your care, he has become

In need of good care, most wanting

فامنح أخى منك الرعاية إنه

أمسى إلى حسن الرعاية أحوجا

And grant my children, brothers and loved ones

Kindness, through which hostility tastes the affliction

وامنح بنيّ وإخوتي وأحبتي

عطفا يذوق به العدا طعم الشجا

And make my reward a glance and care

And confer upon the weak servant openness

واجعل جزائي لمحة وعناية

وامنن على العبد الضعيف بمارجا

O best of those created and elite of his people

Your sea with dew is forever rippling

يا خيرة المؤلى وصفوة خلقه

لا زال بحرك بالندى متموجا

Far it is that you disappoint while you, you are my means

And in you after God is good hope

حاشا أضام وأنت أنت وسيلتي

وعليك بعد الله حسن المرتجى

I am enamored with praising you O Muhammad

And my praise is devoted to you without digression

إني بمدحك يا محمد مغرم

وعليك مدحى دون غيرك عرّجا

But your attributes O perfecter, fell short

Of them the alphabets and odes

لكن صفاتك يا مكمّل قصّرت

عنها صروف الأبجدية والهجا

May Allah bless you whenever a star shone

And the light of the full moon removed darkness

صلى عليك الله ما نجم زها

وأزال نور البدر أحلاك الدجا