إنها أعرضَتْ عن الإعراضِ

فاقضِ يا عاذلي الذي أنتَ قاضي

She turned away from turning away

So pass judgment, O my blamer, as you are the judge

غادةٌ أمرضَتْ جُسوماً صِحاحاً

بجفونٍ ذواتِ سُقمٍ مِراضِ

Gada made healthy bodies sick

With eyelids having chronic illness

جمعَتْ في الهوى جنودَ سُهادي

مثل ما فرّقتْ جفونَ اغتماضي

She gathered in love troops of madness

As she dispersed the eyelids of my gloom

ريقُها خمرَتي وفي وجنتَيْها

روضةٌ لي فاقتْ جميع الرّياضِ

Her saliva is my wine, and in her cheeks

Is a meadow for me surpassing all gardens

ذاتُ طرْفٍ ما أبصرَ الطّرفُ أحلى

من سوادٍ قد حازَه في بياضِ

A glance whose glance saw nothing lovelier

Than blackness which whiteness has gained

فتكَتْ بي جُفونُها في هواها

مع عزّي كفتكةِ البرّاضِ

Her eyelids killed me in her love

Like the killing of leopards

كلُّ سيفٍ يكلُّ غيرَ سيوفٍ

جُرِّدَتْ لي من ألحاظِ مواضي

Every sword fails except her swords

That were bared for me from the glances of the watcher

وغزالٍ قضى عليّ غرامي

في هواهُ منه بتركِ التّقاضي

And a gazelle that finished me off in his love

By abandoning litigation

أنا راضٍ بذِلّتي وخضوعي

في هواه فهل تُرى هو راضِ

I am content with my humiliation and surrender

In his love, so does he see me content?

ذو عذارٍ يمشي على وردِ خدّيْ

هِ الهُوَيْنا كالحيّةِ النّضناضِ

With a tender mouth that walks on my cheek

Is our love like the writhing serpent?

مُستفاضٌ هواي فيه وصبري

عن هواهُ فليس بالمستفاضِ

My love in him is abundant, and my patience

For his love, but it is not abundant

صاحِ دعْ كرَه سِرْ في الفيافي

وتغرّبْ كالحرث بنِ مُضاضِ

Shout, leave the hate of secrets and

Alienate yourself like the plow of Muḍāri

سر مجدّاً الى طِلابِ المعالي

فوقَ ظهرِ السّواهمِ الأنقاضِ

Travel with glory to the seekers of greatness

Above the back of the lofty ruins

وانْحُ بابَ الإمامِ سيّدِنا الحا

فظِ تظفَرْ بسائِرِ الأغراضِ

And head to the door of our Imam and master

So you may gain all purposes

الكريمِ النِّجارِ والطاهرِ الموْ

لِدِ بين الأنام والأعراضِ

The generous carpenter and the pure birth

Among people and reputations

صيغَ من جوهرِ المكارمِ صِرْفاً

وكرامِ الورى من الأعراضِ

Formed from the essence of virtues purely

And the world’s nobilities from reputations

ذو ارتفاعٍ على السِّماكَيْنِ والنّسْ

رِ كما أنّ ضدّه ذو انخِفاضِ

With a loftiness over the two heights and stars

As its opposite has lowness

هو يعطي بُزْلاً وكلُّ كريمٍ

غيرَهُ باخِلٌ ببنْتِ مِخاضِ

He gives squandering while every generous one

Other than him is stingy with the daughter of childbirth

ما لهُ ساخطٌ عليه مدى الده

رِ كما أنّ عِرضَه عنه راضِ

No one is angry with him for an epoch

Just as being away from him makes one content

قطّ لم يُحوِجَ العُفاةَ ولا المسا

ئِلَ جدوى يمينه الفيّاضِ

He never disappointed the poor and the beggars

Due to his overflowing right hand

هو قاضٍ على لُهاهُ بجورٍ

وهو بالعدْلِ في البريّةِ قاضِ

He is unjust to his ignoramus with injustice

And with justice in the wilderness, he is the judge

ذو فخارٍ ضخمٍ وعزٍّ منيع

ونوالٍ جمٍّ وأيْدٍ عِراضِ

With enormous pride and firm honor

And abundant success and spreading hands

إيتِ يا صادياً حياضَ نداهُ

وارْو منها وخلِّ كلَّ الحياضِ

Come O yearner to his call’s basin

And drink from it and leave all the basins

لم يزَلْ مذْ عرفتُه ذا انبساطٍ

وسواه طولَ المدى ذات انقباضِ

Since I knew him he was always genial

While others are always contracted

أيها الحافظُ الإمام المفدّى

جُدْتَ فالمكرماتُ عنك رَواضِ

O guardian Imam, O redeemer

Your virtues are meadows

هاك بكراً كسوتُها ثوب فخرٍ

أيُّ ثوبٍ من سؤددٍ فضفاضِ

What garment of felicity is more loose?

She disdains the poetry of al-Mutanabbi

فغدَتْ تزدري بشعر المعرّي

وبمهيارَ والشريفِ البَياضي

And that of Muhyi al-Din al-Bayati

So stay and be safe as long as the birds sing in the thickets

فابْقَ واسلَم ما غرّد الطيرُ في الأي

كِ وهز النسيمُ زهرَ الرياضِ

And the breeze shakes the flowers of the gardens