أَسيرُ تيهيكَ صبٌّ دَمعُه جاري

هَل ملتَ للهجر لَما نمَّ بي جاري

I wander lost in your abandonment, my tears flowing

Will your estrangement ever cease, now that my tears stream?

ناشدتك الودّ لا تركن إِلَيه فَما

وَجدي سِوى وجد مَشغوفٍ بِأَقمار

I implored your affection—do not leave me to it

I found only a heart enamored with moons

أَطلقت قَلبي بِميدان الهَوى فَجري

كرهاً وَما دبّ بي إلا على النار

I set my heart free in the field of passion—so it ran

Against its will, stoking nothing but fire within me

لا كان نَأي لميل أَو لفرط قلىً

نَعوذ بالودّ مِن ميل لأغيار

Neither distance nor passion's excess was my misstep

By friendship we take refuge from leaning toward others

حَسبي لَدى ناعس الأَجفان ما فَعلت

زوراً لواحظُه في قَلب صبار

It suffices me that my deeds are known to the sleepless eyed one

He watches for my devotion in a patient heart

لولا معاهدتي للدمع ما علمت

مني الوشاة عَلى سُقمي بِأَسراري

If not for my pact with tears, the gossips would not know

Of my sickness—my secrets remain hidden

يا لَيتَني مِلتُ مُذ زاغَت عَقيدتُه

عَنهُ وَفهمي اِنتَهى عَن دين أَوزار

If only I had refused since his faith strayed

From me and my reason ceased to shoulder burdens

ما حيلَتي بيته قَلبي وَلا أَحد

رَثى لِوَجدي وَما يَجري بِأَفكاري

Neither did my trick make him love me nor did anyone

Eulogize my torment and the course of my thoughts

ما بالُها دَمعتي تَجري وَها جلدي

وَهَى وَقَد تاه في الأَدواء زوّاري

Why do my tears flow while my patience remains?

My visitors wander lost, sickened

حلفت ما رق قَبل الآن لي كَبدٌ

في الحُب للوالِهِ الآتي بِأَعذار

I swore none grieved like me before in love

For an absent beloved who comes with excuses

ما نالَني من مَلامي غَير مُشكلة

وَقعت مِن أَمرِها في لَيل أَوعار

I gained no blame but the problem which befell

Me in a shameful night from his affairs

دَعني فَما نشوَتي إِلّا بِهِ أَبَداً

كَم دَلّ مِن وَلَهِ الأَحشا بِمُختار

Leave me be—my delight is through him for all time

How many signs of sincere madness lead to the chosen

إِن كانَ دائي يَشفى بِالوِصال فَصِل

عَسى بِهِ رَمَقي يَبقى وَتِذكاري

If my illness is cured by union, then join

That my spirit might remain and my memory

ما أَبتَغي ردَّ نَفسي عَن غِوايتها

بِأَهيفٍ قُربُه نُورٌ لأبصاري

I do not seek to divert my passion—his nearness

Is light that illuminates my sight

نعم لَقَد قامَ لي في الحُب ذو عَذل

تَبيت مِن غَدره رُوحي بِأخطار

Yes, one blameworthy in love has risen against me

My soul imperiled by his betrayal

ما أَشتكي دهم أَيامي لِغَير فَتىً

وَلَّيتُهُ صدقَ أَحوالي وَأَطواري

I complain of none but a youth for my woes

I wish he were true in state and deed

عَبد إِلى بارئ الناس الحَليم وَمن

أَغنى وَأَقنى بِتَقدير وَأَقدار

A servant to the Clement Creator of men, and one

Enriched and content in decree and ordainment

شِراع مَجد فَريد في عَشيرته

فَتىً لَهُ هِمَمٌ شاعَت بِأمصار

The sail of unique glory among his clan

A man whose resolve spread through lands

رَقيت يا أَكرَم الأَبناء شَأوَ أَبٍ

دَعا العِدا أَمنه للروع وَالعار

You have ascended, O best of sons, the renown of a father

Who calls the foe to fear and shame

شَربت مِن يَمّ عرفانٍ أَزلتَ بِهِ

هُموم أَهوال جهّال وَأَشرار

You have drunk from the bounty of recognition, cleansing with it

The concerns of ignorant and evil folk's terrors

رجمت بِالزجر حزب الجَهل فَاِنصَدعوا

وَأَصبَح الظُلم في ذل وَأَكدار

You have rebuffed with warning the party of ignorance—they scattered

And injustice became lowly and gloomy

فَما وَهَت همة الإِنصاف في زَمَن

حَبوتَنا لحظةً فيهِ بِأَنظار

The resolve of equity did not falter in an era

Whose moments you graced with your sight

تَاللَه ما وَاحد الدُنيا سِوى رَجُلٍ

صَبت إِلى أنسه أَلبابُ أَخيار

By God, none in existence compares to a man

Whose being the elite of the noble desire

بَنيت للبر في شَبراكَ بَيتَ قِرىً

نَوال أَقلامه يَجري كَأَنهار

You built in your land for benevolence a home

Whose pens flow like rivers

هُنِّئتَ يا ناشر الإِحسان في بَلَد

ما أَنتَ فيهِ سِوى خَير لإِبرار

Congratulations spread, O you who spread good

In a land where you are the best of the righteous

مَنحتنا وَابِلاً مِن راحة خُلقَت

صَديقةً أَينما حلَّت لمدرار

You have granted us abundant tranquility created

As a sincere friend wherever settled, for the bitter

مَهَّدت بِالرشد أَركان العلوم لَنا

رَغبت في عتق مَملوك وَأَحرار

You have paved the way in your enclosure for sciences

Seeking to free slaves and freemen alike

صرفت بِالعدل عَنا جَور من غدروا

وَسالموا مَعشَراً جادوا بِدينار

You have turned injustice from us with justice from betrayers

And so they submitted, a group who bargained in dinars

رَمَيتهم لَيسَ مِن شَكٍّ بداهية

عَموا بِها تُرِكوا في سجن جبار

You have cast them with no doubt in plain sight

They are left blind in a tyrant's prison

وَمات مِن وَهمِهِ في الحال أَكثرُهم

زَوالُهم وَفناهم عجَّل الباري

Most of them died of delusion in the moment

Their loss and demise made swift by the Maker

زعيمهم ما دَرى أَن الظلوم لَهُ

همّ محيط بِهِ يَأتي بِمقدار

Their leader did not know the unjust have

Endless worries that will come to pass

أَما تَرى هامةَ المَعروف قَد رفعت

إِلى السُهى أَمس إقبال وَإدبار

Do you not see the resolve of benefaction raised

Yesterday to glory, in ascendance and decline?

دامَت لَنا وَعلت أَسوار مَعرفة

وَرقاؤها باكرتنا فَوق أَشجار

The edifices of knowledge for us have lasted and towered—

Its expanse greeted us above trees

عَزيزة سجعت تومي لأوحدنا

حليمٍ السَيف مَولانا بِأَزهار

Dear friend, your chant made us one

A clement man whose sword adorns with flowers

لَهُ أَمانيه لا تنفك طائعة

مَدى المَدى ما تَوالى نَشر أَخبار

His hopes undividedly obedient

However far the horizon that news traverses

إِني وَإِن أَلفت نَفسي القَريض فَما

أَبغي مِن الأجر إلا قربَ أَشعاري

If I was inclined to verse, my aim

Is not reward but nearness to my poems

ها بكري أَمهِرْ بِأَنواع القبول عَسى

هِلال جاه الثَنا يَسمو بِأَنوار

The crescent moon of glory sublime with light

Rejoice! Egypt has sung you chronicled

أَبشر فَقَد أَنشدت مَصرٌ مؤرخةً

الحلم في أَهل بَيت الأَمر أَنصاري

As forbearance among the people, my partisans