قُم ناشد الإِسلامَ عن مُصابه

أُصيب بالنبيّ أم كتابه

Arise and ask Islam about its affliction,

Was the Prophet afflicted or his book?

أم أنَّ ركب الموت عنه قد سرى

بالرُّوح محمولاً على ركابه

Or did the convoy of death depart from him,

Carried by the soul upon its mounts?

بل قضى نفسُ النبيّ المرتضى

وأُدرج الليلة في أثوابه

Nay, the soul of the chosen Prophet expired,

And he was shrouded this night in his robes.

مضى على اهتضامه بغُصَّة

غصَّ بها الدهرُ مدى أحقابه

He passed away choking on anguish,

The ages choked on his anguish throughout its eras.

عاش غريباً بينها وقد قضى

بسيف أشقاها على اعترابه

He lived a stranger amongst them and had passed away,

By the sword that severed them for their unruliness.

لقد أراقوا ليلة القدر دماً

دماؤُها انصببن بانصبابه

They had spilled the blood on the night of Al-Qadr,

Its blood spilled with its outpouring.

تنزَّلُ الرّوح فوافى روحَه

صاعدةً شوقاً إلى ثوابه

The soul descended and met his soul,

Ascending in yearning towards its reward.

فضجَّ والأملاك فيها ضجَّةً

منها اقشعرَّ الكونُ في إهابه

So the angels clamored with clamor therein,

The universe shuddered in its dread.

وانقلب السلامُ للفجر بها

للحشر إعوالاً على مُصابه

And peace turned to the dawn through it,

Yearning over its affliction.

الله نفسُ أحمدٍ من قد غدا

من نفس كلِّ مؤمنٍ أولى به

Allah's soul was more worthy of the soul of Ahmad,

Than the soul of each believer or non-believer.

غادرهُ ابنُ ملجمٍ ووجههُ

مُخضَّبٌ بالدم في محرابه

Ibn Muljam - may his face be covered in blood,

Assassinated him while he was in his shrine.

وجهٌ لوجه الله كم عفَّره

في مسجدٍ كان أبا ترابِه

A face - may Allah disfigure it,

In a masjid that was built from its soil.

فاغبرَّ وجه الدين لاصفراره

وخُضِّب الإيمان لاختضابه

So the face of the faith turned yellow due to grief,

And the faith was dyed red from its wounds.

ويزعمُون حيثُ طلوا دمهُ

في صومهم قد زيد في ثوابه

And they claim - wherever they sought his blood -

That their fasts have increased in reward.

والصومُ يدعو كلَّ عامٍ صارخاً

قد نضحوا دَمي على ثيابه

Yet the fast calls out every year crying,

"They spilled my blood on their clothes!"

إطاعةٌ قتلُهم مَن لم يكن

تُقبلُ طاعاتُ الورى إلاَّ به

Obedience that killed those who would not have had,

The obedience of mortals accepted except through him.

قتلتُم الصلاة في محرابها

يا قاتليه وهو في محرابه

You killed the prayer in its sanctuary,

O you who killed him while he was in his shrine.

وشقَّ رأس العدل سفُ جوركم

مُذ شقَّ منه الرأس في ذبابه

And the head of justice was split by your tyranny,

Ever since you split his head during his prayers.

فليبك جبريلُ له ولينتحب

في الملأ الأعلى على مُصابه

So let Jibril weep for him and lament,

In the highest assembly over his affliction.

نعم بكى والغيثُ من بُكائه

ينحبُ والرعدُ من انتحابه

Verily he wept and the rain from his weeping,

Laments while the thunder wails over his loss.

منتدباً في صرخةٍ وإنَّما

يستصرخ المهديّ في انتدابه

Dispatching with a screech, and nothing but,

Calling out the Mahdi in his mourning.

يا أيها المحجوبُ عن شيعته

وكاشف الغُمّى على احتجابه

O you who are veiled from his supporters,

And the remover of blindness over their covering.

كم تغمد السيف لقد تقطَّعت

رقابُ أهلِ الحقّ في ارتقابه

How long will the sword remain sheathed

While the necks of the people of truth are outstretched?

فانهض لها فليس إلاَّك لها

قد سئم الصابرُ جرع صابه

So rise for them, for none but you remain for them,

The patient have tired from drinking their cup.

واطلُب أباك المرتضى ممَّن غدا

مُنقلباً عنهُ على أَعقابه

And seek out your father Al-Murtaza from those who,

Turned away from him upon their heels.

فهو كتاب الله ضاع بينهم

فاسأل بأمر الله عن كتابه

For he is the Book of Allah, lost between them,

So ask by Allah's command about His Book.

وقل ولكن بلسان مُرهفٍ

واجعل دماء القوم في جوابه

And say - but with an eloquent tongue -

And make the blood of the people your answer.

يا عُصبة الإلحاد أين من قضى

مُحتسباً وكنتِ في احتسابه

O group of atheists! Where is the one who passed away

Aspiring, while you were in your heedlessness?

أين أمير المؤمنين أوما

عن قتله اكتفيت في اغتصابه

Where is the Leader of the Faithful? Or have you not,

Had your fill after stealing him?

لله كم جُرعة غيظٍ ساغها

بعد نبيّ الله من أَصحابه

By Allah! However much anger you drank,

After the Prophet from his companions!

وهي على العالمِ لو توزَّعت

أشرقت العالمَ في شرابه

And if it were distributed over the world,

It would illuminate the world with its drinking.

فابغَ إلى أحمدَ ثقل أحمدٍ

وقُل له يا خير مَن يُدعى به

So convey to Ahmad the weight of Ahmad's loss,

And say: "O best of those called Ahmad!"

إنَّ الأُلى على النفاقِ مَرَدوا

قد كشفوا بَعدك عن نِقابِه

"Verily the misguided have turned away to hypocrisy,

Revealing after you their masks.

وصيَّروا سَرح الهُدى فريسةً

للغيِّ بين الطلسِ من ذِيابه

And they made the pasture of guidance easy prey,

For the wolves between the lurking places.

وغادروا حقَّ أخيك مُضغةً

يلوكها الباطلُ في أنيابِه

And they abandoned the right of your brother as fodder,

For falsehood to gnaw in its fangs."

وظلَّ راعي إفكهم يحلبُ مِن

ضرع لبون الجور في وطابه

"While the shepherd of their slander milks

The udder of tyranny's milk in its teats."

فالأمَّةُ اليومَ غدت في مَجهلٍ

ضلَّت طريقَ الحقِّ في شعابه

"So this nation has fallen into ignorance,

Losing the path of truth in its valleys."

عادوا بها بَعدك جاهليَّةً

مذ قتلوا الهادي الذي تُهدى به

"They have returned it after you to pre-Islamic ignorance,

Since they killed the Guide by whom it is guided."

لم يتشعَّب في قريش نسبٌ

إلاَّ غَدا في المحضِ مِن لُبابه

"No lineage in Quraish branched out,

Except it entered into the purest of its seed."

حتَّى أتيت فأَتى في حسبٍ

قد دخلَ التنزيلُ في حسابه

"Until you came, so the revelation entered,

Into its account and reckoning."

فيا لها غَلطةُ دهرٍ بعدها

لا يَحمدُ الدهر على صوابِه

"So what an immense misguidance after it,

Wherein the ages are not praised for their probity!"

مشى إلى خُلفٍ بها فأصبحت

أَرؤُسهُ تتبع من أَذنابِه

"It went with them to successors, so its heads,

Now follow what used to be their tails."

وما كفاهُ أن أرانا ضِلَّة

وِهادهُ تعلو على هِضابه

"It was not enough that he showed us misguidance,

With his guidance rising above the hills."

حتَّى أرانا ذئبَه مُفترساً

بين الشبولِ لَيثه في غابِه

"Until he showed us its wolf preying upon us,

Between the pitch dark night and its forest."

هذا أَميرُ المؤمنين بعدما

ألجأهم للدين في ضِرابه

"This is the Leader of the Faithful after he had,

Forced them towards the faith with his strikes."

وقادَ من عُتاتِهم مَصاعباً

ما أسمَحت لولا شبا قِرضابه

"And guided the formidable of their elite,

With his swords that the youths kindly faced."

قد أَلفَ الهيجاءَ حتَّى ليلها

أغرابه يأنس في عُقابه

"He endured the komriyya (type of thorn trees) until their nights,

Became intimate to him despite their strangeness."

يمشي إليها وهوَ في ذِهابِه

أشدُّ شوقاً منه في إيابه

"He walked towards them while going,

More passionate than when returning."

كالشبلِ في وثبتهِ والسيفُ في

هبَّته والصلُّ في انسيابه

"Like a lion cub in its pounce, or a sword in its slash,

Or kin in its compassion."

أرادهُ مَن لو لحَظته عينهُ

في مأزقٍ لفرَّ من إرهابه

"One who - if his eyes glanced upon -

In peril, would flee from its intimidation."

ومرَّ من بين الجموعِ هارباً

يَودُّ أن يَخرجَ من إهابِه

"And he passed through the crowds fleeing,

Wishing to exit from its awe."

وهوَ لعمري لو يشاءُ لَم ينَل

ما نال أشقى القوم في آرابه

"By my life! If he wished, he would not have attained,

What the most wretched of people attained in their shelter."

لكن غدا مُسلِّماً مُحتسِباً

والخير كلّ الخير في احتسابه

"But he went submitting and aspiring,

And all good lies in aspiration."

صلَّى عليه الله من مضطهدٍ

قد أغضبوا الرحمن في اغتصابِه

"May Allah send prayers upon him from an oppressor,

Who has angered The Most Merciful by his theft."