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وبه قد توسل الأنبياء

How the trustees attained your glory,

And through it the prophets pleaded,

ما لخلق سوى النبي وسبطيه

السعيدين هذه العلياء

None of the creations but the Prophet and his two grandsons,

These sublime ones,

فبكم آدم استغاث وقد مسته

بعد المسرة الضراء

So through you Adam pleaded when he was touched

After the affliction and distress,

يوم أمسى في الأرض فردا غريبا

ونأت عنه عرسه حواء

The day he became in the land a lonely stranger,

And his wife Eve deserted him,

وبكا نادما على ما بدا منه

وجهد الصب الكئيب البكاء

And he regretted what appeared from him,

Exerting the crying of the sad weeping,

فتلقى من ربه كلمات

شرفتها من ذكر كم أسماء

So he received from his Lord words,

Honored by the mention of your names,

فاستجيب الدعاء منه ولولا

ذكركم ما استجيب منه الدعاء

So the supplication was answered from Him, and had it not been

For the mention of you, the supplication would not have been answered from Him,

ثم يعقوب قد دعا مستجيرا

من بلاء بكم فزال البلاء

Then Jacob supplicated seeking protection

From affliction through you, so the affliction was removed

وأتاه بكم قميص يوسف وارتد

بصيرا وتمت النعماء

And through you came to him Joseph's shirt, and he returned

Seeing, and the blessings were complete,

وبكم كان للخليل ابتهال

ودعاء لربه واشتكاء

And through you was the supplication of Abraham,

And his prayer to his Lord and his complaining,

حين ألقاه عصبة الكفر في النار

فما ضر جسمه الالقاء

When the gang of disbelief threw him into the fire,

So throwing did no harm to his body,

أيضام الخليل من بعد ما كان

إليكم له هوى التجاء

Also after what Abraham was, through you was his inclination

To resort and lean on you,

وبكم يونس استغاث ونوح

إذ طغا الماء واستجد العناء

And through you Jonah and Noah pleaded

When the water overflowed and hardship intensified

وبأسماءكم توسل أيوب

فزالت عنه بها الأسواء

And through your names Job pleaded

So the calamities were removed from him,

ياله سوددا منيعا رفيعا

قد رواه الأعداء والأولياء

Oh what an impenetrable, high, sublime one

Narrated by the enemies and friends,

لعلي مجد غدا دون أدناه

الثريا في البعد والجوزاء

Ali has glory tomorrow below which is

Lofty in distance and time

هو فضل وعصمة ووفاء

وكمال ورأفة وحياء

It is grace, infallibility, loyalty

And perfection, kindness and shyness

ولكم نال سوددا لم يبن كنه

علاه الإنشاد والإنشاء

And through you the ever impenetrable attained what the reciting and composing did not encompass

His sublime qualities

والحروف التي تركبت العليا

منها عين ولام وياء

And the letters that composed the sublime "Aly"

Are the letters `ain, laam and yaa

كان نورا محمد وعلي

في سنا آدم له لألاء

The light of Mohammad and Ali

In the lifetime of Adam had splendor

أخذ الله كل عهد وميثاق

له إذ بدا سنا وسناء

God took every covenant and pact

From him when his brilliance and splendor appeared

أي فخر كفخره والنبيون

عليهم عهد له وولاء

What pride like his pride, and the prophets

Have a covenant to him and loyalty

وبه يعرف المنافق إذ كانت

له في فؤاده بغضاء

And through him the hypocrite is recognized, if he held

Hatred for him in his heart

ولعمري من أول الأمر لا تخفى

على ذي البصيرة السعداء

And by my life from the beginning it does not escape

He who has insight and perception

ولدته منزها أمه ما

شانه في الولادة الأقذاء

His immaculate mother gave birth to him

His status in childbirth did not touch the impure

داخل الكعبة الشريفة لم يدن

إليها من الأنام النساء

Inside the Sacred Kaaba, no women

Of people approached it

لاح منه نور فأشرقت الأرض

وأرجاؤها به والسماء

A light shone from him and the earth lit up

And its corners by it and the sky

كان للدين في ولادته مثل

أخيه مسرة وازدهاء

For religion at his birth there was

Like his brother joy and delight

يا له مولدا سعيدا تجلت

عن محياه بهجة غراء

Oh what a fortunate birth, his bashfulness

Radiated joyous charm

فهنيئا له لفاطمة السعد

الذي ما له مدى وانتهاء

So congratulations to him, to happy Fatimah

That has no extent and no end

بل لدين الاسلام من غير شك

وارتياب قد كان ذاك الهناء

But to the religion of Islam without doubt

And suspicion, that was the delight

وأتت منه في علي نصوص

لم يحم حول ربعها الاحصاء

And through him clear scripts came

That statistics did not encompass

قال فيه هذا وليي وصيي

وارثي هكذا روى العلماء

He said about him “This is my successor and my trustee”

And my inheritor, thus narrated the scholars

وزعمتم بأن كل نبي

لم يرث منه ماله الأقرباء

And you claimed that every prophet

Did not inherit his money for his next of kin

هو مولى من كان مولاه نصا

منه فليترك الهوى والمراء

He is the master of whoever had him as their master by his explicit text

So let him abandon illusion and controversy

ودعا بعدها دعاء مجابا

وبه قد تواتر الأنباء

And he supplicated after it an answered prayer

And through it spread the news

للمعالي بين الورى يا علي بن

أبي طالب إليك انتهاء

For the most high among people, Oh Ali son

of Abu Talib lies the destination

وكذا للكمال منك وللسودد

والمجد والفخار ابتداء

And so for perfection from you, and for the ever impenetrability

And glory, and pride the beginning

للورى لو درى الورى بك من

بعد أخيك الطهر الأمين اهتداء

If the people know you after

Your brother the immaculate honest guide

واجب بالنصوص منه عن الله

وأين المصغي بك الاقتداء

Obligatory by his scripts from God

And where is the one emulating you

ثم يوم الغدير هل كان إلا

لك دون الأنام ذاك الولاء

Then on the Day of Ghadeer, was it not

For you alone that allegiance

وم مات النبي كنت إماما

في العلا لم يساوك النظراء

And when the Prophet died you became the Imam

Supremely knowledgeable, unmatched by peers