حيتْكَ بكرُ النظم غدوه
تجلو الثنا شغفاً وصبوه
The dawn of poetry greeted you at morn
Revealing affection and young love
بنواصعٍ من لفظها
مثل الشموس بزغنَ ضحوه
With brilliant eloquence
Like suns dawning in their splendor
طربتْ لمدحكَ هيفُها
فثنتْ معاطفَ ذات نشوه
She was enthralled praising you
So she donned the robes of delight
جاءتكَ تشكرُ أنعماً
سبقتْ إليها منك حلوه
She came thanking you for favors
That had preceded her, freely bestowed by you
أوقرتها منناً أتتْ
منك ابتداءاً لا بدعوه
You honored her with gifts that came
First from you, not sought through request
عن حملها ضعفت وفي
ها أُعطيتْ للسعيِ قوَّه
She faltered bearing them, so you
Gave strength to effort, reinforcing her
فأتتْ تقاصرُ عن خُطاها
خطوةً ثقلتْ فخطوه
So she came short of reaching your steps
A pace made heavy, so she dragged her train
ودعتْك يا من ليس يحنو
والدٌ أبداً حنوَّه
And called you, O peerless comforter
A father never feels for his son as you feel
ماذا أقولُ بمدحِ مَنْ
فيه كتابُ الله نوَّه
What can I say in praise of one
Whom God's book has extolled?
علمُ الهدى السَّامي الذي
لا تلحقُ العلماءُ شأوه
The sublime, guiding knowledge, which
The scholars cannot attain in its loftiness
ورثَ الأئمَّة كلَّما
قد ورَّثوا من غير صفوه
Inheritor of the Imams, whenever
They bequeathed, with no diminishing
فحوى جميعَ خصالهم
إلاَّ الإِمامة والنبوَّه
Embodying all their merits
Except for leadership and prophecy
أمنازعيه رياسةً
كلٌّ بها يبغي علوَّه
Can any dispute his supremacy,
Each desiring through it his own elevation?
مِن أينَ أنتم إنَّما
إرثُ الأبوَّة للبنوَّه
Whence come you? The legacy of fatherhood
Belongs only to the son
بل مالكم في الاشتراكِ
مع ابن وحيِ الله حظوه
What portion do you claim in sharing
With the son of God's revelation?
حيثُ الإِمامُ بكلِّ عصرٍ
واحدٌ هو فيه قدوه
For in every age there is one Imam
As exemplar, and our Imam of this age
وإمامُنا مهديُّ هذا ال
عصرِ نلجأ فيه نحوه
To whom we turn, is Mahdi
Is he equaled among you?
هذا بقيَّةُ جدِّه
هل فيكمُ تجدون كفوه
Wholly devoted in his deeds
To God, not to fancy and lust
ورعٌ جميعُ فعاله
للهِ لا لهوًى وشهوه
Deceiving not in secrecy
Cloaked in the silk of piety
لا مضمراً غشًّا عليه
بزبرج التقوى مموَّه
Rather pure for God's sake
Pious in solitude and company
لكن تمحَّض للإِلهِ
تقًى بكلِّ ملاً وخلوه
Steadfast in a state by which
He became an example for all faith
جارٍ على حالٍ بها
أضحى لأهل الدين أسوه
Then aid his cause, for nothing
Binds faith stronger than his cord
فاشددْ يديكَ به فما
للدين أوثق منه عروه
How many tribulations has he eased! How much
Has he apportioned from his compressed store!
كم فكَّ من عانٍ وكم
قد راشَ محصوصاً بثروه
And insoluble affairs rendered smooth
Since he calmed them after their ferment
وصعابِ أمرٍ أسلستْ
مذ راضَها من بعد نخوه
He is son of a people whose hands
Plunder does not make familiar
فهو ابنُ قومٍ لا تحلُّ
لهم يدُ اللأواء حبوه
Father of pure deeds, never in time
Were their like forgotten among men
وأبو أطايبَ لم تقمْ
عن مثلهم في الدهر نسوه
Moon of heaven! His father
In nobility, whilst they and meteors are brothers
قمر السماءِ أبوهمُ
شرفاً وهم والشهبُ أخوه
Born in a house of revelation's houses
Highest of the high in summit
وُلِدوا ببيتٍ من بيو
تِ الوحي أعلاهنَّ ذروه
Suckled on the milk of Imamate
From the breast of prophecy
وتراضعوا لبنَ الإِما
مة فيه من ثديِ النبوَّه
A house for virgin glories, graced each day
With new unveilings of its wonders
بيتٌ لأبكارِ المكا
رمِ كلّ يوم فيه جلوه
It is a Kaaba, generosity its crescent idol
And courage its inviolable sacrosanct stone
هو كعبةٌ والجودُ مش
عرُه ومروته المروَّه
Best dwelling midst scarcity of trying days
And dark night of wintry blasts
نعْمَ المناخُ بيوم ضي
قةِ فاقةٍ وبليلِ شتوه
In it plant your hopes and you will find
Them seeds that sprouted with blessings
فازرعْ رجاكَ به تجدْ
هُ كحبَّةٍ نبتتْ بربوه
In generosity it has a Jafar
Munificent, who makes the sea seem niggard
للجودِ فيه جعفرٌ
كرماً يعدُ البحرَ حسوه
And shows you the softness of his hands, that accept
The roughness of rainclouds in drought
ويريكَ لينُ يديه رق
ة غاديات السحب قسوه
Raiding every day the caravan of hopes
Plundering, he smiles as they are seized as spoils
في كلِّ يومٍ في حماه
لغارة الآمالِ غزوه
How often has the aroma of his gifts spread
From the hearth of the potter neighbor!
تُسبى مواهبُه بها
ويُسرُّ إذ يؤخذْنَ عنوه
And how often by it to honor he ran
And the noble hastened after to attain it
كم فاحَ من أعطافه
أرجُ الفخار بدار ندوه
So spur your steed of hope without stop
You will never see it balk or turn away
ولكمْ إلى شرفٍ جرى
وجرتْ بنو العلياء تلوه
The destitute pin their hopes, so he paused
The praiseworthy ladies met their brother
فهووا وحلَّقَ يركبُ ال
شعرى العبورَ إليه صهوه
No longer fearing the violence of dearth
He is the epitome of open-handedness and chivalry
بشراكِ سائمة الرجاءِ
فلم تريْ ما عشتِ جفوه
The water of life for the lovesick heart and its remedy
No sooner does he incline to the lofty
قد جاءَ أكرم مَن به
أملُ العفاة أناخَ نضوه
Than the girls wish to rise in station
Except piety, his brother in kind
لقيتْ أخاها المكرماتُ
فلم تخفْ للبخلِ سطوه
A worthy seed of excellent stock
This eulogized one in the heights
هو ذاك نعمَ فتى السما
حةِ والسجاحة والفتوَّه
Named for the eulogized
Enraging the envious when he appears
ماءُ الحياةِ لذي الهوى
ولقلب ذي الشحناء جذوه
Saddening the adversary when extolled
In him the traits of merit testify
ما إن سما لعلًى تودُّ
النيِّراتُ بها علوَّه
He is the paragon of merit
His features relate the features of those who
إلاَّ التُّقى معه أخوه
صالحٌ منها بذروه
Became the essence of glory in morn’s first glow
The perfect soul, Muhammad
هذا المنوَّهُ في المعالي
باسمه هذا المنوَّه
Most generous of the generous elite
He and Hussein of the lofty
غيظُ الحسود إذا بدا
شرقُ الخصيم إذا تفوَّه
Both proud steeds of pedigree
Two sprigs of honor whose fragrance
فيه سماتُ الفضلِ تشهدُ
أنَّه في الفضلِ قدوه
Suffuses the gardens of prophecy
O brethren in sublime kinship
تحكي شمائله شما
ئلَ مَن غدا في المجدِ صبوه
Blessed are those ties of brotherhood!
A talent greeted you rapturously
روح الكمالِ محمدٌ
أكرمْ به للمجدِ صفوه
None but you embodying the gift of prophecy
It created then offered you from its yield
هو والحسين من العلا
ءِ كلاهما عنقٌ وصهوه
Frank praise, pure drink for the virtuous
And from it gave you recompense
ريحانتا شرفٍ تضوَّ
عَ منهما أرجُ النبوَّه
For benevolence, a draught refined
When dressed in robes of acceptance
يا أخوةَ الشرفِ الرفيع
وبوركت بلك الأخوَّه
It is right she struts with pride
حيتكُمُ بدويَّةٌ
هي عن سواكم ذاتُ نبوه
مخضتْ ثميلتها لكم
حلبَ الثناء صريح رغوه
وسقتكمُ منها مكا
فئةً على الإِحسانِ صفوه
وإذا اكتستْ حللُ القبو
ل فحقَّ أنْ تختالَ زهوه
