لا العيد مِن بَعد سُكان الحِمى عيدُ

وَلا لِصَبري الَّذي أَبليت تَجديدُ

The feast is no feast without my beloved's people,

Nor is my patience which I wasted renewed,

سيان عِنديَ نوح بَعد بَينَهُم

وَمِن بَلابل دَوح اللَهو تَغريدُ

It is the same to me if Noah wept for their separation,

Or the singing of bulbuls in the gardens of Dawood.

قَد أَغرَقَت مُقلَتي قَلبي بِأَدمُعِها

إِن السُرور الَّذي أُبديهِ تَقليدُ

My eyelids drowned my heart with their tears.

If I show joy, it is but pretense.

لَو كُنتُ أَعلَم إِن الوَعد آخِرُهُ

يُجدى مِن الحُب أَغنَتني المَواعيدُ

Had I known the promise's end

Would renew my love, promises would have deluded me.

سَهران لَيل فراق مالُهُ سحر

وَالسُبُل مَجهولة وَالنجم مَفقود

I stayed up the night we parted, it had no dawn,

The paths unknown and the star gone.

أَشكو النَوى فَيرق الصَخر مُستَمِعاً

لَما أَبث وَتَبكي حالَتي البيدُ

I complain to the beloved and the rock softens listening

To my sorrows while my condition decays.

هب أَنَّهُم بَخِلوا بِالوَصل لَيتَ لَهُم

ما يُشغل الفكر تَسويف وَتَفنيدُ

If only they were miserly with union, if only for them

Preoccupations of procrastination and argument.

إِذ لَيسَ لي طَمَع في زور طَيفهم

وَإِن طَمعت فَباب النَوم مَسدودُ

For I have no hope in the specter of their illusion,

And if I hoped, the door of sleep is shut.

قَد حَمَلوا اليَوم مَضنى القَلب عَبا نَوى

تَكل عَن حَملِهِ الوخادة القودُ

Today they carried the burden of my heart,

The pillow gave up carrying that load.

بانوا فَلا عَيشَنا تَصفو مَوارِدَهُ

شَوقاً وَلا ظَلَ ذاكَ العَيش مَمدودُ

They left, so our life has no pure springs,

Longingly, nor does that life last extended.

وَلا الدِيار الَّتي بِالشام مُشرِقَةُ ال

أَطلال يَختالُ فيها بَعدَنا الخودُ

Nor are the lands in Damascus shining,

Except ruins the tattoo wanders among after us.

دارٌ إِذا ضَل عَنها الضَيف تُرشِدَه

مِن المَواقد فيها النِد وَالعودُ

A house that when the guest loses its way,

Guides him with fires, hospitality and wood.

قَد كانَ عَهدي بِها وَالأُسد رابِضَة

مِن حَولِها وَبِها الشم الصَناديدُ

That was my experience with it, while lions prowled

Around it, and it had young courageous men.

لا أَوحش اللَه مِن قَوم صَغيرَهُم

مِن أَكبَر الناس بِالإِحسان مَعدودُ

May God not make miserable a people whose young

Are counted with the greatest men in kindness.

إِني لَأَحسد قَلبي حَيث يَتبَعهُم

وَأَندب الجسم مني وَهُوَ مَبعودُ

I envy my heart that follows them,

And lament my body when it is abandoned.

وَالآن لي عَوض عَمَن فَجَعتُ بِهِ

عِندَ الإِمام وَحيد الدَهر مَوجودُ

And now instead of those I grieved over,

I have the Imam, the unique of the age, found.

جَمال وَجه الهُدى وَالدين مِن نَقلت

لَنا حَديث سَجاياهُ الأَسانيدُ

The beauty of the face of guidance and religion

Whose narrations the narrators transmitted to us.

نجل الوَلي الَّذي شاعَت مَناقِبُهُ

مَنصور مِن دَأبِهِ ذكر وَتَوحيدُ

The son of the Righteous One whose virtues

Spread, Mansoor whose work is remembrance and oneness.

مُذ لاحَ صُبح الغِنى مِن نور غُرَتِهِ

زالَت لَيالي اِفتِقار كُلَها سودُ

Since the dawn of riches shone from his rising sun

All the dark nights of poverty disappeared.

مَن حَلَ ساحتَهُ فازَت مَقاصِدُهُ

بِالنَجح إِذ هُوَ لِلآمال مَقصودُ

Whoever frequents him, his purposes succeed

With success, as he is the destination of hopes.

إِني عَرَفتُ بِهِ فَالشامُ تَحسِدُني

وَكُلُ ذي نِعمة في الناس مَحسودُ

I knew through him, so Damascus envies me

And all endowed among the people envy me.

أَسدى إِلَيَّ يَداً أَحياءُ ناشكرت

صَنيعَها وَأب في اللَحد مَلحودُ

He extended a hand to me, so I thanked

Its bounty, though a father lies in the grave slighted.

وَافيتُهُ فَسمعت السَعد يُنشِدُني

مِن أُم باب سَعيد فَهُوَ مَسعودُ

I went to him, so I heard good fortune chant to me

"Good tidings, you have come to one always fortunate."

وَزُرتَهُ لا سِوى ظِلي يُسايِرُني

ثُم اِنثَنيت وَحَولي الغيد وَالصَيدُ

I visited him, none but my shadow accompanied me,

Then I turned back, while game and prey surrounded me.

شِعري يُحسّنهُ فيهِ المَديح كَما

يُحسن العِقد مِن ذات البَها جيدُ

My poetry adorns praise of him therein

As jewelry adorns the beautiful neck.