ولمَّا أَتيْنا أرضَ حِيشٍ وعندَنا

غَرامٌ لعَمٍّ عمَّ فينا نوَالُهُ

When we came to the land of Hiash, with yearning

For an uncle whose affection encompassed us,

رأَيْنا له قبراً به البَرقُ قد ثَوى

فلاحَ لنا من كامِنِ البرقِ حَالُهُ

We saw his grave, wherein lightning lay resting,

So clear was the gleam of the lightning that sheltered his tomb.

ضَريحٌ هو الغِمْدُ الكَريمُ حَقيقَةً

وصاحِبُهُ العَصْبُ الصَّقيلُ نِصَالُهُ

A shrine it is, a generous scabbard in truth,

Its lord a polished blade, keen its steel.

فأَينَ العُيونُ المُبْصِراتُ لشأنهِ

وقد لاحَ في تلكَ الرَّوابي جَمالُهُ

Where are the seeing eyes, to discern his worth,

When in those hills his beauty shone revealed?

يَفيضُ النَّدى سَحًّا للاثِمِ بابِهِ

ويبرُزُ طُوْراً للقُفولِ خَيَالُهُ

Dew flows copiously, saturating the sinner's gate,

And his apparition emerges, to greet the returning throng.

وما قبرُهُ إِلاَّ كبُرجٍ مؤَنَّقٍ

تلأْلأَ منه للعُيونِ هِلالُهُ

His tomb but a lofty dome, from which

His crescent shines for eyes to behold.

قصدْنا رِفاعِيَّ الرِّجالِ بمشْرِقٍ

وقامَ لنا في حِيشَ عنهُ مِثَالُهُ

We sought refuge with Riayah's great men, in the east,

And in Hiash an image of him stood before us.

فلا بأْسَ إنْ رُدَّتْ قُفولُ عِبادَةٍ

وشُدَّ لحِيشٍ من فَتاها رِحَالُهُ

No harm that the caravan of those who worship

Should return to Hiash, and pitch their tents.

لئنْ غابَ تلكَ العينُ ذا أَثرٌ لها

وإنْ شطَّ ذاكَ الحيُّ هذا ظِلالُهُ

Though those eyes are absent, their trace remains,

And though the living one is gone, his shade endures.

فقلْ لصُنوفِ العاجِزينَ عن السُّرى

لشيخِ البُطَيْحا لا عَداكُمْ وِصَالُهُ

Say to those, powerless to attain the heights -

But for you, no other can claim closeness to the Shaykh of Butayha.

عليٌّ خُزامِيُّ الشَذا نورُ عينِهِ

حِبالُ مَعانيهِ الطِّوالُ حِبَالُهُ

Ali, the sun of insightful minds, the light of his eye,

The lofty themes of his speech, the ropes of his discourse.

ففي رُحْبِ حيشٍ نسجُ معنى جَمالِهِ

وفي رُحْبِ مِتْكينَ المَعَلَّى جَلالُهُ

In the expanse of Hiash we relate the tale of his beauty,

In the precincts of Muthayyab, the sublime speaks his glory.

إليكَ أيا عمَّاهُ منِّي هدِيَّةً

مَقالَ مُحِبٍّ لا يُضاعُ مَقَالُهُ

To you, uncle, I present as a gift

The words of an ardent lover - his speech is no vain prattle.

ألا يا ابنَ بُرْهانَ الصُّدورِ وشيخِهِمْ

ويا قُطْبَ حالِ لا تسامى فِعَالُهُ

O son of perceptive hearts and their sheikh!

O axis whose deeds no apex can transcend!

أَبوكُمْ أَبو العَبَّاسِ والطَّوْرُ واحِدٌ

فأنتم مَعانيهِ وأَنتم رِجَالُهُ

Your father - Abu'l-Abbas - and the Mount are one,

You are his truths, you are his men.

تسَلْسَلَ فيكُمْ إرْثُ بيتِ طَريقِهِ

وأُسْبِغَ فيكُمْ نسجَ طينٍ كَمَالُهُ

In you flows the inheritance of his spiritual path,

In you the perfection of his clay was molded.

كأنِّي أَرى هذا الضَّريحَ وحولَهُ

جِبالٌ أَجلْ أَهلُ القُلُوبِ جِبَالُهُ

As though I see this tomb, ringed about

By mountains - indeed, the stoutest of heart are his mountains.

نُزاحِمُ فيه الرَّاجِعينَ قَوافِلٌ

تجيءُ ويَروي الكُلَّ فضلاً زُلالُهُ

Caravans converge upon it, returning,

Each drinking their fill of his copious bounty.

وتُضربُ أَكْبادُ النِّياقِ لبابِهِ

وتُجهدُ في المَسرى إليه جِمَالُهُ

The hearts of beasts of burden ache at his door,

Exhausted in their effort to reach him.

وما ردَّ يوماً صِفْرَ كفِّ نَزيلِهِ

ولا صارَ مبْتوتَ المُرادِ مآلُهُ

Never has he turned away empty-handed one who sought him,

Nor one despairing of attaining his hopes.

وأنتَ حَبيبُ المُصْطَفى وابنُ بنتِهِ

فما خابَ من تُشكى لعَلْياكَ حَالُهُ

Beloved of the Chosen One, son of his daughter,

None who implored you were left bereft.

تجَلْجَلْتَ في طيَّ الوَلايَةِ سيِّداً

أُفيضَ عَلَيْهِ من علِيٍّ دَلالُهُ

You held sway, a master, in the caliphate’s robe,

With the guidance Ali bestowed upon you as your inspiration.

كأنَّكَ زينُ العابِدينَ بطَوْرِهِ

ولا بِدْعَ أنتم آلَ أحمدَ آلُهُ

You are the adornment of the pinnacle, like Zayn al-Abidin in his sanctum,

You hail from Ahmad’s progeny, no doubt.

فقدْ وُشِّحتْ فيكُمْ قَديماً خِصَالُهُ

وقدْ رُصِّعَتْ بالطَّورِ منكُمْ خِلالُهُ

In you, of old, were melded his qualities,

And you were adorned with his traits at the Mount.

يُعاتِبُني مَن أَمَّ حِيشاً لعَمِّنا

إذا ضاعَ ما بينَ الرِّجالِ عِقَالُهُ

Rebuked am I by one who reside in Hiash, for our uncle -

When the ties binding men are severed, grievous is their loss.

فأكرِمْ به عمًّا أَبو المجدِ عمُّهُ

ومن آلِ سيفِ اللهِ خالِدَ خَالُهُ

So honor, for his uncle’s sake, Abu'l-Majd, his uncle,

And of Saifullah Khalid’s kin, his maternal uncle.

هِزَبْرٌ طَويلُ الباعِ قطبٌ مؤيَّدٌ

قدِ اخْتارَهُ الرَّحمنُ جلَّ جَلالُهُ

Hizbar, tall in stature, a firmly established pole

Whom the Most Merciful chose - sublime is His majesty.