سيدي والظنون فيك جميلة

وأياديك بالأماني كفيله

My master, I have good thoughts about you

And your hands guarantee my hopes

لا تحل عن جميل رأيك إني

ما لي اليوم غير رأيك حيله

Do not refrain from your good opinion, for I

Have no stratagem today other than your opinion

واصطنعني كما اصطنعت بإسدا

ء يد من شفاعة أو وسيله

And make me as you made Asda

With a touch of mediation or facilitation

لا تضعني فلست منك مضيعاً

ذمة الحب والأيادي الجميله

Do not make me lost, for I am not lost from you

The covenant of love and the good hands

وأجرني فالخطب عض بناب

بيه وأجرى إلى حماي خيوله

And save me, for calamities have bitten

With their fangs and flowed to their horses

ولو أني دعا بنصري داع

كنت لي خير معشر وفصيله

And if a supplicant had called for my help

I would have been the best group and division for him

أنه أمري إلى الذي جعل الل

ه أمور الدنيا له مكفوله

Indeed my matter is to Him who made

Affairs of the world guaranteed for Him

وأراه في ملكه الآية الك

برى فولاه ثم كان مديله

And I see in His great kingdom the greatest sign

He entrusted him then he leaned on him

أشهدته عناية الله في التم

حيص أن كان عونه ومنيله

I witnessed God's care for him in refinement

If his help and incline were for him

العزيز السلطان والملك الظا

هر فخر الدنيا وعز القبيله

The mighty sultan and the apparent king, pride of the world and honor of the tribe

And protector of Islam from every adversity

ومجير الإسلام من كل خطب

كاد زلزال بأسه أن يزيله

Almost the tremor of his might eliminated it

And repeller of the enemy with thesharp blade that sheds his blood and determination

ومديل العدو بالطعنة النجلا

ء تفري ماذيه ونصوله

And grateful for God's blessings, he spends

His mornings and evenings in pleasing Him

وشكور لأنعم الله يفني

في رضاه غدوه وأصيله

And is gentle in describing my state and complaint

My intimacy, O sincere and beloved one

وتلطف في وصف حالي وشكوى

خلتي يا صفيه وخليله

Say to him, and speech honors one like you

In the assembly of supremacy, to say

قل له والمقال يكرم من مث

لك في محفل العلا أن يقوله

O lord of kings, O just one of time

If time is equitable in its seasons

يا خوند الملوك يا معدل الد

هر إذا عدل الزمان فصوله

Do not neglect to mend my fracture, for I have not

Ceased to hope in you, for the long hands

لا تقصر في جبر كسرى فما زل

ت أرجيك للأيادي الطويلة

I am a neighbor whom you have protected

And you have paved the path to supremacy

أنا جار لكم منعتم حماه

ونهجتم إلى المعالي سبيله

And a stranger whom you have accustomed to wilderness

And sorrow with consent and ease

وغريب أنستموه على الوحش

ة والحزن بالرضى والسهوله

And united his estrangement, so God decreed separation

And what He decreed is not hoped for

وجمعتم من شمله فقضى الل

ه فراقاً وما قضى مأموله

Time has been expensive with children and family

And its thoughts were not that it would be aggressive

غاله الدهر في البنين وفي الأه

ل وما كان ظنه أن يغوله

And fate has shackled him, with branches

And roots that have covered him, encroached upon him

ورمته النوى فقيداً قد اجت

احت عليه فروعه وأصوله

So you pulled him by his forelock, and obtained

All that supremacy wanted to obtain

فجذبتم بضبعه وأنلتم

كل ما شاءت العلا أن تنيله

And raised his worth before he complained

To you, of his blindness and withdrawal

ورفعتم من قدر قبل أن يش

كو إليكم عياءه وخموله

And made obligatory his right, never!

God forbid you see the impossible

وفرضتم له حقيقة ود

حاش لله أن ترى مستحيله

An ambition none but you have known

And I who have experienced my time and generation

همة ما عرفتها لسواكم

وأنا من خبرت دهري وجيله

The enemies fabricated lies

With flawed methodologies

والعدا نمقوا أحاديث إفك

كلها في طرائق معلوله

Circulated strange slander about me

Which they set up for their own ropes

روجوا في شأني غرائب زور

نصبوها لأمرهم أحبوله

And blamed what they wanted of false accusations

Thinking it would be accepted

ورموا بالذي أرادوا من الب

هتان ظناً بأنها مقبولة

They claimed I came up with words

That I would not think to say

زعموا أنني أتيت من الأقوا

ل ما لا يظن بي أن أقوله

How can I betray rights when I

Thank you for your abundant favors?

كيف لي أغمط الحقوق وأني

شكر نعماكم علي الجزيله

How can I deny the hands known

By the sun and the shaded shadows?

كيف لي أنكر الأيادي التي تع

رفها الشمس والظلال الظليله

If so, I have been absolved by God the Exalted

And openly betrayed His Messenger

إن يكن ذا فقد برئت من الل

ه تعالى وخنت جهراً رسوله

They have collared us with the order of the book, so it was

Easy for the kindling of suspicions about us

طوقونا أمر الكتاب فكانت

لقداح الظنون فينا مجيله

No, by the Lord of the Book Allah revealed

Upon a heart that comprehended its revelation

لا ورب الكتاب أنزله الل

ه على قلب من وعى تنزيله

We did not accept that in deed, nor did we

Come to it willingly, nor followed its evidence

ما رضينا بذاك فعلاً ولا جئ

ناه طوعاً ولا اقتفينا دليله

Rather, we complied with the Book wrongfully

With no hope of defending it with cunning

إنما سامنا الكتاب ظلوم

لا يرجى دفاعه بالحيله

Wrath of an intimate enemy and slow patience

And arms polished to stab us

سخط ناجز وحلم بطيء

وسلاح للوخز فينا صقيله

Leave me be, I am not of the position of rule

Nor trailing behind them tails

ودعوني ولست من منصب الح

كم ولا ساحباً لديهم ذيوله

Except I am maligned with my mention

And the strings of my guts and内are examined

غير أني وشى بذكري واش

يتقصى أوتاره وذحوله

So we wrote relying on your forbearance

To erase the heavy hurts from us

فكتبنا معولين على حل

مك تمحو الاصار عنا الثقيله

We did not point with it to Zayd or Amr

Nor did they specify details for us

ما أشرنا به لزيد ولا عم

رو ولا عينوا لنا تفصيله

Rather, they mention ambiguously whom and in whom

Its rulings are transmitted

إنما يذكرون عمن وفيمن

مبهمات أحكامها منقوله

And they think it is as they harbored

Of ugliness or villainy

ويظنون أن ذاك على ما

أضمروا من شناعة أو رذيله

While it is an opinion far from right

And darkness they did not properly interpret

وهو ظن عن الصواب بعيد

وظلام لم يحسنوا تأويله

And the sultan, may God protect him from disgrace with guidance and virtue

And the greatest king in status, overlooking

وجناب السلطان نزهه الله ع

ن العاب بالهدى والفضيله

Hoping his sins of time would be lightened

So accept the excuse, we today hope

وأجل الملوك قدراً صفوح

يرتجي ذنب دهره ليقيله

With the sultan's life, your acceptance from you

And aid a stranger complaining of

فاقبلوا العذر إننا اليوم نرجو

بحياة السلطان منكم قبوله

The barrenness of his living and transfer

Your neighbor, your guest, your lodger

وأعينوا على الزمان غريباً

يشتكي جدب عيشه ومحوله

The generous never loses his lodger

Renew for him your pleasure rites

جاركم ضيفكم نزيل حماكم

لا يضيع الكريم يوماً نزيله

For the rites of generosity do not change

Shelter him in mercy, for the knots of his patience

جددوا عنده رسوم رضاكم

فرسوم الكرام غير محيله

Have come undone

And release him by force, for he hopes for naught

داركوه برحمة فلقد أم

ست عقود اصطباره محلوله

Save your benevolence for this frail one

O splendid in effects in the times, O Tuntunji, O meadow of supremacy and refuge

وانحلوه جبراً فليس يرجي

غير إحسانكم لهذي النحيله

How does he transfer from me to the khanqah

No sin or misstep transferred

يا حميد الآثار في الدهر يا

ألطنبغا يا روض العلا ومقيله

Rather, I assumed it vacant with an honorable decree and robe sent

And I had hoped for it apart from it

كيف بالخانقاه ينقل عني

لا لذنب أو جنحة منقوله

And apart from it, his promise to attain it

And I became confident in it

بل تقلدتها شغوراً بمرسو

م شريف وخلعة مسدوله

With ties it did not undo

Convey my story, for one like you intends

ولقد كنت آملاً لسواها

وسواها بوعده أن ينيله

Good action for whom he inclines

And take advantage of my reward and supplication

وتوثقت للزمان عليها

بعقود ما خلتها محلوله

An accepted nearness with your Lord

And accompany good fortune, attaining hopes

أبلغن قصتي فمثلك من يق

صد فعل الحسنى بمن ينتمي له

And leave the defeated enemy band

And act during the happy reign of the apparent king

واغنموا من مثوبتي ودعائي

قربة عند ربكم مقبوله

To erase harm and eliminate it

And return the world to its best bond

واصحب العز ظافراً بالأماني

واترك العصبة العدا مفلوله

When you sacrifice your happiness, included

And seek victory from his happiness, it accompanies you

واعتمل في سعادة الملك الظا

هر أن تمحو الأذى وتزيله

To repel and impede

And anticipate what befalls the enemies

وتعيد الدنيا لأحسن شمل

حين تضحي بسعده مشموله

In Jumada or a little after it

And take him seriously with good acceptance

واطلب النصر من سعادته يص

حبك داباً في الظعن والحيلوله

God speaks the truth in His ordained time

For the Prophet used to give good omens

وارتقب ما يحله بالأعادي

في جمادى أو زد عليه قليله

Always pleased with good

وخذوه فألاً بحسن قبول

صدق الله في الزمان مقوله

فلقد كان يحسن الفال عند ال

مصطفى دائماً ويرضى جميله