نفسي بحبل ولاء أحمد أمسكتْ

مذ أحكمتْ بنياط قلبي عقدَه

My soul with the rope of loyalty I held

Since I tied the knot of my heart firmly

أنّي وفرضُ مودتي هي فيهمُ

أجر الرسالة لستُ أنسى عهده

That my duty of friendship is in them

I will not forget the reward of the message

بل لم تزلْ كبدي تروِّح وجدَها

بنسيم ذكراه فتلقى برده

Rather, my inner self still feels its passion

With the breeze of his remembrance, so it finds its coolness

ماذا أقول على البعاد محرراً

من نعت شوقٍ فيه أشكو بعده

What can I say about distance relieved

From describing yearning in which I complain about its remoteness

وجميع أقلامي يكلُّ لسانها

عن أنْ يحيط بوصفه فيحدُّه

And all my pens, their tongues fail

To encompass describing him, so they limit him

لكن إذا سال الحبيب فؤاده

علمَ الذي عندي بما هو عنده

But if the beloved asked my heart

It knew what was in me of what was in him

هو ذاك غرةُ جبهة الحسب الذي

لفخاره السامي أعدَّ معدَّه

He is the pride of the honorable lineage whose

Sublime glory I prepared its preparation

من طينة الشرف التي من محضها

باري الأنام برى أباه وجدَّه

From the clay of honor which from its purity

The Lord of the people created his father and grandfather

من معدن الكرم الإلهيِّ الذي

لا خلقَ إلاَّ وهو يشكو رفده

From the essence of the Divine generosity which

No creature but complains of its flow

من بيت مختلف الملائكة الذي

للحق يهدي من تطلَّب رشده

From the house the angels differ

To the truth it guides whoever sought its guidance

من منبع الحكم الذي يرد النهى

منه ويصدر وهو يحمدُ ورده

From the spring of wisdom which refuses improperness

And issues from it while it praises its running

من عترة الوحي الذين سما بهم

حسبٌ له التنزيلُ يرفع مجده

From the family of revelation whom the Quran named

Lineage enough for it elevates their glory

ممن بعطف علاهُم متضوِّعٌ

أرجُ الإمامة مهدياً لك ندَّه

From those whom the gentle Patron honored

The height of the Imamate, made you its match

ممن على أولى الزمان نداهم

غمروا به حرَّ الزمان وعبده

From those who at the early time their voice

Flooded the heat of time and subdued it

في كل عصرٍ منهم ابنُ نبوَّةٍ

جمع الإله به المحاسنَ وحده

In every time from them a prophetic son

God combined moral virtues in him alone

فردٌ يسدُّ مسدَّ أرباب النهى

وجميعها ليستْ تسدُّ مسدَّه

An individual who occupies the position of the prohibitory

And all of them do not occupy his position

واليوم هذا أحمدٌ في فضله

فاضربْ بذهنك أين تلقى ندَّه

And today Ahmad in his superiority

So think where you can find his match

جاءت رسالته إليَّ فقلتُ ما

كذب الفؤادُ بما رأى لي ودَّه

His message came to me, so I said what

The heart lied not in what it saw to be his love

ونظرتُ في معراج رحلته التي

قد نال بالإسراء فيها قصده

And I looked to the ascension of his journey

In which by the night journey he attained his purpose

إذ سار مقتعداً براق عزيمة

قد قرّبت من كل أفقٍ بعده

When he walked determined on Al-Buraq swiftly

It brought close every distant horizon

وأرتْه من آياته ما لا يَرى اب

نُ مفازةٍ لو كانَ أعملَ جهده

And showed him of His signs what no human son

Can see even if he employed his effort

فأتى يقصُّ محاسن القصص التي

قد أبطلت هزل الكلام وجدَّه

So he came narrating the excellent stories

Which nullified the jest of words in their seriousness

أنباء فضلٍ هنَّ أوحى آيها

من غيب أسرار البلاغة عنده

News of superiority which were inspired upon him

From the unseen secrets of eloquence in his possession

أبغي الخطابَ له بوصفٍ جامعٍ

لهباته فيه أخاطب مجده

I seek to address him with an inclusive description

In which his talents I address his glory

وأعود عما أبتغي متحيراً

ماذا أقول ولست أملك وجده

And I refrain from what I seek to do, confused

What can I say and I do not possess his passion

إذ عندي القاموس بعض هباته

فمتى سوى القاموس يشملُ رفده

For the dictionary to me is some of his gifts

So when can the dictionary encompass supplying his flow

وله لديَّ صنيعةٌ من معدن ال

جود الذي فرض المهيمنُ حمده

And for me he has a work of the essence

Of generosity which the All-Compelling enjoined his praise

بيضاء صافية الحديدة قد حكتْ

بصفاء جوهرها لعيني ودَّه

Pure white steel which etched

The splendor of his essence truly to my eye

وكأنَّ رونق ذلك الحسب الذي

ينهى إليه بها أشاع فرنده

And as if the luster of that lineage

To which through it his diffusion propagated its notch

مشحوذةً كلسانه فكأنه

فيها مكان الحدّ رُكّب حده

Sharpened as his tongue, so it is as if

In it the place of sharpness the hilt attached its edge

تروي حديث القطع عن ذي رونقٍ

فيه النبيُّ أبوه أتحف جدَّه

It tells the story of cutting off from the graceful one

In it the Prophet, his father, endowed his grandfather

ما قطّ رأس يراعةٍ فيها فتىً

إلاَّ تذكَّر ذا الفقار وقدَّه

Never has a nape seen in it a young man

Unless it remembered Dhu al-Faqar and its cutting