بَكى الغَريب لفقد الدار وَالجار

ان الغَريب غَزير دمعه الجاري

The stranger wept for the loss of home and neighbor

The tears of the weeping stranger flowed

أَهاجه الركب اذ قالوا الرَحيل غدا

أَم شاقه لمع ذاك البارق الساري

The caravan stirred him when they said, “We leave tomorrow”

Or did the glare of that swift lightning disturb him?

أَم باتَ يرقب نارا بالحمى وَقدت

يا موقد النار لا عذبت بالنار

Or did he spend the night watching a fire kindled with fever?

O kindler of the fire, do not torment with fire

هب النَسيم بأَرواح يمانية

تهدي إِلى الشأم ذاكَ المندل الداري

Send the breeze with spirits from Yemen

Taking to Damascus that wavering robe

فبت وَالقلب مَجروح جوارحه

حيران أَضرب أَخماسا بأَعشار

So I spent the night while his wounded heart’s feelings

Were perplexed. Should I compose quatrains or quintets?

نام الخليون من حولي وَما عَلِموا

أَتى سَمير صبابات وَتذكار

The boon companions slept around me without knowing

That Sameer came, bringing wine and a reminder

ذكرت جيرة نجد يوم دارهم

دارى وَسما رذاكَ الحَي سمارى

They recalled the neighborhood of Najd, the day they

Were my home, and the sky my neighbor

وَذبت وجدا لأرض لي بها وطر

هَيهات كَم بَينَ أَوطاني وأَوطاري

I melted with yearning for a land that was mine

Alas! How far between my homelands and encampments

يا ممرضي بربا نجد أَعد مَرضى

عَسى يَعودون عوادى وزوّاري

O you who nurse the illness of Najd’s expanse, prepare the patients

Maybe they will return to me, visiting and caring

فقد وهبت لغزلان العذيب دمي

وَلَم أطالب عيون العين بالثار

For I shed my blood for the does of Al Uthayb

And did not ask the eyes for vengeance

لَولا فراق الفَريق النازلين عَلى

حكم الهَوى ما وشى دَمعي باسراري

Were it not for the separation of the band who descended

By the rule of passion, my tears would not reveal my secrets

فَكَم تقسم قَلبي نية عرضت

مَقسومة بين انجاد واغوار

So how does the intention that appeared divide my heart

Split between Unayzah and the empty quarter?

يا معمل العيس من شام الى يمن

معوّدا حمل أَهوال وأحطار

O bearer of terrors and perils from Syria to Yemen

Accustomed to bearing dangers and sorrows

سلم عَلى الحَي من نيابَتي برع

وَقل لهم حين تنبيهم باخباري

Greet the neighborhood on my behalf courteously

And tell them when you wake them with my news

رأَيته حول بيت اللَه في زمر

من طائفين وَحجاج وَعمار

I saw him circling God’s house among processions

Of pilgrims, visitors, and caretakers

وَقَد قَضى عمل النسكين محتسبا

وَنال ما نال من غفران غفار

And he finished the ritual acts of pilgrimage virtuously

Attaining what he attained of the forgiveness of the Forgiver

لكنه ضاقَ ذرعا أَن يحج وَلَم

يزر شَفيع البَرايا صفوة الباري

But he was sorely grieved that he performed Hajj without

Visiting the intercessor of mankind, the elite of the Creator

محمدا دعوة الحق الرَسول إِلى

عرب وَعجم وَبدو ثم حضار

Muhammad, the truthful invitation to Arabs, non-Arabs and Bedouins, then civilized people

The secret of secrets, the essence of essences, the best youth

سر السرارة لب اللب خير فَتى

من فتية سادة السادات اخيار

Among the youth of the masters of masters, the virtuous

The repository of beauty and benevolence, the generous one

مستودع الحسن والاحسان ذو كرم

بالخير اجود من روح الصبا الذارى

More generous with good than the blowing fragrant breeze

Immersed in his name are all the praises

مستغرق باسمه كل المحامد من

علم وَحلم وافضال وايثار

Of knowledge, patience, grace, and altruism

Your greeting to blessed Taif which inclines

حياك يا طيبة الغراء صوب حيا

يهمى بمنسجم في الحي مطار

Toward the neighborhood melodiously with gliding flight

Where the prophecy has pitched its pavilion

حيث النبوة مضروب سرادقها

عَلى رياض جنان ذات أَنهار

Upon gardens with rivers flowing through

God is Greater! Independent in His majesty, He who

اللَه أَكبَر ذافرد الجَلالَة ذا ال

كاسي من الكيس وَالعاري من العاري

Clothes the naked and exposes the vain of their vanity

Possessor of cosmic delight, holder of guidance’s secret, He of

ذابهجة الكون ذا سر الهداية ذا

روح الوجود المصفى خير مختار

The purified spirit of existence, the Best of the chosen

Jesus’ Bible, with the Torah brought us good tidings

انجيل عيسى مَع التَوراة بشرنا

ببثه مسندا عن كعب أَحبار

Of his mission, supported by the words of the rabbis

And how many authentic prophetic miracles and traces belong to him

وَكَم له في عَلامات النبوّة من

مصنفات صَحيحات وآثار

Like healing the sick, increasing water and making the wild animals and birds sociable

And the staff speaking, and weaving the spider’s web, as

كبرء مرضى وَفيض الماء مزيده

وأنس نافر غزلان وأطيار

The second of two doves laid eggs in the cave

And the limb which spoke to him, and the boulder which softened for him

وَنطق ضب وَنسج العَنكَبوت كَما

باض الحمام الثَاني اثنين في الغار

And the clouds which shaded him, and for him the moon split

And milk which copiously poured from his breast

وَالعضو كلمه وَالجذع حن وَفي

مَعناه تَسليم أَحجار وَأَشجار

And how many noble honors of God’s messengers that

Mankind has not reached a tenth of a tenth in knowing

وَالغيم ظلله وَالبدر شق له

وَالثدى فاضَ بدر منه مدرارا

O Savior of the creations from Hellfire when they were

Upon the precipice of a crumbling cliff

وَكَم لا شرف رسل اللَه من شَرف

لَم تبلغ الخلق منه عشر معشار

My ordainment, my hope in tribulations, my

Comfort, my treasure, my ease after hardship

يا منقذ الخلق من نار الجَحيم وَهم

عَلى شفا جرف هار بمهنار

Hear these strange, sincere praises with which I do not intend

Attaining houses, gold dinars or wealth untold

يا عدتي يا رَجائي في النَوائب يا

عزى وَكنزى وَيسرى بعد اعساري

Rather, I hope from You in both abodes for compassion

And in my stay between abode and abode

اسمع غَرائِب مدح لا أريد بها

تحصيل دار وَدينار وَقنطار

I haven’t praised You while admitting to shortcoming

Except to alleviate my bonds and burdens

بَل أَرتَجي منك في الدارين مرحمة

وَفي الاقامة بين الدار وَالدار

And where can my praise of You reach after the praises

Of the highest heavens? What of my rhymes and poems?

فَما مدحتك بالتَقصير معترفا

الا لتخفيف آصاري وأَوزاري

Upon You the most immaculate prayers of God are everlasting

Remaining for the duration of evenings and dawns

وأين ينزل مدحي فيك بعد ثنا

سبع المثاني وَما سجعي واشعاري

The purest fragrances rain upon You and

The emigrants, Family and Helpers and Ansar

عليك أَزكى صَلاة اللَه دائمة

تَبقى بقاء عشيات وابكار

تندى عليك عَبير اطيبا وَعَلى

مهاجرين وآل ثم أنصار