خذوا لي من سعدى أمانا من الهجر

فمالي على هجر الأحبة من صبر

Ask Saadi for my safety from parting,

For I have no patience to bear the separation of loved ones.

وما الهجر من سعدى علي بهين

فاسلو ولا قلبي صفاة من الصخر

Parting from Saadi is not easy for me,

So ask her, though my heart is as hard as rock.

إلى الله أشكو أن في القلب لوعة

فقلبي من فوق الفراش على جمر

I complain to God that there is agony in my heart,

So my heart lies on embers above the bed.

أبيت فلا جفني يكف دموعه

ولا غلة الأشواق تبرد من صدري

I stay up so my eyelids cannot hold back their tears,

Nor can the intensity of longing cool down in my chest.

وما غمضت استغفر الله مقلتي

نعم غمضت لكن على دمعة تجري

I have not closed my eyes to pray for forgiveness,

Yes I have closed them, but upon tears that flow.

لقد كثر الواشون عني وزوروا

علي حديثا لا ببطني ولا ظهري

The slanderers have become many and falsely accused me

With talk neither about my essence nor my appearance.

وسدوا طريق الصلحي بيني وبينها

فما قبلت مني ولا سمعت عذري

And they have blocked the path of reconciliation between us,

So she has not accepted me, nor heard my excuse.

لئن حجبوها من مسارح ناظري

فما حجبوها عن خيالي ولا فكري

Even if they have veiled her from the plains of my sight,

They have not veiled her from my imagination and thought.

وعهدي بسعدي يدرك الصب عطفها

ويحمل عن مشاقها نوب الصبر

And I trust that Saadi will attain her kindness,

And will carry the loads of her difficulties with patience.

فوا أسفا مالي هلكت من الأسى

وفي يدها نفعي وفي يدها ضري

Oh how miserable I am! I have perished from agony,

While in her hands lies my benefit and in her hands my harm.

هل العيش الا ان يساعدني النوى

بوصلك يا سيدي ويسعدني دهري

If only the one I love would have mercy and care for me,

And gain tremendous reward in our union.

أحن إلى وادى العقيق واهله

كمثل حنين الأم للولد البكر

Ask the night, no, by God, my tears did not stop,

Nor have I tasted the sweetness of sleep until dawn.

وأذكر أياما حمد لأجلها

زماني وما أنفقت فيها من العمر

How can sleep taste sweet to a perplexed lover

Who stays up at night, swimming in a sea of thoughts?

عسى عطفة منكم يهب نسيمها

وتأتي بلطف الله من حيث لا أدرى

Perhaps a messenger from you will come with acceptance,

So my heart meets him with good tidings and gladness.

حملت من الاشجان مالا أطيقه

فيا ليتني حملت فيها على قدري

Perhaps your short nights will return to me,

And I will spend them between talks and remembrance.

فياليت من اهواه يرثى ويرعوي

ويغنم في وصلي عظيما من الأجر

And I will reap the fruits of union from them as they draw near,

Conversations of a sea of longing to another sea.

سلوا الليل لا والله ما كف مدمعي

ولا ذقت طعم النوم فيه إلى الفجر

And the wine of union has clothed me in intoxication

With which I have become drunk, beyond the drunkenness of wine.

وكيف يذوق النوم حيران مدنف

يبيت من الأفكار يسبح في بحر

And a night of reproach has passed over us,

During which the tears of my eyes flowed like scattered pearls.

لعل رسولا منك يقبل بالرضا

فيلقاه قلبي بالبشائر والبشر

Perhaps what grieves me, foolish to the heart, will bring it rest,

And even if it brings no cure to the illness of my chest.

لعل لياليك القصار تعود لي

فأقطعها بين الأحاديث والذكر

I hoped for wishes where their promises were to us

About Abul Abbaas, engraved on stone.

وأجني ثمار الوصل منها وقد دنت

سوالف بحر من مشوق إلى بحر

When he promises us a promise, our souls take hold

Of that matter with our hands.

وقد ألبستني خمرة الوصل نشوة

ثملت بها زادت على نشوة الخمر

A king close by when his name is called

To good and beauty, far from evil and harm.

ودارت علينا للعتاب سلافة

أفاضت دموع العين كاللؤلؤ النثر

He pardons the sinner, slow in punishment,

Quick to piety, swift to kindness.

عسى مالتعس سفيه للقلب راحة

وان لم يكن فيه شفى علة الصدر

Generous, he surpasses the wind in reaching high,

And rains upon the meadows his abundant downpour.

رجوت الأماني حيث كانت وعودها

لنا عن أبي العباس نقشا على صخر

The deputy of the Lord of the Worlds, His trusted one

Over the secret in the affair of creation openly and privately.

إذا وعد تنا عنه وعدا نفوسنا

قبضنا بأيدينا على ذلك الأمر

He protects the true religion and its people

With a white Indian sword and a brown strapped sword.

مليك قريب حين يهتف باسمه

إلى الخير والحسني بعيد من الشر

He helps the cause of God in it and has never ceased

To set out morning and evening for fortitude and victory.

صفوح عن الجاني بطيء عقابه

عجول إلى التقوى سريع إلى البر

He established the canal of truth after its winding,

And erected pillars of glory and pride.

جواد يفوت الريح سبقا إلى العلا

ويزري على الأنوا بنائله الغمر

He founded gifts of delegation in positions of height,

And attached the fruitful ones among us, people of poverty.

خليفة رب العالمين أمينه

على السر في أمر الخلائق والجهر

And he took a stance that God knows is the stance

Of a trustee who won praise and reward.

يحامي عن الدين الحنيف وأهله

بهندية بيض وخطية سمر

Hearing, answering the prayer of a servant when he prays,

Generous, He replaces hardship with ease.

وينصر أمر الله فيها ولم يزل

يورح ويغدو في الكلاءة والنصر

He has filled leadership of the people, undertaken

Reforming those among them from desert and urban areas.

أقام قناة الحق بعد اعوجاجها

وشيد أركانا من المجد والفخر

So at times he draws near with favor and gentleness,

And at times distances with sternness and rebuke.

وأنشا عطايا الوفد من رتب العلا

وألحق بالمثرين منا ذوي الفقر

He decides but does not act on passion, and deters but not out of whim;

Rather, it is a judgement that flows on its judgement.

وقام مقاما يعلم الله أنه

مقام أمين فاز بالحمد والأجر

Merciful, so not harsh toward them,

Compassionate with them, more careful than a gracious father.

سميع مجيب دعوة العبد إذ دعا

جواد كريم يبدل العسر باليسر

His hands remain outstretched with his provision

While his schemes against enemies run their course by night.

ملي بإرشاد الورى متكفل

بإصلاح من بالبدو منهم وبالحضر

So they kill them without his sword of Saud,

And seize them with his opinions, like one who overpowers.

فطورا بتقريب ونوع من الرضا

وطورا بابعاد ونوع من الزجر

His opinion alone suffices his enemies against his armies,

For his opinions make armies unnecessary.

فيقضي ولا يفعل ويدلي ولا هوى

ولكنه حكم على حكمه يجري

Whoever has God's victory as leader of his army,

Does not worry about numbers in battle.

رحيم فلا فظ غليظ عليهم

شفيق بهم أحفى من الوالد البر

In the Most Noble Sultan, God has an argument

Established over the people of misguidance and disbelief.

تظل أياديه تشير برفده

وتمسي إلى الأعدا مكائده تسرى

Do you not see how he turns away from his enemy

And entrusts the whole matter to God, the Disposer of affairs?

فتقتلهم من غير سيف سعوده

وتاخذهم آراؤه أخذ ذى قهر

And how God has sufficed him against what he feared

And averted evil from him from every evildoer?

كفى رأيه أعداءه عن جيوشه

فآراؤه تغنى عن العسكر المجر

His opinion alone suffices his enemies against his armies,

For his opinions make armies unnecessary.

ومن كان نصر الله قائد جيشه

إلى الحرب لم يحفل بزيد ولا عمرو

Whoever has God's victory as leader of his army,

Does not worry about numbers in battle.

وفي الأشرف السلطان لله حجة

تقام على أهل الضلالة والكفر

In the Most Noble Sultan, God has an argument

Established over the people of misguidance and disbelief.

ألست ترى إعراضه عن عدوه

وتسليم كل الأمر لله ذى الأمر

Do you not see how he turns away from his enemy

And entrusts the whole matter to God, the Disposer of affairs?

وكيف كفاه الله ما كان يتقى

واطفا عنه الشر من كل ذى شر

And how God has sufficed him against what he feared

And averted evil from him from every evildoer?

فيا أيها الملك الممهد دعوة

من ابن هموم محوجات إلى الفكر ط

So O King who paves the way,

From a son of worries and needs of reflection!

نحبك حبا لو تقسم بعضه

على الخالق لم يوجد عدوان في قطر

We love you with a love that if some of it

Were divided upon the Creator, no wrongdoing would be found in any place.

ويلبس من نعماك أثواب عزة

يتيه بها الماشي ويزهو من الكبر

And one would wear from your favors the garments of honor

In which the walker would wander boastfully in pride.

أتاك وأحداث الليالي محيطة

به وهو ملقى ليس يجرى ولا يمري

I have come to you while the events of nights engulf me,

Cast down, neither flowing nor swimming.

وقد رد من فوق الثريا إلى الثرى

فالقى كما يلقي القلام من الظفر

And I have been cast down from atop joy to the earth,

So I have met it as the pen meets the fingertip.

وأصبح مقصوص الجناحين ينتمي

لخذلانه من كان يرجوه للنصر

And I have woken having had my wings clipped, blaming

My disappointment in the one I hoped would grant me victory.

يمد يد الراجي المحدث نفسه

بنيل الأماني منك يا جبر الكسر

I extend the hand of hopeful wishing, flattering myself

To attain my hopes from you, O Healer of Breakage.

لعلك ترثي لانكساري وذلتي

وتدرك كسرى وانصداعي بالجبر

Perhaps you will have compassion for my defeat and humiliation,

And will attain my recovery and mending with healing.

فكم بك عن غيري وعني من غنا

وكم لي آمال إليك من الفقر

So how much delight from others and me there has been through you!

And how many hopes of poverty I have toward you!

عسى يا أبا العباس تهتز نبعتي

وتكسو أعاليها من الورق الخضر

I hope, O Abul Abbaas, that my spring will tremble

And its highest points will be clothed in green leaves.

فاني غرس في نداك غرستني

والبستني نعما رفعت بها قدري

For I am a plant planted by your hand, you planted me

And clothed me in favors by which you raised my worth.

أأخشى بأن أظما وجودك كوثر

وفي كل دار منه ساقية تجرى

Shall I fear that praising your existence is blasphemy,

When in every abode of it there is a flowing spout?

ابي الله والجود الذي أنت أهله

فما هو بالشيء الزهيد ولا النزر

I seek refuge in God and the generosity which you are worthy of,

For it is neither a trivial nor paltry thing.