أجَارَ مِنَ الخَطْبِ الأميرُ مُحَمّدُ

فَقُمْت بِما أوْلاهُ أُثْني وأحْمَدُ

The prince Muhammad granted my request

So I praised him as I ought and lauded his excellence

ويَوْمَ أتَتْني بالبِشارَةِ رُسْلُه

سَجدْتُ وفي التبشيرِ للّهِ يُسْجَدُ

And when his messengers brought me the good tidings

I prostrated myself, for prostration itself is praise of Allah

وأَمَّلْتُ بالشكرِ المزيدَ من الرِّضى

وأَيّةُ نُعْمَى كالرِّضى تتزَيّدُ

And I hoped for yet more satisfaction through gratitude

For what blessing equals satisfaction that increases?

وظَائفَ ما أهْمَلْتَ حيناً أداءها

وبعضُ شهودِي الأمسُ واليَوم والغَدُ

I have never neglected the duties you charged me with

Some of my witnesses being yesterday, today and tomorrow

هُمامٌ كَفاني الحادِثاتِ اعْتِبارُهُ

وقَدْ عنَّ لي مِنها مُقيمٌ ومُقْعِدُ

Concerns that sufficed me, lessons to be learned from events,

And for me they singled out both settler and nomad

فَلا مِنّةٌ إلا لَهُ في تخَلصي

بِيُمْن مَساعيهِ الكِرَام ولا يَدُ

So I owe no favor but to him for my deliverance

Through the auspicious efforts of the generous, no other

ومَنْ يَكُ فَرْعاً للإمَامةِ والهُدَى

فإنَّ جَنَاهُ الغَضَّ مَجْدٌ وسُؤْدَدُ

He who is a branch of the imamate and guidance

His shelter from harm is glory and happiness

رَآنيَ مرْدودَ الشّرائعِ كُلّما

تَقَرّبْتُ بالإخْلاصِ أُقصَى وأُبْعَدُ

I found the legal prescriptions repealed, every time

I drew near in utter sincerity, farthest and nearest

نَصيبي من الآدابِ حِرْفَتُها التي

شَقِيتُ بِها جاراً لمَنْ بَاتَ يُسْعَدُ

My share of the virtues is the profession of them

That caused me to live alongside one who knew only good fortune

ولِلْحَظِّ لحْظٌ كَلَّ دُونَي خَاسِئاً

كَأني وإياهُ شُعَاعٌ وأرْمَدُ

And destiny has a destiny that has ever abandoned me

As if it and I were a beam of light and the blind

فَجمَّعَ مِن شَمْلي وشَمْلي مُفَرَّقٌ

وَرفَّه من شِربي وشرْبي مُصَرَّدُ

So he gathered what had scattered me and what I had scattered

And buttressed my drinking and my drinking that tottered

وصَرّحَ بِالبُقيا ومازالَ مُنْعِماً

له مَصْدَرٌ في الصالِحاتِ ومَوْرِدُ

And he was open about granting me more and kept favoring me

For him are resources for good works and a spring

وكانَت هوىً ألقى إلَيها بِيَ الهَوى

فَخلّصَنِي منها مُعَاٌن مُؤَيَّدُ

And it had been a passion to which passion delivered me

But concepts supported by him saved me from it

تَشَفّعْتُ فيها للإمامِ بِنَجْلِه

ونِعْمَ شَفيعُ المذنبينَ مُحَمَّدُ

Through his son I implored the imam to intercede for me

And excellent is Muhammad as intercessor for sinners