أَمَّا رِضَاكَ عُمُومُهُ وَخُصُوصُهُ

فَمُنَاخَةٌ بِذُرَى الْمُنِيبِ قُلُوصُهُ

Your pleasure, in totality and specifics

As for Your pleasure, its general grace and its specific,

Is cultivated by sincere hearts' chastity

Are the high-peak resting place for the penitent’s camel.

وَهُدَاكَ جَلَّ هُدَاكَ يَلْزَمُ كُلًّ مَنْ

لَزِمَ الضَّلاَلَ مَحِيصُهُ وَحُيُوصُهُ

And Your guidance - exalted is Your guidance - necessitates

And Your guidance—exalted is Your guidance—compels everyone who

That one who clung to misguidance forsakes his disobedience

Clings to misguidance, to be his escape and his evasion.

وَجَدَاكَ مُنْسَجِمُ الْغَمَائِمِ عِنْدَ مَنْ

لَزِمَ اصْفِرَاراً مِنْ جَلاَلِكَ بُوصُهُ

Your generosity, like gathering clouds, is with one

And Your bounty is the pouring rain-clouds for the one who,

Who clung to humility due to Your majesty

Out of awe for Your majesty, remains pale in complexion.

يَدْنُو لِمَنْ يَدْنُو بِبَابِكَ وَاثِقاً

بِكَ مُهْطِعاً صَدْرَ الْيَقِينِ وَبُوصُهُ

One who comes close to You, confident

It draws near to whoever approaches Your door with trust,

In You, submissive - his heart and mind surrendered

In You, hurrying forward with the vanguard of certainty and its advance.

وَيَخُصُّ خِزْيُكَ يَا مُخَصِّصُ كُلَّ مَنْ

قَدْ خُصَّ فِي شَيْءٍ سِوَاكَ خُصُوصُهُ

And Your humiliation specifically afflicts one who

And Your disgrace, O Allocator, singles out everyone

Singled out anything besides You - his uniqueness forgotten

Whose particular devotion is aimed at anything other than You.

خَلَّصْتَ مِنْ هُوَى الْهَوَى مَنْ قَدْ بَدَا

لَكَ رَبَّنَا إِخْلاَصُهُ وَخُلُوصُهُ

You saved from passions of passion whom

You have rescued from the abyss of desires the one whose

Showed sincerity to You - his purity and emptiness

Sincerity and purity have become manifest to You, our Lord.

سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ مَا مِنْ كَائِنٍ

إِلاَّ وَمِنْكَ فُرُوعُهُ وَأُصُوصُهُ

Glory to You O God - nothing exists

Glory be to You, O Allah! There is no existing being

But that its branches and roots are from You

Except that its branches and its roots derive from You.

عَمَّ الْخَلاَئِقَ جُودُكَ الْغَمْرُ الذِي

مِنْهُ الْوُجُودُ عُرُوقُهُ وَفُصُوصُهُ

Your all-encompassing grace which encompassed creation

Your overwhelming generosity has encompassed all creation, that from which

From it existence, its veins and essence

All existence, its veins and its essences, emerges.

أَوْرَدْتَنَا مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا أَوْجَدْتَنَا

بَحْراً غَلَتْ أَصْدَافُهُ وَفُصُوصُهُ

You let us drink after creating us

After bringing us into existence, You led us to the watering-hole

An ocean - its oysters and pearls overflowing

Of a sea whose shells and gemstones are of boundless worth.

فَالرَّوْضُ قَدْ فَاحَتْ بِهِ أَزْهَارُهُ

وَالْغُصْنُ قَدْ غَنَّى بِهِ بَلَصُوصُهُ

The garden, its flowers have bloomed from it

Thus, the garden's flowers have exhaled their fragrance through it,

And the branch, its pods have sung from it

And the branch's warbler has sung melodiously because of it.

وَالْحَوْضُ قَدْ رَقَّتْ سَجَايَا مَائِهِ

بِهِ فَانْتَشَى مِنْ عَذْبِهِ دُعْمُوصُهُ

And the pond - its clear water bubbles

And the pool’s water has become pure and gentle in its nature through it,

From its sweetness, the cistern overflowed

So that its tiny creatures are intoxicated by its sweetness.

وَالْبَحْرُ قَدْ سَبَحَتْ بِهِ حِيتَانُهُ

وَالْبَرُّ مِنْهُ وُعُوثُهُ وَدُعُوصُهُ

And the sea - its whales swam in it

And the sea—its whales have swam within it,

And the land - its thorns and brambles from it

And the land derives its soft sands and its dunes from it.

وَبِهِ اسْتَنَارَ الأُفْقُ أَشْرَقَ شُمْسُهُ

وَهِلاَلُهُ وَعَبُورُهُ وَغَمُوصُهُ

And from it the horizon gleamed - its sun rose

And by it, the horizon is illuminated, its sun shining brightly,

Its crescent, crossing, and setting

Along with its crescent moon, its crossing Sirius, and its weeping sister star.

شَهِدَتْ بِوَحْدَتِكَ الْعَوَالِمُ كُلُّهَا

بُعْداً لِمَنْ قَدْ بَانَ عَنْكَ نُكُوصُهُ

The worlds all witness Your Oneness

All the worlds have testified to Your absolute Oneness;

Cursed is he from You who retreats and recoils

Ruin to the one whose turning away from You has become evident!

نَطَقَ الْجَمَادُ بِذَاكَ وَالْحَيَوَانُ قَدْ

بَهَرَتْ وَقَدْ ظَهَرَتْ عَلَيْهِ نُصُوصُهُ

The inanimate spoke of that, and animals -

Inanimate objects have spoken of this, and living creatures have

Its proofs have overwhelmed them and appeared to them

Been dazzled, while its clear proofs have appeared upon them.

وَالْعَالَمُ الْعُلْوِي وَالسُّفْلِي قَدْ

شَهِدَتْ بِهِ أَعْرَاضُهُ وَشُخُوصُهُ

And the higher world and lower -

And both the upper and the lower worlds have

Its attributes and forms have testified to it

Borne witness to it, through their accidents and their physical forms.

رُحْمَاكَ فِي قَلْبِي الْمُجَرَّحِ بِالْمُدَى

مِنْ بَاطِلِي فَعَلَيَّ عَزَّ حُمُوصُهُ

Your mercy in my heart wounded by falsehood

Have mercy on my heart, deeply wounded by the blades

Its severity has proved too heavy for me

Of my falsehood, for its healing is too difficult for me.

إِنْ لاَ تُخَلِّصْهُ يَكُنْ يَا رَبَّنَا

مِمَّا جَنَتْ أَيْدِي الضَّلاَلِ مُصُوصُهُ

If You do not deliver it, my Lord

If You do not rescue it, O our Lord, it will be

It will remain filled with the misguidance of hands

Sucked dry by what the hands of misguidance have wrought.

حُطْهُ وَحُصْهُ بِالتُّقَى يَا سَيِّدِي

مَنْ لِي سِوَاكَ يَحُوطُهُ وَيَحُوصُهُ

Protect it and fortify it with piety, my Master

Guard it and fortify it with piety, O my Master;

Who do I have besides You to surround and shield it?

For who do I have but You to protect and secure it?

وَاسْتُرْ عُبَيْدَكَ فِي دُنَاهُ وَوَارِهِ

حَتَّى يُوَارِيَ جِسْمَهُ قُرْمُوصُهُ

And conceal Your servants in their worldly lives

And veil Your little servant in his worldly life, and hide him,

Until their shrouds conceal their bodies

Until his earthly pit hides his body in the grave.

لاَ تَأْخُذَنْهُ بِمُقْتَضَى أَفْعَالِهِ

فَالْفِعْلُ أَشْتَرُ طَرْفِهِ مَبْخُوصُهُ

Do not take him for his acts

Do not hold him accountable according to the measure of his deeds,

The act - most of it is defective

For his deed is defective, with a drooping eyelid and a gouged-out eye.

هَذَا الزَّمَانُ وَأَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ بِالذِي

قَدْ سَاءَنِي أَخْنَى عَلَيَّ شُصُوصُهُ

You know best what this time

This era—and You know best what

Has saddened me - its sorrows pierce me

Has distressed me—its harshness has brought me to ruin.

لَأَظَلَّنِي مِنْهُ وَلاَ يَخْفَاكَ مَا

قَلْبِي بِهِ وَجَعُ الْحَشَا مَمْغُوصُهُ

It has shaded me, and what my heart

It has overshadowed me, and it is not hidden from You what

Contains of scratching sorrow does not escape You

My heart suffers from it, and the gripping pain in my bowels.

هَمِّي بِمَا جَاشَتْ بِهِ أَزَمَاتُهُ

طَيْرٌ أَحَصُّ جَنَاحِهِ مَقْصُوصُهُ

My worry with what its crises seethed

My grief, due to the crises that have surged within it,

A bird whose wings I count clipped

Is a bird entirely stripped of its feathers, its wings clipped.

لَقَضَى عَلَى الأَفْرَاحِ سُوقُ هُمُومِهِ

وَالْهَمُّ يَخْتَرِمُ السُّرُورَ شُمُوصُهُ

The lane of worries has ended joys

The market of its sorrows has put an end to all joys,

And worry shreds delight without effort

And the stubborn, fierce anxiety cuts off all delight.

لاَ تُسَلِّمْنِي لِلزَّمَانِ تَنِدُّ بِي

عَنْ ذَاكِرِيكَ قُلُوصُهُ وَأُصُوصُهُ

Do not deliver me to time which spurns me

Do not hand me over to time, lest I be driven away

From remembering You - its hearts and minds recoiled

From those who remember You, by its mounts and sturdy beasts.

وَتَنِدُّ بِي إِمَّا فَعَلْتُ عَنِ الْهُدَى

تَجْتَاحُنِي بِفَلاَ الضَّلاَلِ لُصُوصُهُ

And spurns me whenever I strayed from guidance

And they would drive me away from guidance, if You were to do so,

The misguidance of evil sweeps me in its night raids

While the thieves of misguidance ravage me in its wasteland.

فَوَسِيلَتِي لِرِضَاكَ جَاهُ مُحَمَّدٍ

أَزْكَى الْوَرَى سَامِي الْعُلاَ مَرْصُوصُهُ

So my means to Your pleasure is the status of Muhammed

So my means to Your pleasure is the rank of Muhammad,

The most virtuous of people, sublime lineage that climbs high

The purest of creation, of exalted heights, closely knit in virtue.

أَزْكَى صَلاَتِكَ لَا يَزَالُ أَرَاكُهَا

يُذْكِي فَماً لِضَرِيحِهِ وَيَشُوصُهُ

Your most virtuous prayer continues to illuminate

May Your purest blessings—whose miswak never ceases

A mouth at his shrine which kisses it

To sweeten and cleanse the mouth that speaks of his tomb—be upon him.

وَكَذَا جَمِيعُ الآلِ وَالأَصْحَابِ مَنْ

أَسْيَافُهُمْ نَخْلُ الرَّشَادِ وَخُوصُهُ

And likewise all the Family and Companions whose

And likewise upon all his family and companions, those whose

Swords are the lofty date palms of guidance and its husks

Swords are the palm-trees of right guidance and its fronds.

فَالرُّشْدُ مِنْ جَرَّاهُمُ سَامِي الطُّلَى

وَالْغَيُّ أَوْقَصُ جِيدِهِ مَوْقُوصُهُ

Guidance flows from drawing them near - sublime

For true guidance, because of them, holds its neck high,

And misguidance, its neck is severed and short

While error has a broken neck, its spine snapped.