لِقَلبي ما تَهمي العُيونَ وَتَأرَقُ

وَلِلعَينِ ما يُبلى الفُؤادُ وَيُرهِقُ

My heart cares not for glances though they torment and consume,

While to the eye what wearies the heart and makes it faint.

وَما كُنتُ مِمَّن يُرهِقُ العِشقَ قَلبَهُ

وَلَكِن مَن يَدري فُنونُكَ يَعشَقُ

I was not one whose love exhausted his heart,

But who knows the ways your charm makes one fall in love.

وَما كُنتُ مِمَّن يَرشُقُ السَهمَ لَحظَهُ

فَيَهوى لِذا لَكِن يَراعُكَ أَشيَقُ

I was not one whose gaze was pierced by the arrow of your glance,

To swoon for that, but to watch you is more wondrous.

أُصِبتُ بِهِ كُلَّ القُلوبِ وَأَنَّهُ

لِيَنضَحَها بِالنَبلِ قَبلَ يَفوقُ

It struck all hearts yet it

Sprinkled them with nobility before it left.

تَرَكتُ الوَرى أَسرى هَواكَ وَإِنَّما

أَسيرُكَ في مَيدانِ فَضلِكَ مُطلَقُ

I left people captives of your love, but I

Am your captive in the field of your excellence, free.

لَدَيكَ اِستَرَقتَهُم مِنَ الطَبعِ رِقَّةً

فَأَنتَ لَهُم حَقٌّ رَقيقٌ وَمُعتَقُ

With you, you stole gentleness from nature,

So you have the right to be tender and to emancipate.

جَذَبتُ بِهاتيكَ المَعاني قُلوبَهُم

وَتيمَها وَاللَهُ ذاكَ التَأَنُّقُ

I attracted their hearts with these meanings,

And my addiction, by God, is that elegance.

كَلامٌ إِذا أَلقَيتَهُ في جَماعَةٍ

غَدا مِنكَ مِثلَ اللُؤلُؤُ الرَطبُ يَنسُقُ

Speech, when you utter it among a gathering,

Becomes from you like moist pearls, well-arranged.

عَلَيهِ مِنَ النورِ الإِلَهي مَسحَةً

تَكادُ عَلى أَرجائِهِ تَتَأَلَّقُ

Upon it is the divine light's touch

That almost glitters at its edges.

مَناهِلَ الطافِ وَأَعيُنَ حِكمَةٍ

تَظَلُّ عَلى رَوضِ المَعارِفِ تَغدَقُ

The fountains of wit and the springs of wisdom

Shade the garden of knowledge pouring.

يَبيتُ بِها غُصنُ البَلاغَةِ ناضِراً

وَريقاً عَلى نَبتِ الفَصاحَةِ يَسمَقُ

The branch of eloquence spends the night thriving

And ascending the growth of rhetoric, climbing.

سَلامٌ عَلى وَجهِ الإِمامِ مُحَمَّدٌ

مُحَيّا بِهِ ماءَ الحَياةِ يَتَرَقرَقُ

Greetings to the face of the Imam Muhammad,

Revived by it the water of life murmuring.

وَلِلَهِ دُرُّ البَحرِ دَرُّ مُحَمَّدٍ

تَتَوَّجَ مِنهُ لِلمَعارِفِ مَفرَقُ

And to God belong the pearls of the sea, the pearls of Muhammad,

From it, branches of knowledge spread out.

وَأَخلاقِهِ الغَرا إِذا شِئتَ وَصفَها

وَإِن لَم أَشَأ توحي إِلى وَأَنطِقُ

And his sublime morals, if I wished to describe them

And if I did not, they would inspire and make me speak.

إِمامٌ بِخَصلِ العَقلِ وَالنَقلِ فائِزٌ

سَبوقَ لِغاياتِ حَكيمٍ مُحَقَّقُ

An Imam winning in the qualities of intellect and scripture,

Preceding the goals of a fulfilled wise man.

إِذا ما اِنبَرى في حَلبَةِ الفَضلِ قَصُرَت

حَوالي مَداهُ حِليَةَ هُن سَبقُ

If he rose in the arena of virtue, its environs would shorten

Before the extent of his splendor racing ahead.

خَطيبُ الوَرى بِالحَقِّ لِلحَقِّ مُظهِرٌ

ظَهيرٌ وَلِلبَطَلانِ مُردٍ وَمَزهَقُ

The preacher of the world with truth for truth manifesting,

A supporter and for falsehood, declining and perishing, an adversary.

إِذا قامَ مِن فَوقِ المَنابِرِ فاصِلاً

فَأَيُّ ضَلالٍ لَيسَ يَمحي وَيَمحَقُ

When he stood above the pulpits, judging,

What misguidance then does not erase and obliterate?

تَميدُالوَرى عِندَ اِستِماعِ خَطابِهِ

وَتَعجَبُ لِلأَعوادِ إِذ لَيسَ تورِقُ

The world sways upon hearing his sermon

And is amazed that the wooden poles do not sprout leaves.

فَما قامَ بِالحَقِّ الحَنيفي صادِعاً

وَلِلفِكرِ شَملٌ باتَ لَيسَ يُمَزِّقُ

When he stood for the pure Hanafi rite arguing,

And for thought a refuge not torn apart.

لَهُ القَلَمُ المَشهورُ يَزري مِدادَهُ

بِتِبرٍ إِذا في مَهرِقٍ هُوَ مُهرِقُ

He has the famed pen that sheds its ink

With blades, when unsheathed, unsheathing.

عَجائِبَ مَولى في مُحَمَّد عَبدُهُ

وَرَبُّكَ يُعطي ما يَشاءُ وَيَرزُقُ

The wonders of my Master are in Muhammad His servant,

And your Lord gives what He wills and sustains.

لَكَ اللَهُ يا مَولايَ هَل مِن فَضيلَةٍ

بِهَذا الوَرى إِلّا بِها أَنتَ أَليَقُ

Is there, my Master, any virtue in this world

Except that you are most befitting of it?

وَفي أَمَلٍ أَنّى لَدى فِعلِ واجِبٍ

أَسكُنُ قَلباً دونَهُ باتَ يَخفِقُ

And in hope that, in fulfilling an obligation,

My heart alongside it ceases to pulsate.

إِذا نالَ مِثلي مِن كَلامِكَ لَفظَةً

تُشرِفُهُ فَهوَ السَعيدُ المُوَفِّقُ

If one like me obtained a word from your speech

Honoring him, then he is fortunate, successful.