رَبعُ أسمَاءَ ِإذ هِي الأُنسُ آلا

مُقفِرَ الآيِ لا يُرُدُّ سُؤَالا

The quarters of Asma when they are intimacy, ever

Bare of verses, turns back no question,

لاَ عَبَت صَولَةُ الدَّبُورِ صَبَاهَا

حِقَباً فِيهِ والجَنُوب الشَّمَالا

The prowess of fate did not sport with its youth

A gird in it, and the sides the north and south,

فَانمَحَى واضمَحَلَّ غَيرَ ثَلاَثٍ

كَالقَطَا الجُونِ في التِّلاَعِ حَلاَلا

So it waned and faded but not three

Like partridges in thickets made lawful,

صَاحِ عَرِّج عَلَيهِ إِنَّ بِقَلبي

مَن هَوَاهُ لَلَوعَةً وخَبَالا

Traveler, stop by it, in my heart indeed

Is one who loved longing and misfortune.

إِنَّ غَدراً أن لاَ تُعَرِّجَ في أطلا

لِهِ أو تُحَيِّىَ الأَطلالا

Betrayal indeed not to stop at its ruins

Or to greet vestiges.

والوَفَا أَن تَظَلَّ فِيهِ وأَن تَن

دُبَ أيَامَهُ القِصَارَ الطِّوَالا

And loyalty is to remain in it and spend

Its short and long days.

كَم جَنَينَا بِهِ اللَّهوِ مِن خُو

دٍ تَبَدَّى شَمساً وتَرنُو غَزَالا

How much vain joy we gained with it that appeared

A sun and longed for a gazelle.

تَتَثَنَّى بَاناً وتَبسِمُ نَوراً

مِن أقَاحٍ مَطلُولَةٍ وسَيَالا

It bends, smiling, light

From cheeks well-watered and flooding.

إِن حُبَيِّكَ يا أُسَيمَا عَلَى الصَّد

دِ وإِن كُنتِ لَم تَصُدِّى دَلالا

Your love, O Usayma is sincere though

You did not reciprocate passion.

لَمُرِبٌّ بِالقَلبِ بل زَادَ قَلبي

رَغبَةً فِيكِ أَن صَرَمتِ الحِبَالا

It settled in my inner self, rather my heart

Increased for you in desire when you cut the ropes

وَمنَعتِ الوِصَالَ إِلاَّ خَيَالاً

وخَشِينَا أَن تَمنَعِيهِ خَيَالا

And prevented union except in apparitions

And we feared you would even prevent apparitions.

كُنتُ أحجُو تَجَرُّعَ الصّبرِ صَعب ال

مصَبرِ حتى سُقِيتُ مِنكَ الزَّيَالا

I used to gulp the bitterness of patience with difficulty

Until you quenched me from your bitterness.

فَغَلَت في جَوَانِحِى زَفَرَاتٌ

كَلَّفَتني الإِدبَارَ والإِقبَالا

Sighs welled up in my chest

That tasked me with going and coming.

لَو أصَابَ الجِبَالَ بَعضَ الذي أَل

قاهُ مِن حُبِّهَا لَهَدَّ الجِبَالا

If what he suffered from his love of her struck

Mountains, it would fell mountains.

وأرَاحَ الرَّحِيلُ عَازِبَ هَمِّى

حِينَ شَدُّوا إِلَى الرَّحِيلِ الرِّحَالا

And travel relieved the stranger of my worry

When they marched to travel the cameleers

قَرَّبُوا بُزَّلَ الجِمَالِ فَبَانُوا

وكَسَوا أظهُرَ الجِمَالِ الجَمَالا

Brought the dromedaries of beauty so they appeared

And covered the surfaces of beauty with beauty.

فَكَأنَّ الجِمَالُ والآلُ جَارٍ

تَتَغَشَّى بها الحُدَاةُ الرِّمَالا

So it is as if beauty and dromedaries passing

The sands are covered by them.

سُفُنُ يَقصُدُ الخِضَمُّ بها المَي

لُ وتَنحُو بها النَّواتِى إعتِدَالا

Ships the guide heads with them to the harbor

And the camels stride with them steadily

أَو طِوَالُ النَّخِيلِ عَالَينَ قِنوَا

ناً مِنَ البُسرِ إِذ رَوِينَ زُلالا

Or the tall palms lofty platforms

Of sweet water when they were watered.

كُلُّ وَهمٍ عَالِيهِ خِدرٌ عَلَيه

مِن عِتَاقِ الأَنمَاطِ رَقمٌ مُعَالَى

Every high concern is powerless over them

From freeing exemplars an exalted model.

حُقَّ لِلدَّمعِ أن يَكُون مُذَالاً

ولِطفلِ المَهدِ المَشِيبُ قَذَالا

It is the right of tears to be copious

And the child of the cradle to have white hair.

أصبَحَت سُنَّةُ النبي مُعَفَّا

ةً يَجُرُّ الهَوَى بِهَا الأَذيَالا

The way of the Prophet has become neglected

Rope of passion is pulled by it.

أصبَحَت صُحبَةُ الهُداةِ إِلَى الل

هِ وذِكُرُ الإِلهِ جَهراً ضَلاَلا

The company of guides to God and loud

Remembrance of God became misguidance.

أصبَحَ الأَولِيَاءُ عِندَ أُولِى العِل

مِ أُولِى السَّجنِ في الحَضِيضِ مَحَالا

The friends to scholars became prisoners

In the dungeons in lowly stations.

والشُّيُوخُ الرَّاقُونَ أعلَى مَقَامَا

تِ التَّرَقِى يُرمَون قِيلاً وقَالا

And the perspicacious sheikhs, the highest stages

Of spiritual ascent are vilified by them.

وَيُسبُّونَهُم وهُم في المُصَلَّى

في اللِّيَالِى المُظلِمَاتِ إمتِثَالا

They insult them while they are in the mosque

At night vigils obediently.

ويَعِيبُونَ أحذَهُم لِلهَدَايَا

وَيقُولُونَ يَجمَعُونَ المَالا

And they condemn the best of them for gifts

And say they hoard money.

جَهِلُوا أخذَ المُصطفي المُنَحَمِنَّا

لِلهَدِيَّاتِ يَمنةً وشِمَالا

They are ignorant the Elect accepted gifts

With his right and left hands.

أيُحُبُّ النبي مَالاً وقَد عَف

فَ لِزُهدٍ عَنِ النُّضَارِ جِبَالا

Does the Prophet love money when he renounced

To asceticism mountains of detachment?

كُلُّ مَا شَاهَدُوا وهُمُ جَاهِلُوهُ

أنكَرُوُهُ وعَيَّروُا الجُهَّالا

Everything they witnessed while ignorant of it

They denied and blamed the ignorant.

يُنكِرُونَ الفَتحَ الإلهِىَّ والذَّو

قَ اللَّدني والشُّهودُ إعتدَالا

They deny divine openings and ecstasy

While the witnesses are composed.

حَسِبُوا أن لَن يُعَطِىَ الله مَا لَم

يُعطِهُم غَيرَهُم فَحَازُوا النَّكَالا

They thought God would not give what

He did not give them so they suffered loss.

جَمَعُوا غِيبَةً وعُجباً وجَهلاً

ألِفُوا هَذِهِ الثَّلاَثِ خِصَالا

They gathered backbiting, arrogance and ignorance

Befriended these three traits.

حَكَّمُوا العَامَةَ التى أكسَبَت بَع

ضَ مَن أغرَوا بالإعتِزَالِ اعتِزَالا

They appointed the masses which some of those

They seduced with seclusion seduced with seclusion.

لاَ تَلُومَنَّهم فَالإنكَارُ يُبقِي

في نُهَى شَارِبِيهِ دَاءً عُضَالا

Do not blame them, denial maintains

In its prohibitors an intransigent disease.

إِنَّهُم عَن قَبُولِهِم مُعجِزَاتِ ال

أَنبِيَا بِاعتِقَادِهم لَكُسَالَى

They are incapable of accepting miracles of

Prophets by their believing sorcerers.

ما دَرَوا أنَّ أعبُدَ اللهِ مِنهُم

مَن يَبَرَّ الإلَهُ إِن هُو آلَى

They did not know the most worshipping of God among them

Is one God exalts if He takes.

أيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّ الإنكَارَ صَعبٌ

فَأطِيعُوا فِيهِ الإلهَ تَعالَى

O people, denial is difficult

So obey God the Exalted in it.

إِنَّمَا يُنكِرُ البَصِيرُ بِغيضَا

تِ الفُنُونِ المُفَتِّحُ الأقفَالا

None denies but the accomplished who unlocked

Secrets of sciences leaving no ambiguity.

بَعدَ إتقانِهِ لِسَبعِينَ فَنًّا

لَم يَدَع في عَوِيصِهَا إشكالا

He mastered seventy arts

Leaving in their difficulty no complexity.

فِعلَ مَن مَالَ دِينُهُ أصلاً أو مَن

كَانَ في الدِّينِ مُستَقِيماً فَمَالا

So one whose religion inclined or one who

In religion is upright has not deviated.

لَيسَ إلا فالمُستَقِيمُ بَرىءٌ

حُقَّ لِلحَقِّ وَاضِحاً أَن يُقَالا

The upright one is innocent, the right of reality

To state clearly is deserving to be stated.

ومَنِ المُنكِرِينَ مَن قَالَ هَذَا

ضَيعَ الدِّينَ بالذي فِيهِ قَالا

And among the deniers are those who said this

Squandered religion by what was stated in it.

وَمحلُّ الأنكَارِ إِن قِيلَ هَذَا

كَانَ أهلاً لَهُ وعَزَّ مَنَالا

The place of condemnation, if it is said this

Was worthy of it, and difficult is attainment.

أن يَرَى الفِعلَ في المُحَرَّمِ نَصًّا

لَم يَجِد فِيهِ لِلحَلاَلِ إحتِمَالا

Is to see the action in prohibition explicitly

Finding no interpretation allowing lawfulness in it

أو يَرَى القَولَ صَادَمَ الذِّكرَ أو صَا

دَمَ لِلمُصطفي الأمِينِ مَقَالا

Or to see the statement opposing the remembrance or opposing

Of the Trustworthy Prophet an utterance

لَم تَفُق لَو تَأمَّلَ المُنكِرُ الأثقَا

لَ لَكِن لَم يَنظُرِ الأَنقَالا

Finding no understanding though the denouncers pondered principles

But the ostriches did not look with scrutiny.

دَعوَةُ العَالِمِ الحَلاَلَ حَرَاماً

دَعوَةَ الجَاهِلِ الحَرَامَ حَلاَلا

The call of a scholar making the lawful prohibited

And the call of an ignorant making prohibited lawful.

أيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّ مَن قَالَ في الشَّي

خِ مَقَالاً لم يَقصُدِ الإِجلالا

O people, one who said about a sheikh a statement

Not intending reverence

حَشَّ مِنَّا حَرباً فَنَحنُ عِيَالُ الشَّي

خِ نَبأى بِأن نَكُونَ عِيَالا

Has provoked war against us for we are charges of the sheikh

We disavow having dependents.

مَن أتَانَا مُجَادِلاً فِيهِ ألقَمنَا

هُ صَخراً لَم يُبقِ فِيهِ جِدَالا

One who came arguing with us about him we stuffed

A boulder leaving in him no dispute.

وإذَا جَاءَ سَائِلاً صَافي القَل

بِ أَجَبنا بِالحَقِّ مِنهُ السُّؤالا

And when one came pure of heart asking

We answered the question truthfully.

جَنِّبُوا القَولَ فِيهِ لا تَجلِبُوا مَا

لَم تُطِيقُوا دَفعاً لَهُ حِينَ صَالا

Avoid talk about him, do not attract what

You cannot repel when it turns intense.

مَن يَقُل فِيهِ قُلتُ فِيهِ وسَدَّد

تُ إِلَيهِ مِنَ الهِجَاءِ النِّبَالا

Who says about him I spoke and aimed

At him from vilification arrows.

وإذَا مَا أبَى عَنِ الكَفِّ عَنهُ

قَد أبَى أن أكُفَّ عَنهُ القِتَالا

And when he refuses to refrain from it

I refuse to refrain from fighting him.

فَهوَ الشَّيخُ أَحمَدُ المُتَحَلِّى

بِاتِّبَاعِ الرُّسُولِ صَحواً وحَالا

He is Sheikh Ahmed al-Mutahhari

Following the Messenger vigilantly.

بَارَكَ اللهُ في الذي حَازَ مِن فَض

لٍ وأرقَاهُ والبَقَاءَ أطَالا

May God bless what he gained from grace

And ennobled and prolonged his survival,

وَحَباهُ مِن قُرَّةِ العَينِ مَا يُر

ضِيهِ حَالاَ مُبَارَكاً ومَالا

Bestowed on him the delight of the eye that satisfies him

In a blessed state and wealth.

وحَبَاهُ الرِّضَا وَصلَّى عَلَى مَن

حَازَ عَن كُمِّل الأنَامِ الكَمَالا

And bestowed approval and blessed the one who gained

Perfection from the Perfecter of men.