Claude 2

  1. بأبي أنتَ وأمّي

    يا أميرَ المؤمِنينا

    By my father and mother,

    O Commander of the Faithful,

  2. بأبي أنت وأمّي

    وبِرهطِ أجمعينا

    By my father and mother,

    And by all our kin,

  3. وبأهلي وبمالي

    وبَناتي والبَنينا

    By my family and wealth,

    My daughters and sons,

  4. وفدتكَ النفسُ منّي

    يا إمامَ المُتَّقينا

    My soul I sacrifice for you,

    O Imam of the righteous,

  5. وأمينَ اللهِ والوا

    رثَ علمَ الأوّلينا

    The Trustee of Allah and heir,

    To the knowledge of the ancients,

  6. ووصيَّ المصطفى أح

    مدَ خيرِ المُرسَلينا

    Successor of Mustafa Ahmad,

    The best of those sent,

  7. ووليُّ الحوضِ والذا

    ئدَ عنهُ المحدِثينا

    Master of the Basin, whom

    The narrators mention,

  8. أنت أولى الناسِ بالنا

    س وخيرُ الناس دينا

    You are the foremost of people,

    And the best of people in religion,

  9. كنتَ في الدنيا أخاه

    يومَ يَدعو الأقربينا

    You were his brother in life

    When he called his kin

  10. لِيجيبوه إلى الل

    هِ فكانوا أربَعينا

    To answer Allah's call-

    Forty men they had been,

  11. بين عمٍّ وابنِ عمٍّ

    حولَه كانوا عَرينا

    Uncles and cousins,

    Around him, a shelter,

  12. فورثتَ العلم منهُ

    والكتابَ المُستَبينا

    So you inherited his knowledge

    And the clear book from him,

  13. طبتَ كَهلاً وغُلاماً

    ورَضيعاً وجَنينا

    Upright as an elder and youth

    And infant and embryo too,

  14. ولدى الميثاقِ طيناً

    يومَ كان الخلقُ طِينا

    At the covenant of clay

    When creation was but clay,

  15. كنتَ مأموناً وجيهاً

    عند ذي العرشِ مَكينا

    You were trusted and eminent,

    To the Lord of the Throne, assured,

  16. في حجابِ النّور حيّاً

    طَيِّباً للطاهِرينا

    Alive, goodly, in the veil of Light

    For the purified.