بدر أَضاءَ وَبَرق بِالعَقيق سَرى

فسال طرفك مِن فرط الهَوى وَجَرى

The full moon shone and lightning flashed in 'Aqeeq,

Your eyes overflowed with intense love.

ذكرت وَالشوق قَد هاجَت بَلابله

أَرض الغري وَنوراً في الغري وَرى

I remembered you, and longing stirred within me,

I saw a land illuminated, and light spreading through the land.

وَشمت بَرقاً حَكى عَن أَرض كاظمة

حَديث وَجد وَعَنها قَد رَوى خَبرا

I sensed lightning relating news of a silent land -

A conversation of passion, telling a tale about it.

ما بال قَلبك يصغي كُلما ذكرت

دار الحَبيب وَيَصبو كُلما ذكرا

Why does your heart listen whenever the abode of the beloved is mentioned?

And melt whenever it is recalled?

ذاقَ الغَرام فَلا يَنفك ذا شجن

إِلى الوِصال وَمَن ذاقَ الغَرام دَرى

One who has tasted love cannot be released from yearning

For union - and one who has tasted love knows.

لِلّه دار بِها ريح القبول سَرى

وَطيبها وَشَذاها في الوَرى عطرا

God has a house in which the breeze of acceptance blows,

Its scent and aroma a fragrance in the world.

قَد صَعد النور في أَرجائِها وَعَلا

وَصيب الجود فيها صار مُنحدرا

Light has risen in its corners and mounted high,

The downpour of generosity in it cascading down.

فَما الجُمان إِذا حصباؤها انتَثَرَت

فَحقق الأَمر في حَصبائِها لترى

So how can clouds, when their hail disperses,

Verify the matter in their hail, for you to see?

وَما العبير إِذا ما ريحها حملت

مِن عطرها حين إِذ مرت بِهِ سحرا

And how can perfume, when its breeze carries

Its fragrance, when it passes by at dawn?

تَلألأت وَأَضاءَت كَالزجاجة إِذ

مصباحها الفَرد في مشكاتها ظَهَرا

It shone and illuminated like a glass lamp

When its solitary light appeared clearly in its niche.

لَيتَ الهياج يرد الشوس شاردة

وَيحطم الصيد بِالخطار إِن خطرا

I wish passion would return the wandering lightning,

And shatter the prey with its sparks, if they flash.

يَسطو بأبيض في إفرنده شعل

يَذوب مِن حرها عِندَ الوقاع حرا

With a white flame in its stove it would seize

And melt from its heat when hitting the valleys.

أَضحت قُلوب الأَعادي غمده وَغدَت

أَكبادهم يَوم بَدر وَالقليب قرى

The hearts of enemies have become its sheaths, and their

Livers on the day of Badr and Qalib became cisterns.

وَكَم سقى مِنهُ عمراً شربة ملئت

لَما أَلَم عَلى راووقها سكرا

And how many long lives it gave to drink a draft

That intoxicated when it touched their skulls.

وَفي قريظة إِذا كانوا ثَمانية

مِن المِئات عَلا لباتهم وَفَرى

And at Quraydhah, when they were only eight

Hundred, it attacked their encampment and fled.

وَنَحو مرحب ذي الحصن المَنيع وَذي ال

عَزم الأَبي بِماضي حده نحرا

And towards Marhab of the impenetrable fortress, and he of

Resolute determination, whose limit was to slay.

ذوو الثدية في جَمع الخَوراج قَد

أَباد إِذ دَمهم في النهروان جَرى

The well-chested, among the mass of Kharijites

It destroyed when their blood flowed in Nahrawan.

وَكَم كماة غدوا جزراً لمرهفه

وَجحفل مثل موج أَليم قَد كسرا

And how many clusters they became, due to its blade,

And multitudes, like violent waves it shattered.

مؤيد ظاهر الدين القَويم وَلَم

يَزل لحزب رسول اللَه مُنتَصِرا

Its supporter was the rightly-guided Al-Mu'ayyad Al-Din,

Who never ceased to give victory to the party of God's Messenger.

مِن آل خندف ميمون الجبين وَمن

عَلى أنوف جيوش الشرك قَد ظهرا

From the family of Khandaf, auspicious of forehead, and he who

Appeared over the noses of the pagan armies.

أَبو تراب أَمير المُؤمنين وَمَن

بفضله سادت السادات وَالأَمرا

Father of Dust, Commander of the Faithful, and he by

Whose merit the masters of masters ruled.

زوج البتول نقي الأَصل قَد سعدت

بفيض راحته العافون وَالفقرا

Husband of the maiden, pure of origin - she was blessed

By the overflowing of his spirit of chastity and poverty.

بحر العُلوم عباب الفَضل معدنه

يروي وَيصدر مِنهُ كُلما زخرا

Ocean of knowledge, its spring of virtue, mine of

Wisdom - he narrates and flows from him whenever fresh.

أَخو الرَسول وَزير لست أنكره

وَبِالأَقارب حَقاً تسعد الوزرا

Brother of the Messenger and minister - I do not deny him,

And ties of kinship rightly bring joy to ministry.

سَعت عَلى فلك الأَفلاك رتبته

وَفضله ملأ الدُنيا بِغَير مرا

His rank encompassed the celestial spheres,

And his superiority filled the world without pride.

السيد القرم مقدام الجيوش إِذا

حمي الوطيس وَشب الحَرب وَاستعرا

Master of the army, bold in battle, when

The conflict grew heated and war flared up.

لَيث العَرين وَسَيف السابقين إِلى

نار الهياج ليردي كُل من كَفرا

Lion of the den and sword of the early Muslims, to

The fire of passions, to fell all disbelievers.

حبر حَكيم كَأَن اللَه صوره

لطفاً وَأنشأه مِن فَضله وَبرا

Wise scholar, as if God molded him

With kindness, and originated him from His bounty.

أَو كانَ نوراً خَفياً ثُم أَظهره

حَتّى تشكل في أَوج العُلى قَمَرا

Or he was hidden light, then made manifest,

Until he formed, at the zenith of highness, a moon.

يا أَول الناس إِسلاماً وَأَعرقهم

أَصلاً وَأَطيبهم فرعا إِذا نشرا

O foremost of people in Islam, of purest

Origin, and most fragrant branch when it blossoms.

قَد جاءَ في النَص وَالتَنزيل مدحكم

يتلى عَلَينا إِذا قاري الكِتاب قَرا

There has come in the definitive verse your praise -

Recited to us when the reciter of the Book reads.

تُؤتوا الزكاة وَأَنتُم راكِعون فَمن

رامَ اللحوق بسامي مجدكم حصرا

"Take charity while bowing," so one who hopes

To attain your towering glory restricts himself.

اللَهُ طهركم مِن كُلِّ فاحشة

وَأذهب الرجس عَنكُم أَينما حضرا

"God has purified you from all filth,

And cleansed you of defilement, wherever you were."

طالَ اشتياقي إِلى قَبر حللت بِه

إِذا ضم بَحراً مِن العرفان قَد زخرا

Prolonged has been my yearning for the grave in which you settled,

When it contained an ocean overflowing with mystical knowledge.

أعلل القَلب من شهر إلى سنة

إِذا أَتى رجب وَأعدته صفرا

My heart has become ill from Shawwal to Sha'ban,

Whenever Rajab comes and I prepare for Safar.

وَكُلَما قمت دَهري عَنكَ يقعدني

وَإِن أَردت مسيراً قامَ معتَذِرا

And whenever I stand from your visit, worldly matters seat me,

And if I want to journey, excuses detain me.

لا در درك يا هَذا الزَمان فَقَد

أَخرتني وَدَليل المدلجين سَرى

You have no insight, O times! For you have

Delayed me, though the guide of the guided traveled.

ماذا عَلى مَن أَتى في العوج منقطِعا

لَكنهُ بِالَّذي يَهواه قَد ظفرا

What of one who came crookedly, severed?

But he has attained what he loved, so he won.

ها قَد أَتيتك غب القَوم منكسرا

وَمَن أَتاكُم كَسيراً رَد منجبرا

And one who comes to you humiliated, you return dignified.

I have abandoned my people, homeland, and dwelling places,

هَجَرت قَومي وَأَوطاني وَمُنتَجعي

وَمَن يَروم المَعالي وَالعُلى صَبرا

And one who aspires to the sublime and lofty is patient.

And I came to Baghdad, O Son of the North, from Mudar,

وَجئت بابل يا ابن الشم من مضر

وَمَن أَرادَ نَوالاً فَليجئ مضرا

For one who wants grace should come to Mudar.

I pitched my tent, hopes, and what my soul sought,

حَططت رحلي وَآمالي وَما طَلبت

نَفسي وَما جالَ في ذكري وَما خطرا

What came to my mind, what occurred to me, and what I imagined.

And I stood in the radiant court, supplicating,

وَقُمت في الحَضرة الفَيحاء مُبتَهِلاً

وَصرت مِن نورِها الوَضاح مُنبَهِرا

And became, through its evident light, dazzled.

So by God's spirit, a grave from you I have not recited

فَروح اللَه قَبراً مِنكَ ما تليت

آيات حَق وَما تال تَلا وَقرا

Verses of truth, nor read a reading, and intoned.