يا رب صل على المختار سيدنا

والآل والصحب من لا يحصى فضلهم

O Lord, bless our chosen one, our master

And his family and companions, whose virtues are beyond count,

من نيلهم عم كلّ الناس أجمعهم

من نورُهم ضاء مثل الأزهر النجم

Through whom all people altogether have attained virtue,

By their light the bright stars have shone through the darkness,

برق الحما من رُبا الفيحاء من إضم

مذ لاح جاء بما يشجيك في الظلم

The lightning flashed from the clouds of Fayha’ and Adham, since it appeared bringing you relief in the darkness,

The lightning bolts follow one another from Najd, so it has bequeathed to me

تتابع البرق من نجد فأورثني

شجواً وهما وتذكاراً وذا سأم

Yearning, anxiety, and remembrance, and this I have become weary of.

O this young man - rather, O kinsman of determination -

يا أيهذا الفتى بل يا أهيل الحما

صبٌّ براه الاسي والذل والسقم

Pour forth the flowing tears and submission and sickness,

In the greatest distress of fetters and difficulties,

في غاية من زمام الكرب والنصب

كذا اذا أظلم الديجور لم ينم

Thus, when the darkness of night falls, it does not sleep.

Make its long night sleepless, O kinsman of love, tame it

ثواله يا أهيل الود أدبه

من معضلات أضرت جسمه ألم

From insoluble problems that have caused its body pain.

I think that I cannot bear it - how can that be when indeed

ظني بأن لا أضام كيف ذاك وقد

أتيتكم يا كرام العُربِ والعجم

You have come to me, O noblest of Arabs and non-Arabs.

My eyes were sleepless in the darkness and I

جفا عياني منامي في الدجى وأنا

فلم يقر قرار لي من الالم

So no restfulness came to me from the pain.

And I despaired, my state worsened forever,

وضقت ذرعاً ساءت حالتي أبداً

فداركوا قبل ما أُودى من السقم

So help me before I am destroyed by the sickness.

And in me is the evil of intentions, the flames of a blazing fire,

وبي بسوء النوي لهيب نار جوي

عسى غياث قريباً عاجلاً يقم

Perhaps a speedy, immediate rescue will arise.

The harm touched its delicate, belonging to you,

ضراءُ مسته رق منتمي لكم

وصار من سقمه في حالة العدم

And it has become, from its sickness, in the state of nothingness.

And a witness for me is a pouring tear that surpassed

وشاهدٌ لي دمع مرسَلٌ سَبق

بحمرة كشبيه الدم والعنم

With redness, like blood and droplets.

And I have become in tears from what my hands have harvested

وصرت في عَبرة مما جنته يدي

من شؤم ذنبي أرى بالذل والندم

From the ill omen of my sin, which I see with humility and regret.

I knocked on the door of the generous one, always hoped for,

طرقت باب كريم يرتجى أبداً

حي سميع بصير فهو لم ينم

The Living, Hearing, Seeing, for He does not sleep.

Thus I pleaded with the Guiding Intercessor so that

كذا وثنيت بالهادي الشفيع لكي

أرى القبول وتقبل دعوتي بهم

I may see acceptance and my prayer through them being received.

They are the family of the Messenger of God, all of them,

هم آل بيت رسول اللَه كلهم

فيهم فخار وفي أقوالهم حكم

In them is pride and in their words is wisdom.

Muhammad is the heir, the one sent with kindness

محمدُ العاقب المبعوث بالكرم

والفيض والمن والاحسان من قدم

And overflowing virtue and favor from early on.

And the one through whom Medina became fragrant, its essences

ومن به طيبة طابت عناصرها

مشرَّف الروضة الغناء والاكم

Have been honored, the meadow and the hillocks.

The prophet of sincerity and verification from the beginning,

نبيُّ ذي الصدق والتحقيق من أزل

والصفح والذكر والاحسان والحكم

And pardoning, remembrance, kindness, and wisdom.

You see places through him become more noble

ترى البقاع به تزداد من شرف

وطاب ارجاؤها في السهل والاكم

And its environs have been purified in the plains and hillocks.

The camel yearned for him and the gazelle spoke to him

حنَّ البعير له والظبي كلمه

والجذع حن له والديب والكلم

And the calf inclined to him, and the wolf, and the stream.

And since the speechless trees called to him obediently

ومذ دعا الشجر الخرساء طائعة

أتته تسعى على ساق بلا قدم

They came to him hastily on a leg without a foot.

And how many miracles for this Chosen One forever

وكم معجزات لهذا المصطفى أبدا

تواترت عدها لا يحص بالقلم

Have been related in number that cannot be penned.

And those are in the well-known accounts made clear

وتلك بالخبر المشهور مسفرة

كطالع الصبح والسيارة النجم

Like the rising dawn and the revolving celestial bodies.

And God made water flow from his hands which quenched

وأنبع اللَه ماءً من يديه سقى

جيشاً عظيماً روى الظمآن والنعم

A great army, satisfying the thirsty and favor.

With revelation he was ennobled and the Heavenly Ascension, then he saw

بالوحي شرف والمعراج ثم رأى

مولاه بالعين جل اللَه لم ينم

His Protector with his eyes, Majestic is God, He does not sleep.

And he attained noble character and manners

ونال علماً وأخلاقاً مكرمة

والرب خاطبه بالقول ذي الحكم

And the Lord spoke to him with words of wisdom.

All the memorizers wandered confused and were dumbfounded

تاهت جميع الحفاظ واندهشت

وحار في وصفه الجمهور والعلم

And the general populace and scholars were perplexed in describing him.

This noble prophet, the hoped for advocate

هذا النبي الكريم المرتجى سنداً

في دار دنيا وأخرى معدن الكرم

In the homely life and the next, source of nobility.

An intercessor, advocate on the Day of Resurrection, our rescuer

مشفع شافع في الحشر منقذنا

من هول ذي موقف والنار تضطرم

From the enormity of that territory, and the fire blazing.

And through the prophet, the praised of action, our master

وبالنبي حميد الفعل سيدنا

أوليتنا خالقي من سابغ النعم

My Creator has granted me of abundant favor.

He praised him with the inimitable verses of the Scripture,

أثنى عليه بآي الذكر محكمة

ربٌّ تنزه عن كيف وعن عدم

A Lord exalted above “how” and “not.”

God extolled his name and specified him

اللَه نوَّه باسمه وخصصه

بعمره مقسماً في الآي ذي الحكم

In his life swearing by him in the verse of wisdom.

So bestow favor upon the composer in haste,

فامنن على ناظم بالجود في عجل

فانني ضاع صبري ضائق النسم

For my patience has vanished, constricted is my breath.

And give drink to your slave whom his sorrow has weakened, from

وتشفه من عنى أضناه عبدك من

محمد هاشم ابن الميرغني الختم

Muhammad Hashim son of Mirghani the seal.

And bless, O Lord, the Chosen One as long as the sun rises

وصل رب على المختار ما بزغت

شمس وبدر أضافي حندس الظلم

And the full moon, my hands stretched out in darkness.

A Muslim, hopeful, as long as the full moon gleams

مسلماً وائماً ما لاح بدر سما

وما سرى البرق في الظلماء من إضم

And as lightning flashes in the deep darkness.

Dazzled by the lightning of Quba and it blinked, and knocked from the clouds

مَغترَّ برقُ قبا واخضلّ ودقُ ربا

من عُربِ كاظمة جيران ذي سلم

Of silent Arabs, neighbors of one with peace.

And the family and companions, my masters, and through them

وعُمَّ آلٍ وصحبٍ سادتي وبهم

أنال قصدي الذي أهوى بفضلهم

I attain my aim which I yearn for through their excellence.