وأبيك لا حيٌّ يدومُ

فعلام ترمضك الهمومُ

Your father, though no longer alive, endures

Why then do sorrows torment you?

لا تجزعنَّ لضاعنٍ

وانظر هديت مَن المقيم

Do not despair for one who is lost

And see, who remains to guide

إنَّا بنو الدنيا تطيبُ

لنا ومربعُها وخيم

We, the people of this world, enjoy

Its goodness, its squares and tents

نرجو الشفا لسقيمنا

وصحيحنا فيها سقيم

We hope for recovery for our sick

While the healthy among us is ill

ونرومُ أن نبقى بها

والموتُ غايةُ ما نروم

And we aspire to remain in it

Though death is the ultimate we aspire to

هذا الحسينُ وكانَ يس

تسقي بطلعته الغيوم

This is al-Husayn, who was

Watering the clouds with his smile

سائل به محرابهُ

إن شئتَ فهو به عليم

Ask his shrine, if you wish

He is surely knowledgeable about it

يخبرك كم بسناه أم

سى يزهر الليل البهيم

It will tell you how much good he did

That the dark night may bloom

متهجداً لله ودَّت

لثمَ مسجده النجوم

Devoted to God, he kissed

The ground of his mosque, the stars

هو واحد التقوى الذي

هي بعد مولده عقيم

He is the true pious one

After whose birth it was sterile

رحل الحمام به فتلك

معالم التقوى رسوم

The doves departed with him, so those

Are the symbols of piety

رُفعتْ برفعِ سريره ال

بركات وافتُقِدَ النعيم

With the lifting of his coffin, blessings

Were raised up and comfort was lost

حملوه والتقوى تنا

شده ومدمعُها سجوم

They carried him while piety

Clung to him as his tears flowed

يا ذاهباً لا يُرتجى

أبد الزمان له قدوم

O you who will not return

For eternity has no recurring

فاللحد هل يدري أأن

تَ أم الصلاحُ به مقيم

Does the grave know that you

Are the doer of good, settled within it?

قمرُ السماء به توارى

أم محيَّاك الكريم

The moon of the sky hid with him

Or is it your generous self revived?

إن يوصِ غيرك مَن بإر

ثِ يتيمه ورعاً يقوم

If others inherit from you

An orphan whom they raise devout

فالنسك إرثٌ والوصيُّ

تقاك والزهدُ اليتيم

Then devotion is an inheritance and the trustee

Is your piety and asceticism the orphan

ومقيم مأتمك التقى

إن التقى نعمَ المقيم

And what settled your mourning is piety

Piety, what a good settlement

وبك المعزِّي من أتى

في مدحه الذكر الحكيم

And with you is the comforter who came

In his praise, the Wise Remembrance

القائمُ المهديُّ مَن

تُجلى بطلعته الهموم

The Riser, the Mahdi, will appear

With his emergence, worries will be unveiled

ورثَ النبوَّة علمها

فهو الخبيرُ بها العليم

He inherited the knowledge of prophethood

So he is the All-Knowing, the Expert of it

مولًى بنادي عزِّه

تتضاءل الصيدُ القروم

The patron with his call of pride

While the prey of others is humiliated

نادٍ ملائكةُ السماء

على سرادقه تحوم

The angels of heaven call

Upon his pavilion that they hover over

وبشمِّ آناف الملوك

ترابُ عتبته شميم

And with the scent of his sandal

The dust of his threshold is fragrant

في صدره المهديُّ تص

در للورى منه العلوم

In his breast, the Mahdi produces

Knowledge for people while others are sterile

ملأتْ نتائجه الزمان

وغيره الشكل العقيم

His outcomes have filled time

While others are of impotent form

فله الزعامة في الهُدى

وسواه في الدعوى أثيم

So he has the leadership in guidance

While others in claims are sinful

يا مَن لهُ النسبُ الصريح ال

محض والحسبُ الكريم

O you whose lineage is clear

And noble lineage is esteemed

عجباً يرومُ عُلاك من

لك فوقه الشرفُ القديم

It is wondrous that one above you

Seeks your loftiness, of ancient nobility

فوقَ الرغام وتحتَ نعلك

أنف همَّته رغيم

Above vermin, and under your sandal

Is the nose of his aspirations, despised

هبه يرومُ فأين مِن

يد مَن على الأرض النجوم

He aspires, but where can the hand of one

Whose stars are upon the earth reach?

مثلان خلقُك والنسيمُ

ونداكَ والغيثُ العميم

You and the breeze are two of a kind

And your call and abundant rain

ولأنت واسطةُ العلاء

وولدُك العقدُ النظيم

You are the means of the exalted

And your son, the strung pearls

قومٌ بهم أمِنَ المروعُ

وفيهم أثرى العديم

A people who the frightened are safe with

And through them the deprived grows rich

كلاً تراه جعفراً

في الجودِ وهو لهم زعيم

You see each as Ja‘far

In generosity, and he is their chief

أرجُ السيادة فيهم

كالمسك ينشره النسيم

I hope for supremacy through them

Like musk spread by the breeze

رضعوا الإِمامة فالجميعُ

بنور عصمتها فطيم

They suckled the Imamate, so all of them

Are nourished by the light of its infallibility

فولاؤهم فرضٌ وهد

يُهم الصراطُ المستقيم

Their loyalty is an obligation, and their

Guidance is the Straight Path

لبس الزمان بهاءهم

فبهم محيَّاه وسيم

Time is adorned by their brilliance

So by them it is beautified and seemly

وبهم لنا الأيامُ يقطر

من غضارتها النعيم

By them, days rain upon us

The blessings of their lushness

تهوى السماءُ بأنها

لصعيد أرضهم أديم

The sky craves that it

Be the ground of their land forever

وإذا مشوا فوقَ الثرى

حسدت نعالهم النجوم

And when they walk upon the earth

Their sandals are envied by the stars

يا سادة العلما ومَن

تزن الجبال لهم حلوم

O masters of knowledge, by whom

Even mountains are weighed down

بكم العزاءُ وحسبُنا

من كلِّ ماضٍ أن تدوموا

Through you is consolation, and it suffices us

Of all that has passed that you endure

أمحمدٌ في ظلّهم

ستنال أقصى ما تروم

Muhammad in their shade

Will attain the utmost he hopes for

فأبوك إنْ يفقدْ فكلّ

هم أبٌ برٌّ رحيم

So if your father is lost, then each of them

Is a righteous, merciful father

سيقرّ عيناً في الثرى

إذ فيك جودُهم يقوم

It will comfort eyes in the dirt

As his generosity through you endures

حيَّا الملائك قبره

من حيث فيه هو المقيم

The angels greeted his grave

Where he settled, from whence he is

وسقته من أنواء عفو

الله واكفةٌ سجوم

And from the forgiveness of God he drank

A handful of pouring rain