Sol 5.6

  1. O Wajih, behold, there have blo—

    —wn the winds of good fortune.

  2. And lightning flashed in the darkness

    from the farthest highlands.

  3. They recalled to me nights

    long gone around Hud—

  4. the ravine of the grave of the Prophet, the Mes—

    —senger, faithful to his covenants.

  5. O nights of contentment, re—

    —turn, that my bough may grow green

  6. through reunion and drawing near,

    after this long estrangement.

  7. O guardians of the sanctuary, show compas—

    —sion to a lover laid low,

  8. and have mercy on one whose tears

    have wounded his cheeks.

  9. Whenever lightning gleamed

    above Wadi Zarud,

  10. and the life-giving rain poured, abun—

    —dant, and thunder groaned,

  11. he passed the night wakeful, unable to en—

    —joy the sweetness of sleep,

  12. remembering a bitter life

    that passed among the perennial wells,

  13. the hillocks and the watercourses,

    the flats and the rising slopes.

  14. Salute those gatherings,

    salute those pilgrim bands,

  15. salute a festival there that sur—

    —passed every other feast,

  16. with men of true loyalty,

    men of noble ancestral lineage,

  17. and lovers of God—

    exalted, the Praiseworthy Protector—

  18. Lord of lords, Possessor of the Thr—

    —one, the Merciful, the Loving.

  19. Ah, could there ever return

    what has passed, O my seeker?

  20. Or will that which has

    gone return, O you who would reclaim it?

  21. Or must this separation last until

    we meet together in the graves,

  22. in hope of the mercy of the Lo—

    —rd, the Generous, the Glorious?

  23. You hope from Him that He will lodge—

    —us in the gardens of eternity,

  24. beside the Chosen Proph—

    —et, the adornment of existence:

  25. Ahmad, the intercessor, ac—

    —cepted on the Day of Coming,

  26. and his pure family,

    who bow and prostrate.

Sol 5.6