رجاؤكَ في نيلِ السعادةِ بابُ

وما دونَ من يَبْغِى نَداك حِجابُ

Your hope for attaining happiness is a door,

And none below who seek your friendship have a veil.

إذا أملٌ ناجاك وهْما ففَوْزُه

بجملةِ ما يرجوه منك جَواب

If a hopeful thought whispers to you, its triumph

Is to obtain from you the entirety of what it desires in response.

يَمينُك للعافِين بحرٌ وجَنَّة

لها ثَمرٌ لا ينقِضي وعُباب

Your right hand is for the prosperous an ocean and paradise,

Bearing fruit that never exhausts and clouds that pour.

رَعَى بك فَضْلُ الأفضلِ الملكِ الوَرَى

فنائِلُه غيثٌ وأنت سحاب

With you the excellence of the Most Excellent King is shepherded,

So its obtainer is rain and you are the clouds.

هو البحرُ والأنهار والنِّيل والحَيا

وسائر أَملاكِ الأَنامِ سَراب

He is the sea, the rivers, the Nile and life,

And the rest of mankind's possessions are a mirage.

أَحَّلك من إجلاله في مَحلَّة

لهاَ زُحَلٌ والنَّيِّرات تُراب

From his veneration he has placed you in an exalted position,

It has Saturn, and the stars are but dust.

فيا نعمةَ اللهِ التي عَمَّت الوَرَى

فإنعامُها لم يُغْنِ عنه مَناب

O God's blessing that has spread through the world,

His beneficence did not suffice to provide an alternative.

لِعَبْدِك في ميسورِ فضِلك حاجةٌ

نَتيجتُها منه ثَناً وَثَواب

Your servant has some needs within your abundant favor,

The fruits of which for him are praise and reward.

وقد حثَّني في قَصْدِكَ الْحَزْمُ والحِجَا

ومَنْ رأيُه فيما يُشِيرُ صَواب

Vigor and zeal have urged me to seek you,

And he whose view indicates what is right.

فحَسْبُ الليالي ما لها فيَّ مَطْمعٌ

فقد ضَمَّني للقائِدَين جَناب

The extent of my ambition for the nights

Is that the two dear ones have included me in their company.

وأنزلتُ حاجاتي بفضلِ بني أبي ال

شجاعِ فهم لي ملجأ ومَآب

And I have entrusted my needs through the favor of the children of Abu Al-

Shujaa', for they are my refuge and destination.

فقد أَنْجَحَ اللهُ المَساعي ببابِهم

وأَتْعب قوما جانبوه فخابوا

Indeed God has made successful the efforts at their door,

And a people turned away from it, so they failed.

مَسارح جودٍ للأماني خصيبَةٌ

مَواردُ فضلٍ للعُفاةِ عِذاب

Fields of generosity for hopes are fertile,

Sources of favor for the destitute are torment.

إليك الْتَجا مَنْ ضامَه الدهرُ واعتدتْ

عليه خُطوب لا تُطاق صِعاب

He turns to you who has been wronged by fate, and

Insurmountable tribulations have oppressed him.

وكم حائن أَوْدَى به ضَنْك عيشِه

وللدهرِ فيه مِخْلَبان وناب

And how often ruinous adversity has destroyed a person,

And fate has claws and fangs against him.

فنادى أبا عبد الإله على النَّوَى

فنَفَّس ذاك الخطبَ منه خِطاب

So he called upon Abu Abdillah in distress,

And that dispelled those tribulations from him.

وقد بشرَتْني بالنجاح دَلائلٌ

وظَنٌّ صَفا سِرّا فليس يُشاب

And good omens have given me the glad tidings of success,

An unadulterated assumption, a secret that cannot be faulted.

فجاهُك موقوف لمن يَسْتَميحَه

وذلك عُرْفٌ لا يُخِلُّ ودَاب

So may your favor attend to whoever seeks it humbly,

For that is a custom that does not fail or pass away.

فعِشْ في حياةِ الأفضل المنعش الوَرَى

بغامرِ فضلٍ يُرْتَجَى ويُهاب

Then live in the life of the Most Gracious, who revives the world

With abundant favor that is hoped for and revered.