أوجز مديحك فالمقام عظيم

من دونه المنثور والمنظوم

Summarize your praise, for the position is great,

Without it prose and verse are deficient,

من كانَ في سور الكتاب مديحه

ماذا تساور فكرةٌ وتروم

He whose praise is in the chapters of the Book,

What thought crosses the mind and what does it scheme?

جبريل راوي نصّه الأحلى وفي

ورق الجنان كتابه مرقوم

Gabriel conveyed its most beautiful text, and on

The parchment of heavens His book is prescribed,

قل يا محمد تفصح الأكوان عن

حمدٍ كأنَّ مزاجه تسنيم

Say O Muhammad you articulate creation about

Praise as if its temperament is a gentle breeze,

بدرٌ تألَّق فالطريق محجَّة

لذوي الهداية والصراط قويم

A full moon that shone so the path is crowded

For those guided and the straight path substantive,

حرست بمولدِه السماء من الذي

أصغى زماناً فالنجوم رجوم

With his birth the heaven was protected from one who

Listened for an era, thus the stars cast,

وتشرَّفت أرضٌ بموطئِ نعلهِ

وسمت حصاها فالرجوم نجوم

And a land was honored by his sandal’s stomp,

And its pebbles were illuminated thus cast stars,

وخبت بهِ نيران فارس آية

يدري بها من قبل إبراهيم

The fires of Persia waned through him, a sign

Known before by Abraham,

لو لم يكن في صلبِهِ ما بدَّلت

نيرانه فرجعنا وهي نعيم

Had there not been in his ancestry, it would not have

Changed its fire, so we retreated and it is bliss,

وكفى لأمَّته بذاك بشارة

أن سوفَ تخمد في الجنان جحيم

And enough for his nation is that good news

That hellfire will be extinguished in heavens,

هي آية أولى ووسطى تقتضي

في الحشر أخرى والشفيع كريم

It is the first, middle, and last sign that necessitates

Another in the resurrection, and the intercessor is generous,

ونبوَّةٌ شفت القلوب وبينت

إن الكتاب كما رأيت حكيم

And a prophecy that quenched hearts and showed

That the Book, as you saw, is wise,

يا صفوة الرسل الذي لولاه لم

يثبت على حدِّ المقام كليم

O elite of messengers, without whom no

Steadfast prophet would stand on the supreme station,

كلاَّ ولا سكن الجنان أبٌ ولم

ينهض إلى الروح المسيح رميم

No and heavens would not be inhabited before a father

And the roaming Christ spirit would not be mended,

الله قد صلَّى عليك فكلّ ذي

مجدٍ لمجدِك دأبه التسليم

God sent blessings upon you, so everyone with

Glory habitually surrenders to your glory,

ودعاكَ في الذكر اليتيم وإنما

أسنى الجواهر ما يقال يتيم

And invoked you in the bereaved scripture, though

The finest jewels said orphan is what is said bereaved,

سبقت مناقبكَ السراة ومن سرى

فوقَ البراق فسبقه محتوم

Your merits preceded messengers, and he who went

Above Al-Buraq, so his precedence is predestined,

أنتَ الإمام وربّ كلّ رسالة

يوم الفخار وراءك المأموم

You are the imam, and the lord of every message

On the day of Pride while the believers pray behind you,

أنتَ الختام لهم وأنتَ فخارهم

وبمسكِه فليفخر المختوم

You are their seal, and you are their pride

And through your handle let the sealed be proud,

أنت الغياث إذا الصحائف نشرت

وبدا جنا الجنَّات والزَّقوم

You are the rescue when pages are displayed

And hell and heavens of heavens and hell appear,

يوم الفرار من الصديق فما لذي

صحب سوى العرق الصبيب حميم

The day of fleeing while even the truthful friend has

No company but the dripping sweat so warm,

والخلق شاخصة لجاهِ مشفع

فرد الجلال لشأنهِ التعظيم

And people gaze expectantly for the intercessor

So the Majesty returns his stature and magnifies it,

بمقامكَ المرفوع يخفض ذنبنا ال

منصوب إنَّ رجاءَنا المجزوم

Through your elevated station our sins decrease

Though our hopes are pegged, not deputized,

يا أيُّها البحر المطهَّر إنَّنا

طلاَّب حوضكَ يوم تسعى الهيم

O purified sea, we truly are

Seekers of your pond, the day the terrified swarm,

سادت بكَ الصلوات ما أسرى بنا

للصبحِ أشهب والظلام بهيم

The prayers rose through you whenever what captivated us

To the horizon is a fading evil and darkness beastly,