أَأَزَاهِيرُ رِيَاضٍ
أَمْ شِفَاءٌ لِعِيَاضِ
Are they gardens’ flowers
Or a healing for the afflicted
جَدَّلَ الْبَاطِلَ لِلْحَقِّ
بِأَسْيَافٍ مَوَاضِي
Falsehood has disputed truth
With polished swords, deceptions
وَجَلاَ الأَنْوَارَ بُرْهَا
ناً بِخُلْفٍ وَافْتِراضِ
And revealed lights intensely
With calumny and pretension
وَشَفَى مَنْ يَشْتَكِي
الغُلَّةَ فِي زُرْقِ الْحِيَاضِ
And healed those who complain
Of coercion in the ponds’ blue
أَيُّ بُنْيَانِ مَعَالٍ
آمِن خَوْفَ انْقِضَاضِ
What building stands secure
Safe from fear of collapse
أَيُّ عَهْدٍ لَيْسَ يُرْمَى
بِانْتِكَاثٍ وَانْتِقَاضِ
What pact is not targeted
With betrayal and violation
وَمَعَانٍ فِي سُطُورٍ
كَأَسُودٍ فِي غِيَاضِ
And meanings in lines
Like lions in thickets
وَشِفَاءٍ لصُدُورٍ
مِنْ ضَنَى الْجَهْلِ مِرَاض
And remedy for breasts
From ignorance’s malady
حَرَّرَ القَصْدَ فَمَا شيِ
نَ بنَقْدٍ وَاعْترَاضِ
It settled the aim, so none
Blamed with critique, objection
يَا أَبَا الْفَضْلِ أَرَى أَنْ
نَ اللهَ عَنْ سَعْيكَ راضِي
O Abu Al-Fadl, I see
That God is pleased with your effort
فَازَ عَبْدٌ أَقْرَضَ الل
هَ بِرُجْحَانِ القِرَاضِ
A servant succeeded, loaned God
Through preference for loans
وَجبَتْ غُرُّ الْمَزَايَا
مِنْ طِوَالٍ أَوْ عِرَاضِ
The pride of traits is owed
To tallness or harness
لَكَ يَا أَصْدَقَ رَاوٍ
لَكَ يَا أَعْدَلَ قَاضِي
For you, O most truthful narrator
For you, O most just judge
لِرَسُول اللهِ وَفّيْ
تَ بِجِدٍّ وَانْتِهَاضِ
You were loyal to the Messenger
With resolve and dedication
خَيْرِ خَلْقِ اللهِ فِي حَا
لٍ وفِي آتٍ وَمَاضِي
The best of God’s creations, in
State, future and past
سَدَّدَ الله ابنَ مَرْزُو
قٍ إِلى تِلْكَ المَرَاضِي
May God help son of Marzuq
To those meadows
زُبْدَةُ الْعرْفَانِ مَعْنَى
كُلّ نُسْكٍ وَارِتيَاضِ
Essence of gnosis, meaning
Of all devotion and exercise
فَتَوَلَّى بَسْطَ مَا أَجْمَلْتَ
مِنْ غَيْرِ انْقِبَاضِ
So he began expanding what
You summarized without shrinking
سَاهِراً لَمْ يَدْرِ فِي اسْتخْ
لاصِهِ طَعْمَ اغْتِمَاض
Staying awake, never experiencing
In his salvation, the taste of fretting
إِن يَكُنْ دَيْناً عَلَى الأَيْ
يَامِ قَدْ حَانَ التَّقَاضِي
If it were debt on days
Then time for repayment draws near
دَامَ فِي عُلْوٍ وَمَنْ عَا
دَاهُ يَهْوِي فِي انْخِفَاضِ
He remains lofty, and he who
Opposed him falls low
مَا وَشَى الصُّبْحُ الدَّيَاجِي
فِي سَوَادٍ بِبَيَاضِ
The dawn has not confided
In darkness with whiteness
