أَمن تذكر أَهل البان والبان

أَم من تبدل جيران بجيران

Do you remember the people of valleys and hills?

Or has neighbor been replaced with neighbor?

جعلت دمعك وَقفا في محاجره

يقبض في الخد هتانا بهتان

You let your tears stop in their orbits

Mocking and mocking in the cheeks

حالى كَمالك أَشتاق النَسيم فَلَو

هب النَسيم لحياني واحياني

My state is like one longing for the breeze, so if

The breeze blows to cheer and enliven me

اني اذا غرد القمرى في سحر

بذى الاراكة أَسهاني وَأَلهاني

When the nightingales sing at dawn

In the sandy valleys they intoxicate and entrance me

وَكلما لاح برق الغور مُبتَسِما

في الفَور حرك أَشجاني وَأَشجاني

And whenever the lightning of the caves smiles

In the sky it excites my sorrows and grief

وَقفت في الحي بعد الظاعنين فان

أَرى سوى الوحش أَو آثار غزلان

I stood in the neighborhood after the looters but

I only see beasts or traces of gazelles

يا دمنة حلها البَلوى فعوّضها

عصما وَعفرا بقضبان وَكُثبان

O abode of woes, calamities have befallen it

Replace it with aloes trees and sand dunes

وَطالَما كنت مصطافى وَمرتبعى

وَحيث مألف اخواني وَخلاني

I have long been a frequenter and a sitter

Where my brethren and companions were

فَكَم احن حنين الثاكلات عَلى

نجد وَتنجي بالدمع أَكفاني

So how much does the bereaved woman yearn for

Najd and moisten my shroud with her tears

لا وَالَّذي نصب الاجبال راسية

فرد البقاء وكل غيره فاني

No - by Him who established mountains firmly

And made permanence endure and all else ephemeral

ما طالَ لَيلى وَلَيلى في الغوير وَلا

أَو هي فؤادي هوى نعم وَنعمان

Neither has Layla remained nor has Layla in Al Ghuwair or

Rather she is my heart's love yes and bountiful

الاشغفت بخير الخلق من مضر

مولى القَريقين قحطان وَعَدنان

I fell for the best of creations from Mudar

Master of Quraish the lineage of Qahtan and Adnan

هداية اللَه في الدنيا وَخيرته

من خلفه فَهوَ هادى كل حَيران

God’s guidance in life and his chosen one

After him he guides all the lost

وَاللَه ما حملت أُنثى وَلا وَضَعَت

كَمِثلِ أَحمَد من قاص وَلا دانى

By God no female conceived or gave birth

To one like Ahmad from Qass or Dabbah

مهذب شرف اللَه الوجود به

وَخصه بدلالات وَبُرهان

He refined the honor of existence through him

And privileged him with proofs and eloquence

في أُمة كان هاديها وَليسَ لَها

الا عبادة أَصنام وَأَوثان

Among a nation whose guide he was while it had

No worship but idols and statues

سر السرارة لب اللب من مضر

مُستغرق الفضل فرد ماله ثانى

Essence of secrets, core of cores from Mudar

Overflowing in grace, none matches him

حامى الحمى سيد السادات أَشجَع مِن

في اللَه جاهد في سر واعلان

Protector of sanctities, master of masters, bravest of

Those who fought for God openly and in secret

لَم يَبقَ لِلشرك عونا يطمئن به

وَلا نَصير الَّذي بَغى وَعدوان

No aide remains for polytheism to feel secure

Or supporter who transgressed and oppressed

واصبحت ملة الاسلام ظاهرة

بالحق فالناس في أَمن وايمان

And the religion of Islam has emerged

With truth, people now feel safe and faithful

وَبدل الغي رشداً وَالضلال هدى

في الارض وَالدين فردا بعد اديان

Falsehood was replaced with righteousness, misguidance with guidance

On earth, he singularized religion after religions

آياته الغرفى التَوراة بينة

وَفي زبور وانجيل وَفُرقان

Its verses openly stated in Torah, evident

In Psalms, Bible and Furqan

كَم أخبر تنابه من قبل مبعثه

فينا بَشائر أَحبار وَرُهبان

How much did his brilliance inform us before his mission

With good tidings through monks and priests

مَتى تجلت لَنا أَنوار مولده

مِن الحِجاز إِلى بصرى وَكنعان

When did his birth lights dawn upon us

From Hejaz to Basra and Canaan

تَتابعَت منه آيات الظهور فَما

خمود نار وَماشق بايوان

Continuous were the signs of his advent, neither

Did the eternal fire extinguish, nor the palace cleave

وَمعجزات بعد الرمل لَو كتبت

لَم يحصها ماء سيحان وَجيحان

And miracles beyond the moving sands, if written

Would not be contained by waters of Sayhan and Jayhan

يا صاح ان خفت في الأَيام نائبة

من ظالم قاهِر أَو جور سلطان

Oh companion, if in days you fear injustice

From an oppressive tyrant or unjust ruler

وَلَم تَجِد في الوَرى حرا له كَرَم

يرجى نداه وَلا صفح عَن الجاني

And you cannot find in the land a free man of nobility

Whose aid is hoped for or who forgives the sinner

فلذ بمن سبح الحصباء في يده

واقصد كَريم السَجايا مطلق العانى

Then hold on to the one who glorified Hasbaya in his hand

And seek the generous, absolver of sins

محمد سيد الكونين وَالثقلي

نِ وَالفَريقين من عجم وَعربان

Muhammad, master of both worlds and humankind

And both groups of Arab and non-Arab

وَقل بفضل ضجعه فأنهما

أَلسيدان المَجيدان الرَفيعان

And say by the grace of his religion, they are

The two excellent, glorious, lofty masters

وَثق بحبل شهيد الدار تلوهما

شيخ الكَرامة عثمان بن عَفان

And trust the rope of the martyr of the abode after them

The Sheikh Al-Karama, Uthman ibn Affan

ثم أبلغ الغاية القصوى أَبوحَسَن

وابتاه أَيضا وَعماه الكَريمان

Then attain the ultimate pinnacle, Abu Al-Hasan

And excel him too, and the generous blinded him

أَئمة زين اللَه الوجود بهم

غر مهذبة أَبناء غران

Imams, God beautified existence through them

Precious sons of precious mothers

لا غرو ان جَعَلوني من تفضلهم

سلمان بينهم من بعد سلمان

No wonder they made me through their grace

Salman between them after Salman

أَو شرفوا قدر مَدحي وَهو شيمتهم

أَو بشروني بالحسنى كحسان

Or honored my poetry’s worth which is their trait

Or gave me good tidings like Hassaan

الحَمد لِلَّه هم ركنى وهم عضدى

وَهم نجاتي وَهم روحى وَريحاني

Praise be to God, they are my pillar and my support

And my salvation, and my spirit and basil

يا سَيدي يا رَسول اللَه يا أَمَلي

يا موئلي يا مَلاذي يوم يَلقاني

My master, O Messenger of God, O my hope

My refuge, my shelter the day I meet my ruin

هبنى بجاهك ما قدمت من زال

جودا وَرجح بفضل منك ميزاني

Grant me by your status what I have forwarded of mistakes

Generously, and by your grace make my scale weigh heavy

واسمع دُعائي واكشف ما يساورني

من الخطوب وَنفس كل أَحزاني

And hear my prayers and relieve me

Of afflictions and the anguish of all my sorrows

فأَنتَ أَقرَب من تَرجى عواطفه

عِندي وان بعدت داري وَأَوطاني

For you are nearer than any whose affections

I hope for, though my homes and lands are far

وَفيك يا ابن خَليل اللَه يوم غَدا

أَلوذ من سوء زلاتي وَعصياني

And in you O son of Khalil Allah tomorrow

I take refuge from the evil of my mistakes and disobedience

نَوالك الجم يَطويني وَينشرنى

بالمكرمات وَعين اللطف ترعاني

Your plentiful gifts fold and unfold me

With favors and the spring of kindness irrigates me