اطلت بالوجنا السرى فمدارها

وانزل حمى مي وقف بدارها

I set out with the pillow of my secret

And descended into a feverish love for her abode

واذكر رسوماً طالما تشقت

روحك نشر البشر من معطارها

And I recall traits I have longed for

Your soul emanates fragrances that captivate people

كأنما الاقمار في رقاعها

منسوجة والمسك في غبارها

As if the moons on their parchments

Were woven and musk was in their dust

بلى واين المسك من ترابها

ولمعة الاقمار من اقمارها

Yes, where is musk compared to her soil?

And the radiance of the moons to her moons?

اشجارها العقول وهي لا خفا

دقائق العلوم من اثمارها

Her trees are minds, silently growing

Subtleties of knowledge as their fruits

تجلو قذى العيون بانبلاجها

وتشرح الصدور باخضرارها

Clearing the motes in eyes with their brilliance

And gladdening hearts with their greenery

نبات روض الفهم في غياضها

فمعقد الطرز على ازهارها

The garden of understanding grows in her thickets

So the patterns are tied into her flowers

وواردات الغيب لو فكرتها

جداول تسبح في انهارها

And if you contemplate the streams of the unseen

They are brooks glorifying in her rivers

مفضض فضاؤها تخاله

متوج الهامات من نضارها

Dazzling is her splendor, you'd think

The new moons were crowned by her freshness

من كل واد اشرقت قيعانه

ورق صوت اللطف من اطيارها

From every valley shone its depths

The voice of charm from her birds

تجسمت تلك الطيور عسجداً

ورصع الياقوت في منقارها

Those birds took form prostrating

Ruby adorns their beaks

كانما القلوب بعض صفها

طائرة تأوي الى اوكارها

As if hearts were part of her ranks

Birds nestling in their burrows

الله من قيعان مي انها

لجنة محرقة بنارها

By God, the depths of my love for her

Are a pyre aflame with its fires

يا راكب الوجناء ان نزلتها

وفاجأتك الشمس من مدارها

O rider of passions, if you alight

And the sun surprises you on its course

فاعقل لها الفؤاد ان عندها

غزالة يخاف من نفارها

Then reason with it, for she has

A gazelle fearful of being startled

آلت على المحب ان لا يلتوي

ضميره يوما إلى اغيارها

It's inevitable for the lover that he never

Turns his conscience to others, even one day

وعقدت حب قلوب كلها

معقودة العقول في ازرارها

She tied the hearts' love, all of them

United minds knotted in her bonds

تسلطنت على رفيع عرشها

وصار جيش الحسن من امارها

She ruled her lofty throne

And her troops of beauty became her guard

وانفذت في الخافقين امرها

وهاب قلب الدهر من اخطارها

She exerted her command in both horizons

And the heart of time was awed by her dangers

كانما الغوث الرفاعي شيخها

وسره الفعال من انصارها

As if the Raefa'i saint was her sheikh

And his mysterious being her supporter

امام هدي اعجزت آياته

عصابة الضلال باستمرارها

The signs of his guidance defeated

The gang of misguidance by persisting

تتلى على منابر العلا وقد

يلمع نور القرب من اخبارها

Recited on the minbars of supremacy though

The light of nearness gleams in her news

تطوف منها تجب العرفان في

اصاغر القوم وفي كبارها

Circling her, gnosis is duty-bound even for

The lowliest and greatest of people

ويستفيض الصالحون فيضها

من غيب الرجال او حضارها

And the righteous overflow with her abundance

Whether absent or present among her

لله منه سيد ذو همة

تجري بحور الفتح من زخارها

To God belongs that master of resolve

Whose seas of conquest surge with foam

ملاحظ اتباعه بعزمه

وآخذ مدى المدى يثارها

Observing his followers with his determination

And undertaking the ultimate goal insistently

وقاطع حبل العدى بصدمة

يبدو عجيب الفتك من بتارها

And cutting the cord of enmity with a blow

Revealing wondrous fatality in his sharpness

سيرته لوح الغيوب امتلأت

صحائف الكون من اختصارها

His conduct filled the tablets of the unseen

The pages of existence summarized in her

لاذت به سادات حزب الاوليا

فافرغ القلوب في اطوارها

The masters of the party of saints sought refuge in him

So he poured hearts into his molds

تشبثت اقطابها بذيله

وسره سرى الى كبارها

Her poles clung to his tail

And his secret circulated among her greatest

ولازمت اعيانها رحابه

فصانها بالفضل من عثارها

Her notables kept to his sanctuary

So he protected them from disgrace through his merit

وكم ليال قطعت بسوحه

طواله ضن على قصارها

And how many nights in her plain

The lion prowled round its shortness

تربض اسد الغاب في اعتابه

وتطرح الحمل على جدارها

The lion of the jungle crouches at his door

And the lamb reclines on her wall

ناب برشد عن ابيه المصطفى

بحكمة يعجز عن اصدارها

He followed, guided by his father Mustafa’s wisdom,

With wisdom beyond any match

فسار منه وارد الارشاد في

انجاد ارضنا وف ياغوارها

And from him came guidance’s downpour in

Reviving our land both far and near

له اصح الارض عن آبائه

سادات قادات الورى خيارها

For him the best of soils after his fathers

The prime leaders of creation, her finest

له اليد البيضا التي مدت لها

يد رسول الله من مزارها

For him the white hand that extended to him

The hand of God’s Messenger from his tomb

وانشقت الحجرة اعزازاً له

وانكشف المسدول من ستارها

The chamber split in reverence for him

And the veiled was uncovered from its cloak

وعمه فيض الرضا من فضلها

واغرقته من ندا بحارها

And the pleasure of his merit engulfed it

And its abundant favor drowned it

فحوزه الاقبال من قبولها

وطوله الاثير من آثارها

So good fortune came to him through its acceptance

And eternity through its vestiges

انعم به من هاشميّ اعظم

حضرته الفلاح درع جارها

He was blessed through the greatest Hashimite

His noble self the shield of her neighbor

اظهره بارؤها بدولة

كل قوى الزمان عن اضمارها

He made him apparent with her first glance

When all the age's powers were concealed

بالله جد يا سيدي بنظرة

اقتبس الفتوح من انظارها

For God’s sake strive, my master, with a look

To obtain openings through her glances

وصل حنانا قطع نفسي انها

قد كلفت يا جد من لوزارها

Join with affection—my soul is pledged, for it

Has burdened me, my lord, apart from your presence

فانت في ذا البيت شيخ عصبة

كبارها تحنو الى صغارها

You in this house are sheikh of the faction

Whose great ones incline toward their small

عليك ما زالت ميازيب الرضا

ثجود بالهتان من مدرارها

Upon you still descend the dews of pleasure

Pouring with love from her cisterns

وعبد القادر الجيلي شيخ ال

شيوخ العارف الاسد الشهير

And Abdul Qadir the Gilani, sheikh of

Sheikhs, the famous gnostic lion

وسامي الهمة البدوي ذخري

ابو الفتيان ضيغمها الغيور

And Sami the high-minded Bedouin, my generation’s treasure

Father of chivalrous youths, the zealous guardian

وجحجاح الحمى القطب الدسوقي

بعيد الغاية القرم الخطير

And Jehjah the protector, the Qutb of Desouk

Far-reaching, valiant, and formidable

هم في القوم اربعة بدور

بهم بدجا الملمة نستنير

They four in the people are cycles

Through them confused matters are illuminated

صدور الاولياء بلا نزاع

واهل الله كلهم صدور

The mystics' breasts without dispute

And all the people of God are breasts