لك بين سفار الحمى اسماء
طابت بها الاسماع يا اسماء
You have names among the envoys of passion
That pleased the ears, O Asma!
ساروا اليك وللقلوب باسرها
وله عليك وللعيون بكاء
They went to you, and to the hearts secretly,
And to it upon you, and to the eyes with crying.
الله من داء الغرام فما له
ابدا سوى قرب الحبيب دواء
O Allah from the disease of passion, so he has
Never but the proximity of the beloved is the cure.
عاتبت بالوهم الزمان واهله
وغلطت ما لبني الزمان وفاء
You blamed time and its people with illusion
And you were wrong, the children of time have no loyalty.
قل الكرام وقل من هو عارف
ما هم عيه وقلت العرفاء
Say the generous and say who is knowledgeable
Not preoccupied with it, and you said the gnostics.
مزجت من الزمن الشؤن بريبة
فالنار والماء النمير سواء
You mixed from time suspicions
So fire and cold water are equal.
والهم عم اولى الفضائل واحتست
كأس الصفاء لجهلها الجهلاء
And worry about the foremost in virtues, and you reckoned
A cup of purity for its ignorant.
ما للزمان وهمه الا الذي
لاذت بظل رحابه العظماء
Time has no worries but which
The great took refuge in the shade of its courtyards.
طه حبيب الله سيد خلقه
سبب الوجود القبضة البيضاء
Taha the beloved of Allah, the master of His creation
The reason for existence, the white handful.
وبنوه حزب الله أعيان الورى
غر الجباه السادة النجباء
And his children the party of Allah, the notables of the world
Who bare their foreheads, the masters, the honorable.
لي من صدور كبارهم جدله
همم بها لاولي السقام شفاء
I have from the generosity of its elders, their determination
With which for the healing of the sick, a cure.
مولاي صياد القلوب عمادها
وضياؤها ان غلغلت ظلماء
My Master, the hearts' hunter, its pillar
And its light if the darkness stirred.
الغوث عز الدين احمد مقتدى
اهل الهدى اذ تغلط الاهواء
Succor of the religion, Ahmed the guided one
The people of guidance if desires went astray.
شبل الرفاعي الكبير بن الحسي
ن هزبرها ان زمجرت دهماء
Cub of the towering, the great son of Al-Hussein
Their lion if the unjust roared.
الواضح الشرف المسلسل من بني السب
طين نعم الابنوالاباء
The evident, the noble, the consecutive from the children of Sibt
Good clay, excellent son and fathers!
فابوه حيدرة الوصي وجده
طه النبي وامه الزهراء
His father the trustee's successor and his grandfather
Is Taha the Prophet and his mother is Az-Zahraa.
خفقت عليه طوال الوية العلا
في الخافقين وحظه العلياء
The banners of loftiness fluttered over him
In the two horizons, and his share is the most high.
اعتابه حصن النزيل وبابه
بظلاله لاولي القلوب رجاء
His reproach is the visitor's fortress, and his door
In its shadows is the hearts' hope.
والاسد كم امت شريف رحابه
ونقابها بوصيده الحصباء
And the lion, how many noble courtyards
And its burrows with his spearheads.
والميت احياه الاله تكرما
بدعائه وتواتر الانباء
And the dead, he revived by the God's generosity
With his prayer and recurring news.
وقضى بدهش الطور عاما ساجدا
وعليه من نور الجلال بهاء
And he spent a year bowed down in Mount Tur
Upon him from the light of majesty a brilliance.
استاذ قطر الشام سيده الذي
دانت له البعداء والاكفاء
The teacher of the Levant, its master which
The distant and the near submitted to.
سلطان اهل الله شيخ كبارهم
حامي الحمى ان انشبت غماء
The sultan of God's people, the sheikh of their elders
The protector of the sanctuary if clouds stirred.
ذخري الامام ابو علي ندبة ال
حلهوف اذ تتخالف الاراء
My reserve, the Imam Abu Ali the weeping
For calamities if opinions differed.
ويفيض بالله الاغاثة مسرعا
فكأنها الهبابة الهوجاء
And he overflows with God relief hastily
As if it is the sweeping gust.
وبآل زين العابدين له انجلى
شرف لكوكبه القلوب سماء
And through the House of Zayn al-Abideen he has
A nobility, for his star the hearts a sky.
شهدت له الشهداء من اهل الوحا
والاولياء الزهر والنجباء
The martyrs of the inspiration testified for him
And the saints, the flowers and the honorable.
مولى له المولى افاض مناقبا
يزهو بها الاصباح والامساء
My Master has mastered attributes
That the dawn and the evening bloom with it.
هو ركن ظهري في الحياة وفي غد
والصالحون أولوا الهدى شفعاء
He is the pillar of my back in life and tomorrow
And the righteous are the guided intercessors.
وبنوا الني اجل ركبان الحمى
تدري بذا الغبراء والخضراء
And the children of the Prophet, the best riders of the sanctuary
You know, with this dust and greenery.
صلى الاله على المكرم جدهم
من أبرزت عن طيه الاشياء
May Allah send prayers upon their grandfather
Who brought forth from his folds the things.
والآل عترته الكريمة والألى
اصحابه ما سحت الانواء
And upon his good family and companions
As long as the waves of time flow.