لم يُلْفَ للهون عاشقٌ جاحِدْ

فخلِّ قولَ العذولِ والحاسِدْ

No lover is blamed for falling madly in love

So ignore the words of the blamer and envious

وذِلَّ واخضعْ عسى الحبيبُ الى

وصلِك من بعد هجرِه عائدْ

Be humble, perhaps after his estrangement, the beloved

Will unite with you

ولا تقلْ نام طول ليلته

وبتُّ في طول ليلتي ساهِدْ

Don't say he slept all night long

While I stayed awake all night long, upset

فمذهبُ العاشقين ذاك فقدْ

أضحى عليه كلامهم واحدْ

For that is the way of lovers, their words

Have become one

لله ظبيٌ أغرُّ مختصَرُ ال

خصْر غريرٌ عني غدا شارِدْ

A young gazelle, with a delicate and short

Neck, a fawn whose eyes have wandered

قد صاد قلبي ولن ترى عجباً

كنافرٍ في نِفاره صائد

It captured my heart, it is no wonder

That an unbeliever continues in his unbelief, like a hunter

يا صاحبيّ اتركا ملامَكُما

لا تزرَعا الشّرّ إنه فاسِدْ

My friend, stop your blame

Do not plant evil, for it is corrupt

وكاعبٍ ناهدٍ وريحَ فتًى

أصبح صبّاً بكاعبٍ ناهدْ

Like a playing boy, a sleepy one, and the youthful breeze

That has become morning drizzle playing with a sleepy one

خُمْصانةٍ طَفلةٍ خدلّجةٍ

سارتْ على ظهرِ بازلٍ واخدْ

A young spirited girl with curly hair

Walked on the back of a firm, one-humped camel

أفقدَني الصبرَ بينُها وغدا

شوقي لما ترحّلَتْ زائدْ

Her parting made me lose patience, and my longing

For her increased after she traveled

من يحمَدُ الآن ذا الزمانَ فما

أصبحت ممّنْ غدا له حامدْ

Who can praise this time? It has become

One where there are few who praise it

لقد رماني بأسهُم تركَتْ

قلبيَ حيرانَ قائماً قاعِدْ

Its arrows have struck me, leaving

My confused heart standing still

فقرٌ يحاذي صبابةً أبداً

وغربةٌ ما بلاؤها واحدْ

Poverty that always competes with youth

And estrangement whose afflictions are one

لولا الإمام الأجلُّ يُدرِكُني

بالعَذْبِ من بحر جودِه الباردْ

If it were not for the most glorious Imam

Who quenches my thirst with the cool water of his generosity

متّ ولكنه تداركَني

أكرِمْ به من مهذّب ماجدْ

I would have died but he saved me

Honor him, the refined and glorious one

أبو العلا وابنها فلا عدِم ال

مولودَ منها الزمانُ والوالدْ

Abu Al-Ala and his son, may the days

When he and his father lived not cease

إن قال أوفى بما يقولُ ومَنْ

عداه لو قال ماطلُ واعدْ

If he makes a promise he fulfills it, and if

Another person makes a promise, he breaks it and disappoints

يذودُ عن عِرضِه وما هوَ عن

لُهاهُ طولَ الزمان بالذّائدْ

He protects his honor, and was never

Distracted from doing so, for ages

صفاءُ أعراضِه على كرمِ ال

أخلاقِ أخلاقِه غَدا شاهدْ

The purity of his character and noble manners

Bare witness to this

بحرُ نداه بحرٌ طمى فلذا

لم يخْلُ من صادرٍ ومن واردْ

His generosity is an ocean whose waves crash and so

It never lacks one who takes or one who gives

يُرى العِدى نحوَه بأجمعهم

ذا راكعٌ تارةً وذا ساجدْ

They are all seen bowing down before him

Sometimes kneeling, sometimes prostrating

من قاسَ وجهَ الإمام أحمدَ بال

بدرِ فعندي قياسُه فاسِدْ

Whoever compares the face of Imam Ahmed to a

Full moon, I see his analogy as faulty

البدر طوراً تراه ينقصُ وال

حافظُ ما زال ضوؤهُ زائدْ

The full moon wanes at times, while

The Protector’s light always increases

يا من عطاياهُ عند أجمعنا

منها طريفٌ في إثْرِه تالِد

O you whose gifts, all of us agree

Some ancient and some recent

جودُك أزرى بحاتمٍ وغدَتْ

علياكَ ترمي ما قد بنى خالدْ

Your generosity rivals Hatim’s and surpassed

What Khaled ibn Al Waleed built

أتاك فاهْنأْ به إذاً رجبٌ

ولتَهْنِه أنت أيها الماجدْ

So celebrate as Rajab has come to you

O glorious one

وهاك بكراً أتتك تخطِرُ في

ثوبَيْ فخارٍ وسؤدُدٍ شائِدْ

And the first born comes announcing in the garb

Of happy tidings

واسلَمْ ودُمْ في النعيمِ يا علَمَ الد

هرِ حقيقاً وملجأَ القاصدْ

Greet and live in bliss forever O flag of the days

And destination of seekers

لا زلتَ صِنوَ العُلا ومجتمَعَ ال

فضلِ وغيظَ العدوّ والحاسدْ

You still are the stronghold of supremacy, the place where

Virtue gathers, and vexation of the enemy and envious