أغائرٌ دمعك أم منجدُ
قد رحلَ الصبرُ ولا منجدُ
Your tearful eyes, are they dew or lightning?
Patience has departed, and there is no rescue
يا رابط الأحشاء في راحةٍ
قد نضجت بالجمر ما تقصد
O you who binds my heart with ease
The embers have ripened what you intend
لا تلتمسْ قلبك في جذوةٍ
ما بقيتْ منكَ عليها يد
Do not seek your heart amid the coals
What remains of you has no grasp upon it
أخلت يبقى لك قلبٌ على
فاغرة الوجد ولا يفقد
Had you but left a heart within me
Empty of love, not missing it
وإنَّ قلباً بين أنيابها
طاحَ شظاياً كيف لا يزرد
A heart between her fangs
Fell to pieces, how could it not shrivel?
حسبك منها زفرةً لو غدتْ
في جلدٍ منها نزا الجلد
It is enough that her hiss, were it to emanate
From a skin shedding its skin, would make the skin tremble
كم هزَّ أضلاعَك من فوقها
حتَّى تلاقين جوًى مكمد
How your ribs have been shaken atop her
Until they meet a dormant, extinguished fire
فساقطت منك الحشا أدمعاً
حمراً على ذوب الحشا تشهد
Thus fragments of your guts fell as tears
Red upon melting guts – you bear witness
لو تعلم الأيامُ ماذا جنت
إذاً لودَّت أنَّها تنفد
If the days but knew what they have wrought
They would wish to expire
لقد أجلَّت رزءَ خطبٍ لها
في كلِّ قلبٍ مأتماً يُعقد
She has postponed the calamity of tribulations
In every heart, a mourning ceremony is convened
إذ كوّرت شمساً بنو المصطفى
فيها ترجَّوا أُفقَهم يسعدُ
For she has eclipsed a sun, the Al-Mustafa’s sons
In whom they hoped their horizon would be joyous
الله يا دهرُ أبيناهمُ
في زهو بشرٍ للعدى تكمد
By God, o Time, you have shown them
In the blossoming of good tidings, pacified
وبينما في فرط إبهاجهم
فيها لأثواب الهنا جدَّدوا
While amidst their utmost elation
Renewing their clothes for bliss
وكلُّهم قد مدَّ عينَ الرجا
لفرقد الفخر بها يرصد
They all extended the eye of hope
To watch the rise of their pride’s full moon
إذ يردُ الناعي إليهم بأن
جاءَ ابن نعشٍ ذلك الفرقد
When the harbinger informs them
The coffin of that full moon has arrived
فيغتذي ذاك الهنا حنَّةً
فرائصُ الدنيا لها ترعد
So the bliss takes on the hue of sorrow
The treasures of life tremble for it
نعشٌ أتى يُحمل فيه الهنا
ميتاً عليه يندب السؤدد
A coffin has come, in which that bliss
Is carried dead – the professional wailers wail over it
وخلفه العلياءُ في صرخةٍ
تدعو إلى أين به يقصد
And behind it the noblemen cry out
Calling: To where does it head?
يا حاملي إنسانَ عيني قفوا
نشدتُكم بالله لا تبعدوا
O you who carry the man of my eyes, stop
I implore you by God, do not go far
دعوه لي حسبي لتجهيزه
عينٌ عليها طرفُها أرمد
Leave him to me, I have enough
To prepare him, with blinded wet eyes
دموعها الغسلُ وأكفانه ال
بياضُ والجفنُ له ملحد
Their tears are his washing, and his shroud
Is their pallor, and the eyelid his coffin
غدرتَ يا دهرُ ومنك الوفا
لا الغدرُ بالأمجاد مستبعد
You betrayed, o Time, though loyalty from you
Cannot be far-fetched for the glorious
فاذهب ذميماً إنَّها غدرةٌ
وجهك ما عشتَ بها أسود
Go away in disgrace - betrayal indeed!
Your face will never be brightened by it
ما لك بالسوء لأهل الحجى
وردتَ لا طاب لك المورد
You have no right to evil against the people of Hijj
You have returned with no fresh water
يا ناهداً بالشرِّ من جهله
تعلمُ بالشر لمن تنهد
O sighing of ignorance at him
You must know who laments to whom
وطارقاً بيتَ ندًى يلتقي
ببابه المتَّهمُ والمنجد
And rapping at the house of a dew that meets
At its door the aided and the champion
حسبك من بيتٍ عتيد القِرى
أن له في أُفق السما يحسد
It suffices you from a house whose star rises
On the horizon of the sky, envied
تخمد شهبُ الأُفق لكن به
مواقدُ النيران لا تخمد
Though the meteors of the horizon are extinguished
The fires within it are not quenched
سواه ما للمجد من مهبطٍ
وما لذمٍّ نحوه مصعد
None other than it is the orbit of glory
And the ascension of vileness to it
فمقعداه للتقى والندى
وحاجباه العزُّ والسؤدد
Its refuge is for the pious and companionable
Its eyebrows are honor and shelter
ألم تجده حرماً آمناً
يحجُّه الأبيضُ والأسودُ
Did you not find it a sanctified sanctuary
Circumambulated by the black and the white?
فكيف تسعى فيه لا محرماً
كأنَّما أنتَ به ملحد
How then do you assail it improperly
As if you were an unbeliever in it?
ما هو إلاَّ بيتُ فخرٍ له
قبيلةُ المعروف قد شيدوا
It is nothing but the house of Pride which
The tribe of Benefaction has built
بيتٌ أبو الندب الرضا ربه
أكرمُ مَن تحت السما يُقصد
A house whose lord is the Pleased, his Lord
The Most Benevolent of those sought below the heavens
مولًى درت أهلُ العُلى أنَّه
دون الأنام العلمُ المفرد
My Master – the people of the sublime know
He is the incomparable scholar among the people
وأنَّه لولا هداه الورى
ضلَّت فلا رشدٌ ولا مرشد
And that were it not for his guidance, the people
Would stray, with no righteousness nor guide
وأنَّه لولا ندى كفّه
لم يُرَ لا رفدٌ ولا مرفد
And that were it not for the dew of his palm
Neither sustenance nor sustainer would be seen
تلقاه طلقَ الوجه من هيبةٍ
يفرق منها الأسد الملبد
You meet him with a bright face out of awe
Which makes even the raging lion cower
محببٌ من حسن أخلاقه
حتَّى إلى من مجده يحسدُ
Beloved for the beauty of his character
Even by those who envy his glory
ما سهدت من خائفٍ مقلةٌ
إلاَّ وبالأمن لها يرقد
No fearful bird nests
Except securely sleeping in safety through him
من ذا سواه قام يدعو الورى
دونكم من بحر جودي ردوا
Who other than him calls the people
Without you from the sea of my generosity, give
ومدَّ كفاً بغريب الندى
آلاؤها بين الورى تحمد
And extends a palm of rare companionability?
His favors among the people are praised
بخَّلت المزن ففي بخلها
حلائبُ المزن لها تشهد
The clouds are miserly, so in their miserliness
The rain clouds bear witness against them
تبصر في راحته أبحراً
طافحةً أمواهها العسجد
You see in his comfort seas
Overflowing, their deep waters choppy
أسرَّة تُسمى ولكنَّها
بحارُ جود بالندى تزبد
Secrets that are named, but they are in fact
Seas of generosity, foaming with dew
فهو لعمري حجةٌ في الندى
وآيةٌ في الفضل لا تجحد
He is, by my life, the authority in magnanimity
And a sign in favor that cannot be denied
قد قام لله بما بعضه
لكلِّ أمجاد الورى معقد
He has stood for God in a way that a portion of it
Would be the foundation of all the glories of the world
مكارمٌ ما لكريمِ سوى
عبد الكريم الندب فيها يد
A noble one, nothing of the generous compares
To the Most Generous of calling, through him manifest
ذاك أبو الكاظم غيثُ الندى
تربُ المعالي نجمها الأسعد
That is Abu al-Kasim, rain of liberality
Parent of glories, its luckiest star
أين بنو العلياءِ من مجده
ومجدُه ما ناله الفرقد
Where are the sons of the elite from his glory?
And his glory no rising full moon has attained
فقل لهم لا تطلبوا نهجَ مَن
لطُرقه في المجد لن تهتدوا
Say to them: Do not seek the path of those
Whose paths to glory you will never find
قفوا جميعاً حيثُ أنتم فما
لكم إلى عليائه مصعدُ
Stand, all of you, wherever you are, for you have
No ascension to his sublimenesses
هيهات أن يعلق في شأوه
إلاَّ الرضا فرع العلى الأمجد
It is inconceivable that anything lofty
Be associated with him besides the Pleased, branch of the most glorious clan
مباركُ الطلعة في يمنها
جميعُ مَن صبَّحه يسعد
Blessed is the rising in its right-hand blessing
Everyone who has saluted it at dawn is fortunate
يرى سمات الخير في ماله
بأنه خيرُ الورى تشهد
He sees the traits of good in his assets
As all bear witness that he is the best of all people
مهذّبٌ رشحه للعُلى
زعيمها الأكبرُ والسيِّد
Well-mannered, his link to the sublime
Its greatest chieftain and leader
فجاء فرداً في النهى كاملاً
يُثنى عليه الفضلُ والمحمد
Thus he came uniquely perfect
In prohibition - Favor and Praise extol him
شمسُ عُلىً هادٍ لآفاقها
بدرٌ له بدرُ السما يسجد
Sun of the sublime guiding its horizons
A full moon to which the full moon of the sky bows down
وشهبُها الزهر حسين الندى
من طاب منه في العُلى المولد
And its meteors are the blossom Husayn of liberality
The most fragrant born into the sublime
وفخر أرباب النهى المصطفى
مَن هو أزكى من نما محتد
And the Pride of the masters of righteousness, the Chosen
Who is purer than the budding sprout?
وكوكب الرشد أمينُ التقى
وكاظمُ الغيظ الفتى الأمجد
And the star of guidance, the trustee of piety
The composed represser of rage, the glorious youth
وباقرُ الفضل وروحُ العلى
عيسى فهل فخرٌ كذا يوجد
And expounder of merit and spirit of the sublime
Is there any pride to be found like this?
قومٌ هم شهبُ الفخار التي
منها بكلٍ ترجم الحسَّد
They are meteors of pride which
Have been used to interpret each
أنجمُ فضلٍ زهرتْ فاهتدى
بنورها الأقربُ والأبعد
Envy of them has been kindled
Stars of merit that have blossomed, by their light
حتَّى لقد قال جميع الورى
هذا لعمري الشرف المتلد
Those near and far have been guided
To the extent that all the world has said:
يا أسرةَ المعروف لا نابكم
من بعد هذا الرزء ما يكمد
By my life this is solid honor
O family of benefaction – you have no substitute
وهذه النكبة مع إنها
فيها ثوابُ الصبر لا ينفد
After this disaster, which though
Within it is the reward of patience without end
لا يحمد الصبر على مثلها
لكنَّه من مثلكم يُحمد
Patience over it is not praiseworthy
Rather from the like of you it is praised
وإنَّ من عنكم طواه الردى
في جنَّة الخلد له مقعد
He who is spared your loss by fate
In the Garden of Eternity has a seat
قرَّ بها الطرفُ وطرف العلى
شوقاً إلى مرآه لا يرقد
Brought close by an eye and eye of the sublime
Yearning for its sight, never sleeping
ودمعُ عين المجد مذ أرخوا
المهدي فيها غاب لا يجمد
And since they buried Al-Mahdi therein
The tear of the eye of glory has vanished, unfreezing
فعيشه في ظلِّ فردوسها
تالله أرخ لهَوَ الأرغد
For his living in the shade of its Paradise
Is, by God, most pleasant repose
