أمعروف قد واسيت قلب المتيم

وداويت جرحا فت مهجة مريم

I knew you would comfort the heart of the lover

And heal a wound that tore open the chest of Maryam

عهدتك يا رب القريض منظما

قلائد درّ لا مجبر اعظم

I entrusted you, O Lord of eloquence, to compose

Necklaces of pearls, nothing greater

ومنزل آيات البلاغة والحجى

فها انت طب ما استعان بمرهم

And a residence of miracles of rhetoric and proof

So here you are, a remedy without need of ointment

عرفت مكان السقم من نفس أيم

فداويت منها كل جرح ببلسم

You recognized where the sickness was from her own soul

So you healed every wound in it with balm

وان كنت لم تنشر من القبر بعلها

فما انت عيسى كي تقول له قم

And if you did not raise her husband from the grave

You are not Jesus to say to him "Rise!"

ولكن أولاد الأرامل كلهم

يفدون منك اليوم أكرم ضرغم

But all the sons of widows

Are ransomed by you today, most generous of men

وما انفردوا في ذاك بل كل منتم

لعيسى غدا يفديك يا خير مسلم

And they were not alone in this, but everyone who belongs

To Jesus will ransom you tomorrow, O best of Muslims!

جهرت بقول شف عن نفس عاقل

كريم ابي لم يهب قول لوم

You pronounced words "Heal your own rational soul"

My noble father did not grant words of blame

وقمت بعذر لا يرد لدى امرئ

فقلت ضلال القوم ساق إلى الدم

And you stood with an excuse no man can refute

Saying "the people's misguidance led to blood"

فقاموا بعار النهب والفتك وافتروا

على الدين في تحليل كل محرم

So they rose in the disgrace of pillage and murder and slandered

The faith by making the unlawful lawful

ضلال يجل الدين عنه وان من

يعالن به للجهل والكفر ينتم

Misguidance from which religion is absolved, though one

Who champions it belongs to ignorance and unbelief

إلى مريم وافيت معتذرا وما

سواك اتى بالعذر غير مجمجم

You came to Maryam with an excuse, and none

Other than you came with an excuse, unprompted

غلطت فقد وافى الولي بمثل ما

اتيت وان الفضل للمتقدم

You erred, and the guardian came with the like of what

You brought, though virtue is for the first

نعم يا ولي الدين قد كنت سابقا

بعذر كما لو كنت أول مجرم

Yes, O guardian of the faith, you were first

With an excuse, as if you were the first offender

وحاشاك يا قطب المكارم والنهى

من الذنب لكن ذا كمال التكرم

Far be it from you, O pillar of nobility and restraint

From sin! But such is the perfection of nobility

فانكما يا نابغي أمة لها

قديم شفيع في ضلال ميمم

For both of you, O eminent one of a nation which has

An ancient intercessor in grave misguidance

إذا ما الوف اجرمت بجهالة

ففي كل لفظ منكما دية الدم

If the intimate sins in ignorance

In every word from you is the blood money for blood