قسَماً لقد رجَعَ النَّسيمُ عليلاً

لمّا سرَى منّي إليكِ رَسولا

I swear the breeze has come back to me ill,

When it traveled from me as a messenger to you,

فأتَى لبَرْحِ هَواكِ وهْو مرَدِّدٌ

نفَساً يُسارِقُه الأنامَ طويلا

It came desiring your love, repeating,

A soul stealing its breath for so long,

ورأى لحُبّكِ أنّه قد خانَني

فمضَى يَجُرُّ منَ الحياء ذُيولا

And it saw that your love had betrayed me,

So it went away dragging its train out of shame.

مسَح الدُّموعَ عنِ الجفونِ مُغالطاً

لكنْ رأَيْنا جَيْبَهُ مَبْلولا

It wiped the tears from its eyelids deceiving,

But we saw its chest soaked.

أفبَعْدَ ما نَمّت به أنفاسُه

أبْغي على الغَدَراتِ منه دَليلا

After it grew with my breaths,

Would I seek against its betrayal a proof?

لو لم يَنَلْ من فَضْلِ صُدغك جَذْبةً

لم يُهْدِ نَشْرَكِ للرّياضِ أصيلا

If it had not attained attraction from your cheek,

It would not have given your garden an original branch.

أوَ كُلّما بعث المُحبُّ رِسالةً

رجَع الرّسولُ بنَفْسِه مَشْغولا

Or whenever a lover sends a message,

The messenger returns preoccupied with himself.

سأعيشُ فرداً ما أُريدُ مُساعِداً

مِمّا أَرى أهْلَ الوفاء قليلا

I will live alone not wanting a helper,

From what I see the people of loyalty are few.

فلَوِ استطعتُ وما استطاعةُ مُغرَمٍ

لجعَلْتُ جَفْنَكِ بالسُّهادِ كَحيلا

If I could - and the enamored cannot,

I would make your eyelids with wakefulness kohl.

ومنَعْتُ طَيْفي أن يَزورَكِ خِيفةً

من أن يَخونَ كَغيْرِه ويَحولا

And prevent my specter from visiting you fearful,

That it would betray like others and change.

بل لو أذِنْتِ وقد بقيتُ منَ الضَّنى

شبَحاً لكنتُ من الخيالِ بديلا

Rather if you permitted and I remained from agony

A mirage, I would be to the imagination a substitute.

ولَجُزْتُ ساحةَ حيِّكمْ فطرقتُكمْ

مزُوراً ولم تَرَني العيونُ نُحولا

And I would frequent your courtyard, and visit you

A guest, and the eyes would not see me despondent.

عجباً عجِبْتُ من النّسيم إذا سرَى

واللّيلُ قد أرخَى عليه سُدولا

Strange, I was astonished by the breeze when it traveled,

And the night had let down its curtains on it.

مَغْبوقُ كأسِ هوىً أتاني عاثراً

في ذَيْلهِ سُكراً يَميلُ مَميلا

Intoxicated with a cup of passion it came to me stumbling,

Dragging its train in drunkenness leaning.

يَشكو إليَّ من الهوَى ما نالَه

وأبَى غَريقٌ أن يُغيثَ بلييلا

It complains to me of the passion of what befell it,

And a drowning man refused to be saved with little.

أصَباً تُسمَّى الآنَ أم صَبّاً فقد

شَملَ السّقامُ لنا الجسومَ شُمولا

Are our times called morning or evening, for sickness

Has encompassed our bodies completely?

لئن سَقُمْتُ لمَا صَبوْتُ إليهمُ

إلاّ وجَدْتُ على البعادِ سَبيلا

If I am sick from what I poured to them,

I only find over distance a way.

فارحَمْ فتىً أحبابهُ في قلبه

وإلى وصالٍ لا يُطيقُ وُصولا

So have mercy on a young man whose loved ones

Are in his heart, and to meeting cannot arrive.

أأحِبَّتي والعَيشُ مُذْ فارقْتُكمْ

قد حال عن عَهْدِ الصّفاء حُؤولا

My loved ones, since I left you life

Has changed from the era of purity capricious.

كانت غَمامةُ شَمْلِنا مَجْنوبةً

زمَناً فعادَ سَحابُه مَشْمولا

The cloud of our unity was swept away,

For a time so its clouds came back comprehensive.

وأضافَنا الدَّهْرُ البخيلُ بقُربِكمْ

فرأى قليلَ ثَوائنا مَمْلولا

And the mean fate added us in your nearness,

So it saw our intimate moments plentiful.

لا أَدَّعي جَوْرَ الزّمانِ ولا أَرى

لَيْلي يَزيدُ على اللّيالي طُولا

I do not claim the injustice of time, nor do I see

My night exceeding nights in length.

لكنّ مِرآةَ الصّباح تَنفُّسي

لِلهمِّ أصدأَ وَجْهَها المَصْقولا

But the mirror of dawn my breath,

For worries rusted its polished face.

حتّى اكتحَلْتُ بنُورِ غرّةِ قادمِ

عَزَمتْ به عنّي الهمومُ رحيلا

Until I lined my eyes with the light of a new

Resolve, with it worries left me.

رُكْنٌ لدينِ اللهِ يأبَى عِزُّه

أن يستطيعَ له العِدا تَزْييلا

A pillar of God's religion, its honor refuses

To be diminished by enemies a whit.

سائلْ مَعاهِدَ أصفهانَ أما اسْتفَتْ

ولقد رأتْ باليُمْنِ منه قُفولا

Ask the covenant of Isfahan, has it consulted?

And it has seen goodness from it turning back.

كاللّيثِ فارقَ لاقْتناصٍ غِيلَهُ

ثمّ انثنَى جَذِلاً يَحُلُّ الغِيلا

Like a lion leaving its prey to pounce,

Then it turned declining dragging the prey.

ظُفْرٌ له ظَفَرٌ ونابٌ ما نَبا

حتّى أعادَ عَدُوَّه مَأكولا

Victory for it, a victory whereby it growled

Until it returned its enemy as food.

تاللهِ لو قَدرتْ غداةَ قُدومِه

طَرباً تلَقّتْه المَنابِرُ مِيلا

By God, if it could the morning of its arrival

The pulpits would have come out excited swaying.

وغداً ستُورِقُ تَحته أعوادُها

حتّى تُظَلِّلَ صَحْبَه تَظْليلا

And tomorrow under it their poles will verdant

Until they shade its companions with shade.

فرَشوا بديباجِ الخُدودِ طَريقَه

حُبّاً غدا لِمَصونِهنَّ مُذِيلا

So pave with the brocade of your cheeks its path,

For love, it will trail their protectedness tomorrow.

ولوِ استُطيعَ لكان سَرْجُ حِصانِه

عِزّاً على حَدَقِ الورَى مَحْمولا

And if it could, the saddle of its steed would be

Glory carried on the World’s cheeks.

يَومٌ كأنّ اللهَ بَثَّ جُنودَه

للحَقِّ فيه منَ الضَّلالِ مُديلا

A day as if God disseminated its soldiers

For the truth, diverting from misguidance that day.

وتَملَّك الإعظامُ أَلسنةَ الورى

فسَماعُك التّكبيرَ والتَّهْليلا

And reverence took control of the tongues of the world,

So you hear takbeer and tahleel.

والشّمسُ من خَلَلِ الغمامِ تُري الورى

طَرْفاً وقد جَنح الأصيلُ كليلا

And the sun through the clouds shows the world

An eye, and the noble one tilted somewhat.

كمَطارِ دينارٍ نفَتْه أكُفُّهِمْ

صُعُداً فحَلّق ثُمّ جَدَّ نُزولا

Like scattered gold coins their palms tossed,

Rising so it hovered then descended light.

من بَعضِ ما نثَرتْ له أيدي الورى

حتّى حَكَى غَيْثاً عليهِ هَمولا

From some of what the hands of the world scattered for it,

Until it related a pouring rain on it.

حتّى لكادَتْ أن تُجِدَّ خِلالَها

شمسُ المغاربِ في الأكُفُ أُفولا

Until the sun of the west almost found

Among their palms its setting.

وبدا الإمامُ ابنُ الإمامِ مُبوِّئاً

ظِلاًّ بنَتْه المُقرْبَاتُ ظليلا

And the Imam son of the Imam took charge,

The noble deeds built for him a shaded shelter.

عَقَدَ الجلالُ عليه تاجَ كرامةٍ

للمُلْكِ كَلّلَه به تَكْليلا

Majesty crowned him with a crown of honor,

Crowning him for kingship with it.

تُركيُّ تاجٍ قد تَغرَّبَ للعُلا

فغدا على العَربِيِّ منه نَزيلا

A Turkish crown that immigrated to the sublime,

So it became over the Arab a guest.

لثَم العِمامةَ مُقتنِعاً به

فَخْراً وبَجّل رأسَه تَبْجيلا

Kissing the turban content with it,

Pride, and revering his head with reverence.

وكأنّما قد كانَ أَقسَم جاهداً

قسَماً فجاء كطالبٍ تَقْبيلا

As if he had sworn striving an oath,

So he came like a seeker kissing.

لِترَى ولو يَوماً عُيونُ النّاس مِن

قَمرِ العلاء نُزولَه الإكليلا

So the eyes of the people would see for a day

The descending to them of the crescent of sublimity.

فلْيَهْنِ ذا التّاجَيْنِ أنّ جَمالَه

لَهُما أفادا وَجْهَه التّجْميلا

So the two crowns are gratified that their beauty,

Granted it elegance and charm.

وأُعيرَ مَنْكِبُه قَباءً فابْتَنى

مَجْداً لأتراكِ الزّمانِ أثيلا

And his shoulder was lent a fur coat so it built

Glory for the remains of time most generous.

كالغِمدِ رُدَّ على حُسامٍ صارمٍ

ما زال مَتْنُ العِرْضِ منه صقيلا

As a scabbard returned to a sharp sword

That the essence of honor was always polished with it.

رُكْنٌ طُوالَ الدَّهْرِ كان مَصونُه

لِلّثْمِ لا عن ذِلّةٍ مَبْذولا

A pillar whose protection lasted eternally

Not offered to humiliation ever.

والبِيضُ مُغمدَةً ومُصلَتةً معاً

مَثُلَتْ له حَولَ الرِّكابِ مُثولا

And the white horses stationed and ready together,

Formed around the stirrups a standing.

وكأنّما الرُّمْحانِ لمّا ذَيَّلا

بُردَيْهما من خَلْفِه تَذْييلا

As if when the two spears trailed

His gown behind him dragging,

غُصْنا عَلاءٍ مُزْهِرٍ طَرفَاهُما

ظَمِئا فقاما يَشْكُوانِ ذُبولا

Two verdant sprigs of sublimity their edges

Thirsty so they stood complaining of dryness.

فكَسا ورُودُهما اخْضِراراً أنّه

صَحِبا غَماماً من نَداهُ هَطولا

So their blossoms were covered in green, for it

Accompanied a cloud whose rain poured.

وتَجشّمَتْ هُوجُ الرّياح عَواصِفاً

من بَعْدِ ما قِيدَتْ إليه خُيولا

And the faces of the winds wore violent storms

After they were tethered to it the horses.

من كُلِّ أَشهبَ ساطعٍ أنوارُه

كالصُّبْحِ إلاّ ناظِراً مَكْحولا

All from each brightly radiant ash-colored horse,

Its lights like the dawn except a bleary-eyed onlooker.

أو كُلِّ أدْهَمَ حالكٍ جِلْبابُه

كاللّيْلِ إلاّ غُرّةً وحُجولا

Or all from each dark-colored gloomy one, its robes

As the night except a first appearance and conversion.

لمّا امتطاهُ طارَ نَسْرُ سَمائه

يَبْغي له تحتَ النُّسورِ مَقيلا

When he mounted it, the eagle of his sky soared,

Seeking under the eagles for it a resting place.

أقسَمْتُ ما لُوِيَ الحديد به ولا

جَعلوا لرِجْلِ جَوادِه تَنْعيلا

I swear neither were its iron shoes bent,

Nor did they make for its steed’s foot horseshoes.

لكنّما ذاك الهلالُ وقد سَما

يُهْدي لحافرِ طِرْفِه تَقْبيلا

Rather that crescent has ascended bestowing

A kiss to the edge of its foot.

للهِ يَومُ مَسَرّةٍ طَردَ الأسَى

وأنال كُلَّ فؤادِ حُرٍّ سُولا

For God, a day of joy dispelling sorrow

And every free heart attained what it sought!

خلَعوا على البُشَراء ما لَبِسَ الورَى

حتّى النّهارُ مُلاءهُ المَسْدولا

They took off for good news what the creation wore

Until the daytime of its welfare overflowed.

كُلٌّ أراد خُروجَه من لُبْسِه

لمّا رأى بالسّعْدِ منه دُخولا

All wanted to take off their clothes

When they saw happiness enter it.

وحكى شَقيقُ الرَّوضِ لابسَ أحمَرٍ

قد قامَ للأذْيالِ منه مُشيلا

And the neighbor of the garden wearing red told

That he got up for its trailing hems enthusiastic.

فكأنّه لمّا أتاهُ مُبَشِّرٌ

والشّوقُ أبقَى الجِسمَ منه نَحيلا

So it was as if when it came to him a giver of good news,

And passion left his body thin,

ألقَى العِمامةَ واشْتَهى لقميصِه

خَلْعاً ولم يكُ زِرُّه مَحْلولا

He threw off the turban and desired to undress his shirt

Not finding his wrap present.

رُتَبٌ بها زيدَتْ عُلاك نَباهةً

من غيرِ أن كنتَ اشتكَيْتَ خُمولا

Conditions through it your sublimity increased

Without you having complained of inertia.

ولكَمْ مَواقِفَ للعُلا مَشْهورةٍ

قد فُصّلِتْ آياتُها تَفْصيلا

And how many renowned stops of sublimity

Whose signs were elaborated upon in detail!

ناصَيْتَ فيها السّابقينَ إلى العُلا

وملأْتَ حَدَّ اللاحقِينَ فُلولا

You gave the predecessors a lead to sublimity

And filled the utmost of the successors traces.

وأرى القَواعدَ للهُدَى وأُمورَه

والدّهرُ يتْبَعُ بالفروعِ أُصولا

And I see the foundations of guidance and its matters,

And time follows with the secondary the origins.

عادتْ بإسماعيلَ سُنّةُ رَفْعِها

نَسَقاً كما بَدأَتْ بإسْماعيلا

The way of its lifting returned with Ismail

A consistent sequence just as it began with Ismail.

إن لم تكنْ فيها رَسولاً مِثلَه

فَكفِعْلِه لأبيكَ كنتَ رسولا

If there is not in it a messenger like him,

By his father's action you were a messenger.

كُلٌّ قَسيمُ أَبيهِ في تَشْيِيدِه

وتَرى الأمورَ إذا نظَرْتَ شُكولا

Each partner of his father in his inauguration,

And you see matters if you look at them entangled.

شَيّدْتُما المَعْنَى كما قد شَيّدَ ال

مَبْنَى وبالأُخرى ذَكرْنا الأُولى

You both constructed meaning just as He constructed

An edifice, and with the other we mentioned the first.

يا ابنَ الّذي آتاكَ زُهْرَ خِلالِه

رَبُّ السَّما ثُمَّ اصطفاهُ خَليلا

O son of the one who gave you the blossoms of his perfection,

Then chose him as a friend, Lord of the sky.

فكفاكَ فَخْراً أن تُسَمِّيَه أباً

وكفاهُ فَخْراً أن تُعَدَّ سَليلا

So it suffices you pride to name him father,

And it suffices him pride to be named an offspring.

ولقد نشَرْتَ العلمَ نَشْراً في الوَرى

في الأرضِ حتّى لم تُخَلِّ جَهُولا

And you spread knowledge spreading in the world,

On earth until you did not leave a place unknown.

فَبقِيتَ للإسلام يا شَرفاً له

حتّى تكونَ لنَقْصِهمْ تَكْميلا

So you remained for Islam, O honor to it,

Until you complete what they lack.

تَسْبي شَمائلُك الرِّقاقُ عقولَنا

ومنَ الشّمائلِ ما يُخالُ شَمولا

Your noble character captures our minds,

And from character what resembles encompassing.

يا ابْنَ الكرامِ وطالما انتصحَ الورَى

في حادثٍ مَن كان أقومَ قِيلا

O son of nobility, and how often the world sobered

In an event, who was more upright they said?

أَمُعيرُ قَولي أنت سَمْعَك ساعةً

كَرماً فاذكُرْ إن رأَيْتَ فُضولا

Is my saying overburdening your hearing one time

Generously? So remember if you see excess.

والنُّصْحُ قُرْطٌ ربّما يَجِدُ الفتَى

في السّمْعِ مَحْمَلَه البَهِيَّ ثَقيلا

Advice is a pendant that the young man sometimes finds

In hearing its burden momentous.

وسِواكَ منهمْ إن عَنَيتُ بِمْقولي

فعلَى استِماعِك أجعَلُ التَّعْويلا

And apart from them if I am concerned in my saying,

Then in your listening I place dependence.

وإذا نظَرْتَ وأنت عارِفُ عِلّةٍ

لم تَعْيَ عن أن تَعرِفَ المَعلولا

And if you look while knowing a reason,

You would not be ignorant in recognizing the inferred.

ما للفريقَيْنِ اسْتجازا فُرْقةً

من بَعْدِ حَبْلٍ لم يَزلْ مَوْصولا

What made the two parties legitimize a division

After a rope that was not cut?

كانا معاً في وَجْهِ دينِ مُحمّدٍ

والدّهرُ يُصبِحُ للعُهودِ مُحيلا

They were together in the way of Muhammad’s religion,

And time makes mornings into evenings fickle.

كالمُقلتَيْنِ مع السّلامةِ لا تَرى ال

يُمنَى على اليُسرَى لها تَفْضيلا

Like two halves that you do not see this

Right preferred over that left for it.

فسعَى وُشاةٌ لا سَعوْا ما بينَهمْ

بالبَغْيِ حتّى بدَّلوا تَبْديلا

So slanderers roamed between them

With dissent until they altered and exchanged.

أتُهادِنُ الأعداءَ تَطلُبُ سِلْمَهُمْ

خَطْباً لعَمرُك لو عَلِمتَ جليلا

You make peace with enemies, seeking their safety

Strangely, while the supporters of guidance mornings became

عجَباً وأنصارُ الهُدَى قد أصبَحوا

كُلٌّ لِكلٍّ مُوسِعٌ تَخْذيلا

Each to each one providing disappointment?

And time in it - did not your insight encompass -

والدَّهرُ فيه ولا دَهَتْك عَجائبٌ

تتَضمَّنُ المَحْذورَ والمَأْمولا

Wonders that include the feared and hoped?

It is an opportunity for you from your time presented,

هي فُرصةٌ لك من زمانِك أَعرضَتْ

فانْهَضْ قَؤولاً للجميلِ فَعولا

So arise determining the beautiful deeds.

And restore the system of both sides as appeared

وأعِدْ نظامَ الجانبَيْنِ كما بَدا

يَغْشَ الجميعُ جَنابَك المأْهولا

To include all those your respected side.

And if you attacked with their assembly so they become

وإذا هجَمْتَ بجَمْعِهمْ كي يُصبِحوا

سَيْفاً على هامِ العِدا مَسلولا

A sword over the neck of enemies unsheathed,

Then in that ask Muhammad in his grave,

فاسأَلْ بذاك مُحمّداً في قَبرِه

فكفَى به عن دينِه مَسْؤولا

For it suffices about his religion to question.

It will inform you that you delighted his eye

يُخْبِرْك أنّك قد أقرَّ بعَيْنِه

ما قد عزَمتَ ويَسألُ التّعْجيلا

With what you intended, and asks for hastening.

The reconciliation of hearts for the likes of them

تأليفُ ما بَيْنَ القلوبِ لمثْلِهمْ

من بعدِ أن يَعِدَ الهوانُ جَزيلا

After humiliation promises abundant,

Is a glory if your era dawns with it anew

فخْرٌ إذا أضحَى لعَصْرِك غُرّةً

كان المَفاخِرُ كُلُّها تَحْجيلا

For all glories would be annulled.

And you are more guided in matters to what

ولأنتَ أهدَى في الأمور إلى الّتي

تُرضي ولستَ على العُلا مَدْلولا

Satisfies, and you are not dictated over the sublime.

O you who counts God provisions for himself,

يا مَن يَعُدُّ اللهَ عُدّةَ نفْسِه

فإليه يَجعلُ أمْرَه مَوْكولا

So to Him entrusts his matter.

You still have from Him in the shades of care

لا زلتَ منه في ظلالِ عنايةٍ

حتّى تكونَ بما تشاءُ كَفيلا

Until you guarantee what you will.

And to you from my good words delicacies

وإليك من كَلِمي الحسانِ بدائعاً

كالدُّرِّ فُصِّلَ نَظْمُه تَفْصيلا

Like pearls, its stringing elaborated in detail.

You will see my poetry constantly circuiting

ستَرى طَوافي حَولَ بَيتِك دائماً

إن كان حَجُّ مدائحي مَقْبولا

Around your house, if my ode's pilgrimage is accepted.