سَقاك خيام الغور صوب الحيا عهدا

يجدد عنا في معاهدك العهدا

The vales of al-Ghur quenched you towards life anew

Renewing in your covenants the covenant anew

وَلا برحت فيك الرياح مريضة

تَناغى الغصون الخضر وَالقضب الملدا

And the winds in you have not ceased being sick

Moaning to the green branches and the supple reed

وَتنثر در الطل في ظل روضة

ترش يد الانداء في وردها الوردا

Scattering pearls of dew in the garden’s shade

A generous hand sprinkles its roses with rosewater

كأن صبا نجد سقتها مدامة

عبيرية تهدي لمن لم يجدو جدا

As if the morning breeze of Najd watered it

With fragrant wine, gifting it to those in dearth

فَاس خَزاماها وَباتَ حمامها

يغنى وَظل الزند يعتنق الزندا

So it sang its melodies and its baths remained

Singing, while the beauty embraced another beauty

رَعى اللَه اذ كنا برامة حيرة

وَمحكم أصل الاصل قد نسخ الصدا

May God protect us as we were Bani Harithah

When the origin of origins erased tradition

وابكار بكر يسترقن عقولنا

بسحر عيون ان رنت قتلت عمدا

And virgins steal our minds with the magic

Of their eyes, that if they sing, they kill with intent

أَحباب قَلبي كَيفَ أَكتم حبكم

وأَحجده وَالدَمع لا يعرف الجحدا

O beloveds of my heart, how can I hide your love

And bury it, when tears know no denial?

صلواواهجروا فالقَلب راض بفعلكم

فَلَم ار لي عنكم وَلا منكم يدا

Pray, and be harsh, for my heart accepts your actions

I have not seen from or towards you a hand

وَأَحلى الهَوى ان مت في اسر حبكم

فَكَم من أَسير في للصبابة لا يفدى

And the sweetest love is if I die in captivity to you

For how many captives are there of youth not to be ransomed?

وَما ضقت ذرعا دون ادراك مطلب

وَفي الرد من لم يخش سائله الردا

And I have never felt constrained from achieving a goal

And in refusal, for one who does not fear the refusal of his questioner

أَعاد عَلَينا اللَه من بَركاته

وَمد لنا الرحمن في عمره مدا

God has restored upon us from His blessings

And the Compassionate has extended in His age an extension

الى صارم الدين اِنتَهى أَمَلي فَلَم

أَجد قبله قبلا وَلا بعدهبعدا

To Al-Malik Al-Salih my hopes have ended, for before him

I have not found a predecessor, nor after him a successor

مَتى تأته تنزل بواحد أمة

هدى وندى جاء الزَمان به فردا

When will there come to him an exemplar of a community

Whose guidance and light the times brought singularly?

سَجاياه للراجي رَبيع مبارك

وَسبع سمان للزَمان اذا اشتدا

His qualities for the hopeful are a blessed spring

And arrows for the times whenever they grow strict

وَساحته مأوى الغَريب وَماله

عَلى رغم أنف البخل ينهبه الوفدا

And his domain is refuge for the stranger, and his wealth

Is plundered by the palms of stinginess despite its spite

فَتى ينسب الشيخ المبارك جده

كَما ينسب الاشراف خير الوَرى جدا

A youth who traces back to the blessed Shaykh his lineage

Just as the nobility trace back the best of people their lineage

سَقى اللَه مِن قَبري عواجة مشهدا

كَريما تخذناه لحاجتنا قصدا

May God water from my grave a blessed pilgrimage

That we have taken to fulfill our needs intentionally

أَفي روضة القبرين روضة أَحمَد

فتحدى لَها عيس إِلى طيبة تحدى

Is it in the garden of the two tombs, the garden of Ahmad

Which Jesus challenged fair Taybah to compete?

أَم التزم الزوّار حجا وَعمرة

اليها فزموا العبس تطوي الفلا وَخذا

Or have pilgrims obliged themselves with pilgrimage and umrah

To it, so they sought refuge and traversed plains and rugged terrain?

حوى قبرها حجرا أَو بيتا وَمذبحا

وَركنا يمانيا وآخر مسودا

It contains his tomb, a rock or house and shrine

And a Yemeni corner and another blackened one

فَكَم قبلوا تربا وَكَم مسحوا ثرى

وَكَم وَضَعوا الصرا وَكَم فتحوا عقدا

So how many have kissed the soil and how many have wiped the earth

And how many donned ihram and how many opened a knot

وَكَم ثملوا وجداوكمولهو اهوى

وَكَم سكبوا دماوكم عفر واخدا

And how many have been in rapture and how many in fervor swooned

And how many have shed tears and how many cheeks blood has streaked

وَباتوا وَظلوا في رياض أَنيقة

يقل عليها الند لو فرشت ندا

And they have slept and lingered in beautiful gardens

Which even dew would be scarce if it were to furnish it

تخفهم الاملاك من كل جانب

وَتَغشاهم الانوار عن طالع سعدا

The angels shade them from every side

And the lights envelop them at the rise of auspiciousness

لَدىحكمى لم تكن معجزاته

وآياته تحصى برمل الفلا عدا

In my judgment his miracles and signs cannot be numbered

Except by the sands of the dune in counting and reckoning

اذا قالَ يا مَولاي لباه سل تنل

لطائف من لو شاء أَسرى به عَبدا

If he says "O my Master" asking, he attains

Subtleties that if He wished, He could make a servant traverse

وَلَو سير الاجبال سارَت وان دَعا

ذرى صخرة لبت له الصخرة الصلدا

And if He walked on the sea or flew in the air

It would enable him, and truly He has not transgressed limits

وَلَو سار فَوقَ البحر أَو طارَ في الهَوا

لامكنه وَالحق ما جاوز الحدا

Luminous spiritual secrets and wisdoms

Through which God has adorned the earth, honor, and eternity

سَرائر نورانية حكمية

بِها اللَه زان الارض وَالعرض وَالخلدا

Felicitations to you O son of Muhammad

Whose praises in both abodes exhaust all praise

هَنيأ لَك التَعظيم يا ابن محمد

محامد فيالدارين تَستغرق الحمدا

I shepherded the pastures of glory as a child, adolescent

And elder - so who can claim glory alongside you?

رَعيت رياض المجد طفلا وَناشئا

وَكَهلا فمن ذا يدعى معك المجدا

To you hopes retreat though they are strangers

So you comfort them with generosity and sustain them with aid

تَلوذ بك الآمال وَهي غَريبة

فتؤنسها جودا وَتوسعها رفدا

And the guest descends from you to the most fertile plain

So you make lawful for them affection and proffer them roses

وَيَنزل منك الضيف أَخصب ساحة

فَتَحلوا لهم ودا وَتَصفو لهم وردا

Chastity, justice, and excellent traits

Surpassing the winds' encompassment imbued with honey

عفاف وانصاف وَحسن شَمائل

تَفوق شمول الراح مَمزوجَة شهدا

My master, a noble month, and estrangement

And a religion being wrecked, and I have no patience for it

أَيا سَيدي شهر كَريم وَغربة

وَديناقاسيه ولست به جلدا

And absence of children, and distance from dwellings

And brethren whose friendship, their shears have harvested loss

وَغيبة أَطفالوَبعد مَنازِل

واخوان صدق ذبت مناجلهم فقدا

So fulfill my requests and accomplish my hopes

And however much good has shone from me, do not let me tire

فقض لباناتي وانجح مَطالِبي

وَما اِسطَعت من بر فَلا تألنى جهدا

I have remained for God's religion a glory and for the enemies

A sword, and for the hopeful, a seasoned successor

بقيت لدين اللَه عزا وَللعدا

حساما وَللراجين عارفة تسدى

And I remain for the substitutes a successor of predecessors

And a light from the minaret which through you truth is illuminated

وَلا زلت للابدال خالف سالف

وَنور منار استضىء بك الرشدا