من للفقير المشتكي من حاله

والمذنب المحزون من أفعاله

Who but the invisible saints, the zealous ones

The rightly guided, guides the wandering, despondent one

إلا رجال الغيب أصحاب الحمى

أهل الهدى للحائر المتواله

My masters, your slave lingers at your door

Distressed is his state and confused his situation

يا سادتي عبد على أعتابكم

ضاق المقام به وضاع بحاله

He persisted in sins in all his affairs

And companied evil in his actions

لزم الخطايا في جميع أموره

واستصحب العصيان في أعماله

He rode sins and sailed the seas of passion

And came to forbidden pastures wearing the garb of misguidance

ركب الذنوب وسار في بحر الهوى

وأتى الرحاب مسربلاً بضلاله

Ashamed, sad, fearful of his sin

Burdened to his back with its weight

خجل كئيب خائف من ذنبه

وجل حتى الظهر من أثقاله

He walked the path, following your way

Yet wasted your companionship with his words

سلك الطريق مقلداً بسلوككم

وأضاع خدمة سلككم بمقاله

And came with a claim of love, knocking at your door

With the shackles of ignorance bound to his tale

وأتى بدعوى الحب يقرع بابكم

والجهل منعقد على أذياله

And refused to repent without attaining your patronage

Despite knowing his shortcoming in his ways

وأبى الإياب بغير نيل نوالكم

مع علمه التقصير في منواله

The calamities of his sins have swept your gardens

And the birds of his temptations told of his hopes

وشدت بلابل ذنبه برياضكم

وحكت طيور غواه عن آماله

So by your right, be generous to him as he wishes

And show kindness, pitying his state

فبحقكم جودوا له بمراده

وتحننوا عطفاً على أحواله

And honor him with a merciful glance

And join the ropes of your patronage to his

وتكرموا لطفاً عليه بنظرةٍ

وصلوا حبال نوالكم بحباله

And take him into the sea of your shelter and unveil

His afflictions by delivering him from his anguish

وخذوه في بحر الحناية واكشفوا

بلواه بالإخراج من أوحاله

My masters, be generous for the sanctity of your worth

For your slaves have become like a mirage

يا سادتي كرماً بعزة قدركم

فعبيدكم أضحى كشخص خياله

They have become strangers, displaced from their tribes

Scattered from their homes and families

أمسى غريباً نازحاً عن أهله

ومشتتاً عن بيتهم وعياله

His friend cries for him longingly

While his enemy rejoices at his misery

فصديقه يبكي عليه تشوقاً

وعدوه في فرحة لنكاله

Far be it from you to abandon a child of yours

Whose family now cries for their young

حاشاكموا أن تتركوا طفلاً لكم

أبكاه بعد الدار عن أطفاله

For you is generosity, for none but you

And privilege - your house gleams with its crescent moon

لكم المروة لا لغير جنابكم

والفضل هيكلكم بنور هلاله

Yours is the station of pride that shines in the world

Like the sun with its rising and setting

ولكم مقام الفخر يلمع في الورى

كالشمس لاح بحاله وبقاله

And yours is the hand of aid, from your Lord

Inclined by the secret of His beauty and majesty

ولكم يد المدد التي من ربكم

منحنت بسر جماله وجلاله

And yours is the news from the unseen by way of inspiration

And attaining the Messenger and his progeny

ولكم عن الغيب التلقي في السرا

ولكم وصول بالرسول وآله

My masters - at your door hopes the yearner

Cut off from his tribe and his men

يا سادتي وجل ببابكم التجا

متنصلاً عن أهله ورجاله

He left the intermediaries, flying to you

For your doorstep suffices to solve his problems

ترك الوسائط طائراً بجنابكم

وجنابكم كفؤ لحل عقاله

How many destitutes upon your gaze

The birds of pride fluttered beneath their shadows

كم من فقيرٍ كان مذكنتم له

رقصت طيور الفخر تحت ظلاله

Show kindness to your feeble slave with a glance

By which reform may come to his damaged state

حنوا على العبد الضعيف بنظرة

يأتي الصلاح بها لمفسد حاله

While people enjoy union, he remains cut off

So cease from estranging him - make his desolation his consolation

فالناس في وصل وذاك بقطعة

فكفى الجفا منواله بوصاله

His state is miserable while he still hopes

For your favor - so bring him nearer to his hopes

أمسى ذليل الحال وهو مؤمل

إحسانكم فادنواه من آماله

For with but a breath of your gaze upon him

He will live again - that breath will revive his family

فبنفحه أن تنظروه بعطفكم

يحيى ويسرى ذاك منه لآله

Far be it after standing at your door

That you deny him that which is on his mind

حاشاكموا بعد الوقوف ببابكم

أن تمنعوا عنه الذي في باله

Make the means Ahmad the succor, who

Inherited the patronage from his father and uncle

جعل الوسيلة أحمد الغوث الذي

ورث العناية عن أبيه وخاله

Pole of the world, the lion, our Shaykh Refa'i

In whose shade the saints take shelter

قطب الورى الأسد الرفاعي شيخنا

من تستظل الأوليا بظلاله

The sign of spiritual men, guide of every path

Pole around whom all turn, his state reflects theirs

علم الرجال أمام كل طريقة

قطب الجميع وحالهم من حاله

Crown of shayks in Iraq and lands beyond

The imam to emulate in his perfection

تاج المشايخ في العراق وغيرها

وهو الإمام المقتدي بكماله

So by his right, and the right of his adherents

And his party, army, progeny and house

فبحقه وبحق أهل طريقه

وبحزبه وبجيشه وبآله

And by the right of the Allah’s pole and the saints’ patron

Who drowned seekers in his endless bestowals

وبحق بان اللَه قطب الأوليا

من أغرق الطلاب من أفضاله

Sun of Iraq, essence of aid, whose states

Bear witness to his conditions

شمس العراق حقيقة المدد الذي

أطواره دلت على أحواله

And my master, savior of his times’ prisoner

Rescuer of the disgraced from their chains

وبسيدي النبيو غوث زمانه

منجي أسير الذل من أغلاله

And in the presence of Shaykh Disuqi, who settled

The affairs of saints through his perfections's sign

وبحضرة الشيخ الدسوقي من أقر

ر الأوليا بعلي كامل حاله

And in the presence of Shaykh Ahmad, our hunter

Reviver of our path with his beauty’s light

وبحضرة الصياد أحمد شيخنا

محي طريقتنا بنور جماله

And by every pole who attained gnosis of their Lord

And every Shaykh transcending his peers

وبكل قطب عارف في ربه

وبكل شيخ فاق عن أمثاله

And all of Allah’s people - and specifically the pole

To whose wisdom the age returned and speech

وبجميع أهل اللَه بالقطب الذي

رجع الزمان لرأيه ومقاله

And all of you - pardon a slave of yours

And bear well what burden he carried

وبكم جميعاً سامحوا عبداً لكم

وتحملوا ما كان من أثقاله

And with a kind caress enable him to attain his hopes

Be generous, do not deprive him of his aspirations

وبعطفكم قوموا لنيل مراده

كرماً ولا تقصوه عن آماله

For he has vicious dogs who rejoiced at what

The separation heaved upon him of anguish

فله كلاب أذية فرحوا بما

نقر الفراق عليه من جلجاله

They envied him since you backed him and overstepped

In their villainy, envious of his phantom

حسدوه مذ كنتم له وتطاولوا

من لؤمهم حسداً لبغض خياله

They thought the carpet of your honor folded from him

And he woke regretting his state

ظنوا بأن بساط عزكم انطوى

عنه وأصبح نادماً في حاله

He is your child - and it would be a disgrace

For the dogs’ paws to wreak havoc on your cubs

هو طفلكم والسبع عيب أن يرى

أيدي الكلاب تصول في أشباله

Is it not jealousy that the hand of your generosity

Leaves the envious boiling with animosity’s schemes?

هل غيرة من باب جانب جودكم

تبقى الحسود بغيظ كيد ضلاله

Is it not a breath or glance or succor

To raise your beloved to attain his prize?

هل نفحة هل نظرة هل غوثةٌ

ترقى خويدكم لنيل مناله

So by your right - his state has not parted

From your doors nor shall his face see any change

فوحقكم ما حال عن أبوابكم

أبداً ولا وجهاً يرى لحاله

Succor and help! My masters, O my masters!

For my tears grow weary of flowing

غوثاً وعوناً سادتي يا سادتي

فالدمع قد أعيا من إرساله

It has dug cheeks and cut the cheeks’ streams

To streak the face - so be close to your soldier!

حفر الخدود وجر أخدود العنى

بالوجه فالتف بضي زلاله

He is the lowly Khalidi, Abul Huda

Seeker of patronage’s grace from its valiant granter

فهو الحقير الخالدي أبو الهدى

راجي نواله الفيض من أبطاله

The poem is concluded with prayers and peace

Upon the beloved Guide and his family

ختم القصيدة بالصلاة مسلماً

فيها على الهادي الحبيب وآله

And upon all his companions and those who tread

The way he set by the command of his perfection

وعلى جميع الصحب والقوم الذي

ن مشوا على منواله أمر كماله

And upon the invisible saints who never deviated

From aiding the complaining destitute in his life

وعلى رجال الغيب ما حادشدا

من للفقير المشتكي من حاله