هل نازح الدار بعد البين مقترب

أم هل يؤوب إلى الأوطان مغترب

Is the one who left home after separation drawing near,

Or is the expatriate returning to his homeland?

أم هل ترى صفحات البيد تسفر لي

عن عارض خضل خدلها ترب

Or do you see the pages of ruin reveal to me

A transient beauty whose cheeks time has plundered?

وارتوى أن جرى ذكر العذيب وفي

حشاي من فرط شوقي النار تلتهب

And it was related that the tortured one was mentioned, so

In my breast from intense longing the fire flares up.

فهل ترى اسمع الحادين عن كثب

وهم يقولون لي قف هذه الكثب

So do you see if I listen closely

As they say to me, “Stop, this is the mountain path!”

وهل تماط وقد جئت الثنية ما

بيني وبين المصلى والنقا الحجب

And do you yield when I came to the pass

Between me and the mosque and the barriers veil it?

فأنظر الحرم السامي بساكنه

وأمر الأرض دمعاً دونه السحب

So I look upon the sublime sanctuary and its dweller,

And the land weeps, below it the clouds.

والثم الترب إجلالاُ لديه وهل

لثم التراب يؤدي بعض ما يجب

And I kiss the dust in reverence before it. And does

Kissing the earth fulfill even some of what is owed?

ولو أطلقن على وجهي سعيت به

لو كان لم بنه عنه الشرع والأدب

And if they freed my face I would race to it

If propriety and virtue had not banned him from it.

هناك تطفأ أشجاني وتبرد أجفاني

وتذهب عني هذه الكرب

There my passions are extinguished and my eyelids cooled,

And this anguish departs me.

ولا أبالي بفقد أن الحياة وقد

وجدت ما كنت أرجوه وارتقب

And I care not about losing a life after

I found what I had hoped for and awaited.

هذاإذا كنت أقوى أن أقوم به

فرداً ولم ينثني عن موقفي الرغب

This, if I was strong enough to do it

Alone, and desire did not dissuade me from my stance,

ولو يقوم به طود ويعلم ما

منه علمت لامسى وهو مضطرب

And if a mighty one undertook it, one who knows

What I know, he would tarry there perturbed,

لكنه موقف الرضوان لا وصب

ينال وافده يوماً ولا نصب

But the station of acceptance cannot be attained

By a newcomer, neither easily nor with hardship.

وسار منه الهدى لم تبق شارقة

إلا ونور سناها منه مكتسب

And he from whom guidance flowed, no horizon remains

Except that its light from him was obtained.

محمد سيد السادات أكرم من

علت بملته فوق الورى الرتب

Muhammad, master of masters, more virtuous than any

Whose faith was raised above the cosmos in rank,

محمد المصطفى الهادي الذي شهدت

ببعثه أنبياء الله والكتب

Muhammad the chosen one, the guide whom

The prophets of God and the scriptures bore witness to,

ومن به طهر البيت الحرام وقد

علت على الكعبة الأوثان والنصب

He by whom the Sacred House was purified after

Idols and statues had adorned the Kaaba,

وانشق إيوان كسرى يوم مولده

من فوقه وخبا من ناره اللهب

And the palace of Chosroes split open from above

On the day of his birth, its flames extinguished,

والجن صدت عن السمع الذي صعدت

من أجله وتهاوت نحوها الشهب

And jinn blocked from hearing, for whose ascent

They had climbed, and meteors plunged towards it.