ضربت سعاد خيامها بِفؤادي

من قَبل سفك دَمي بسفح الوادي

My heart struck Saada's tent

Before shedding my blood on the valley's slope

وَغدت تجرعني الهموم فمن لي

قصمت عراه شماتة الحساد

She made me drink sorrows, so who is there for me?

The envious broke its poles out of spite

وَكأَنَّني وَكأَنَّها متودد

متلطف لظويلم متمادي

As if I and she are lovers

Affectionate, intimate, persisting

لعب الفراق بها وَبي فَلَها وَلي

خبر كوى كبدي بغير زناد

Parting toyed with her and I, so for her and me

There is news that burned my liver without flint

وتوعرت طرق التَواصل بَينَنا

فغدوت نضو صبابة وَبعاد

The paths of communication between us became rugged

So I became a companion of distance and remoteness

ما كان حجة من أَقام بِمَكَّة

أَن لا يحدثني حَديث سعاد

One who stayed in Mecca had no excuse

To not talk to me about Saada

بعثت إِلي من الحجاز خَيالها

شتان بين بلادها وَبلادي

She sent me from Hijaz her image

What a difference between her lands and mine!

يا هذه عودتني أَلم الضنا

وأَراكَ لست أَراك في العواد

O you who returned my pain of pining

And I see you, but don't see you at the reunion

وَبأى آونة أَزورك بَعدَما

حملت هجرك أَضعف الاجساد

And when will I visit you after

Bearing your separation burdened my weak body?

فجق حقك ان ملكت فأسحجي

شيم الكِرام وان أَسرت فَفادى

Demand your right if you have power and pardon generously

It is the manner of the honorable, and if you capture then ransom

فَقف المطيّ وَلَو كلمحة ناظر

بربا المحصب أَو مني يا حادي

Stop the rider even for a glance

At Rabba's camp or are you, O guide, leaving?

وأعد حَديثك عَن أباطح مكة

وَعن الفَريق أَرائح أَم غادي

And repeat your talk about Abtah's valley in Mecca

And about the caravan, does it go or return?

وَمسرة للناظرين بدت لَنا

ما بين سوق سويقة وَجياد

A joy for onlookers appeared to us

Between Suwayqah market and Jiad

قنصت عقول أَولى النهي بحبائل

الصبوات لا بِحَبائل الصياد

She hunted the minds of the refined ladies with snares

Not with the hunter's snares

وَمحاسن طلعت طَلائعهن عَن

حلل الكمال لحاضر وَلبادي

And beauties whose first signs

Were of perfect gowns for residents and nomads

عكفت بساحتها الرفاق وانما

عكفوا عَلى كبد من الاكباد

The friends hovered around her abode

Yet they hovered over a blazing liver

هطل الغمام عَلى الحطيم وَزَمزَم

وَعَلى بقاع بالنقا وَوهاد

The clouds poured on the ruins, Zamzam

And on the plains of Naga and Wahad

وَسَرى النَسيم بطيب نسمة طيبة

فنشقت نفحة عنبر وَجساد

The soft breeze blew with a soft fragrance

So a waft of musk and perfume diffuse

بلد سمت أَوطانه وَتشرفت

بمحمد قمر الكمال الهادي

A country its lands were ennobled and honored

By Muhammad, the guiding full moon

فمر محادين الضَلالة بالهدى

وأذل أَهل البَغي والالحاد

The misguided passed with guidance

And the wrongful and atheists were humiliated

قمر أَضاء النور لَيلة وَضعه

من مكة لدمشق أَو بغداد

A moon that illuminated the light the night he was born

From Mecca to Damascus or Baghdad

قمر حمى الدين الحَنيف بسيفه

شرفا وأحرز سبق كل جهاد

A moon that protected the true faith with his sword

With honor, achieving precedence over all strife

قمر أَباد المشركين بسادة

فاقَت عزائمهم عَلى الآساد

A moon that destroyed the pagans, their chiefs

Their resolves failed against the lions

قمر سقى الجَيش العَظيم بكفه

نهرا أَزالَ غَليل كل فؤاد

A moon who quenched with his palm the great army

A stream that removed all hearts' anguish

هُوَ أَشرَف العربين مجدا باذخا

وأحق من يَعلو عَلى الامجاد

He is the most noble of Arabs in glorious distinction

And most deserving to rise above glories

هُوَ شمس عبد مناف العلياعات

مضر بجديه عَلى الانجاد

He is the sun of lofty Abd Manaf

Mudar, his ancestry upon ancestries

هُوَ جاوز السبع السَموات العلى

وَالعرش فيما صح من اسناد

He transcended the highest seven heavens

And the Throne, according to authentic narrations

هُوَ في الجَلالة قال سيده له

سل ما تحب فأَنتَ خير عبادي

In majesty, his Master told him

"Ask what you wish, you are the best of My servants."

هُوَ خير من كمل الاناس به من ال

أَبناء والآباء والاجداد

He is the best of people, perfected through him

Sons, fathers, and forefathers

هُوَ سيد الكَونين وَالثقلين لا

شمه له في الغور والانحاد

He is the master of the two races, mankind and jinn

Without equal in valor and loneliness

هُوَ أَكرَم الكُرماء ان عصفت به

ريح السماح وأجود الاجواد

He is the most generous of the generous, if

The wind of tolerance blew at him, most generous

هُوَ ذخرتي هو موئلى وَمأملي

هُوَ عمدتي هو عدتي وَعتادي

He is my treasure, my refuge and hope

My pillar, my weaponry and supplies

هُوَ أَحمَد الهادي المجاهد والَّذي

يروى بكوثره الغَليل الصادي

He is Ahmad the Guide, the fighter who

Quenches with his pool the thirsty pilgrim

هُوَ تحت ساق العرش يسجد شافِعا

في الخلق ان حشروا الى الميعاد

Beneath the Throne he prostrates interceding

For people on the Day they are gathered for Judgement

هُوَ مَن يَلوذ غدا بظل لوائه

كل الوَرى وَالرسل والاشهاد

He is the one under whose banner shade

All people, messengers, and witnesses will flock

هُو عمدة الامم الَّتي لَو لَم يَكُن

فيها لقد كانَت بغير عماد

He is the pillar of nations, that had he not been

Among them, they would have no pillar

هُو هازم الاقران في فتكاته

وَمدمر العشرات بالآحاد

He is the defeater of peers in his conquests

And destroyer of tens in single combats

ما ان رجوت به الهدى لِضَلالَتي

الا لقيت بها صلاح فَسادى

I did not hope to be guided from my misguidance

Except that I found through it reform of my loss

مَولاي خد بيدي وأقض حَوائجي

واعطف عَليّ ولبّ حين أُنادي

My Master, take my hand and fulfill my needs

And show me kindness, respond when I call

واقبل خويدمك المعلم انه

فلس من التَقوى قَليل الزاد

Accept your humble, deficient servant

With little piety, meager provision

حملت ذي النفس الضَعيفة ثقلها

وَشغلت بين أصادق وأعادي

I carried my feeble soul's burden and busied myself

Between friends and foes

في الخيمة انقصمت عراي لزلتي

وَالنار للعاصين بالمرصاد

In the tent, my supports collapsed from my stumbling

And for the disobedient is the ambush of fire

وَعَريض جاهك يا محمد عصمتي

وَكِفايَتي وَهدايَتي وَرَشادي

The breadth of Your bounty, O Muhammad, is my protection

And my adequacy, guidance, and proper path

فاشدد عرا عَبد الرَحيم برحمة

يَلقى بِها في الحشر خير مهاد

So brace the ties of Your servant ar-Rahim with mercy

Whereby he will attain the best resting place amid the Resurrection

واجعل يديك حمى له وَلاهله

وَالصحب والآباء والاولاد

Make Your hands his protection, and his family

Companions, fathers, and children

فَلأنت أَمنع من لجأت اليه في

دار اقامَتي وَمَعادي

For You are more impregnable than any refuge

In the abode of my dwelling and return

واعطف عَليّ بنفحة نبوية

لا نال غاية مطلبي وَمُرادي

And bestow on me a Prophet's breath

By which I obtain the goal of my wish and desire

وَمكارم موصولة بمكارم

وَلطائف وَعَواطِف وَأَيادي

And perfect bounties connected to perfect bounties

And subtle kindnesses and hands

واسمع جواهر أَحرف عربية

زفت اليك فَصيحة الانشاد

And hear the jewels of Arabic letters

Presented to You in recited chant

وانهض بقائلها وَصاحبه فقد

خصاك اذ صدا عَن الوراد

Rise up for their sayer and companion, for he has

Singled You out as he blocked the visitors

فَتَراهما وفدا عليك ليحظيا

يا سَيدي بِكَرامة الوفاد

So may You see them as a delegation to You, to gain

My Master, the honor of visitors

وَتول كاتبها الضَعيف وكن له

يد نصرة من شر كل عناد

And take care of the weak writer, and be for him

A hand of help against any stubbornness

وعليك صَلى اللَه يا علم الهدى

ما ارفضَّ في الاقطار صوب عهاد

Upon You, O Muhammad, the flag of guidance

Wherever the quarters of settled abode face

وَعلى صحابتك الكرام الزهر ما

نادىّ بحي عَلى الصَلاةمنادى

And upon Your noble companions, the blossoms, whenever

A caller calls: Come to prayer!