يا آلَ جعفرٍ الفَيَّاض جُودُكُمُ

لو أنْصَفَ الدَّهر لم ينْقُصْ لكُم عَدَدُ

O House of generous Jafar

If time were just your numbers would not diminish

فيكُمْ على قَسْوَةِ الأيَّامِ مَرْحمَةٌ

ومنْكُمُ يُسْتَفادُ الصَّبْرُ والجَلَدُ

In you there is mercy against the harshness of days

And from you patience and fortitude are obtained

فما بَرِحْتُمْ وريحُ الخَطْبِ عاصِفَةٌ

طَوْداً صَعوداً نَداه مُثْعِبٌ صَعَدُ

You have not ceased, while the wind of events blows stormily

A towering mountain, its rising summit climbing upward

تَلينُ للّهِ والإِخْوانِ فيهِ ولِلْ

عافي ويَخْشى سُطاكَ السَّيْفُ والأسَدُ

Bending to God and the brethren therein and to the

Healthy, whom the sword and lion fear

واعْلَمْ وأنتَ عَليمٌ أنَّها عَرَضٌ

وما عَنِ اللّهِ رَبِّ العَرْشِ مُلْتَحَدُ

And know, while you are knowing, that it is an attribute

And not from Allah, Lord of the Throne, newly originated

فما وجَدْتَ لِخَطْبٍ جَلَّ مِنْ ألَمٍ

إلاَّ وعنْديَ أضْعافُ الذي تَجِدُ

So I have not found any grave calamity with more pain

Than that which you find, of which I have multiples