طارَ نَومي وَعاوَدَ القَلبَ عيدُ
وَأَبى لي الرُقادَ حُزنٌ شَديدُ
My sleep has flown, and sorrow has returned to my heart,
Reluctant is slumber to visit me, so great is my grief.
جَلَّ ما بي وَقَلَّ صَبري فَفي قَل
بي جِراحٌ وَحَشوُ جَفني السُهودُ
Little is my patience, and less that which consoles me,
My heart harbors wounds, and my eyelids are calloused from weeping.
سَهَرٌ يَفتُقُ الجُفونَ وَنيرا
نٌ تَلَظّى قَلبي لَهُنَّ وَقودُ
Insomnia splits open my eyelids, and the fires
Of my heart are stoked, making pain their fuel.
لامَني صاحِبي وَقَلبي عَميدُ
أَينَ مِمّا يُريدُهُ ما أُريدُ
If only my companion were near, he the pillar of my heart!
How different is what I desire from what is intended for me!
شَيَّبَتني وَما يُشَيِّبُني السُن
نُ هُمومٌ تَترى وَدَهرٌ مَريدُ
It is not the passing years that have aged me,
But sorrows that come in succession, and a hostile fate.
فَتَراني مِثلَ الصَحيفَةِ قَد أَخ
لَصَها عِندَ صَقلِها تَرديدُ
Thus I am like a page that has been
Polished by repeated rubbing until thin.
أَينَ إِخواني الأُلى كُنتُ أَصفي
هِم وِدادي وَكُلُّهُم لي وَدودُ
Where are my dear brothers with whom I shared
My affection, and who were all loving to me?
شَرَّدَتهُم كَفُّ الحَوادِثِ وَالأَي
يامُ مِن بَعدِ جَمعِهِم تَشريدُ
The hand of events has scattered them, and time
After gathering us, dispersed us far and wide.
فَلَقَد أَصبَحوا وَأَصبَحتُ مِنهُم
كَلِحاءٍ اِستُلَّ مِنهُ العودُ
Truly, they and I have become like
A looted encampment, its tent poles uprooted.
هَل لِدُنيا قَد أَقبَلَت نَحوَنا دَه
راً فَصَدَّت وَلَيسَ مِنّا صُدودُ
Does a world that turned its back to us
Have any loyalty? None stand firm against it.
مَن مُعادٌ أَم لا مُعادَ لَدَينا
فَاِسلُ عَنها فَكُلُّ شَيءٍ يَبيدُ
What awaits us? Is there no future left for us?
Stop asking about it, for all things perish.
رُبَّما طافَ بِالمُدامِ عَلَينا
عَسكَرِيٌّ كَغُصنِ بانٍ يَميدُ
Perhaps a military patrol will pass by us
Swaying like a supple bough.
أَكرَعُ الكَرعَةَ الرَوِيَّةَ في الكَأ
سِ وَطَرفي بِطِرفِهِ مَعقودُ
I will tilt my goblet and lift it to my eye,
Its rim touching my eyelids.
أَيُّها السائِلي عَنِ الحَسَبِ الأَط
يَبِ ما فَوقَهُ لِخَلقٍ مَزيدُ
O you who ask about noble lineage -
None are nobler than we, guides to every tribe.
نَحنُ آلُ الرَسولِ وَالعِترَةُ الحَق
قُ وَأَهلُ القُربى فَماذا تُريدُ
We are the House of the Prophet, the true kin,
The near relations - what more do you seek?
وَلَنا ما أَضاءَ صُبحٌ عَلَيهِ
وَأَتَتهُ آياتُ لَيلٍ سودُ
To us belongs all that the dawn has shone upon,
And all that the verses of night have made dark.
وَمَلَكنا رِقَّ الإِمامَةِ ميرا
ثاً فَمَن ذا عَنّا بِفَخرٍ يَحيدُ
We have held the succession of leadership an inheritance.
Who then would boast or deviate from us?
وَأَبونا حامي النَبِيِّ وَقَد أَد
بَرَ مَن تَعلَمونَ وَهوَ يَذودُ
Our father protected the Prophet, driving
Off enemies you know well, defending and guarding.
ذاكَ يَومَ اِستَطارَ بِالجَمعِ رَدعٌ
في حُنَينٍ وَلِلوَطيسِ وَقودُ
That day the confederates stirred,
To kindle war at Hunayn - fuel for the inferno.
كانَ فيهِم مِنّا المُكاتِمُ إيما
ناً وَفِرعَونُ غافِلٌ وَالجُنودُ
Among them were hypocrites from us, and Pharaoh,
Oblivious,with his legions unaware.
رُسُلُ القَومِ حينَ لَدَّوا جَميعاً
غَيرَهُ كَيفَ فُضِّلَ المَلدودُ
When the people called each other to arms
None was preferred over the outcast.
