بلبل الأنس حين أقبلت غرد — Shabrawy

بلبل الأنس حينَ أَقبَلَت غَرّد

يا عَزيزاً في عَصرِه قَد تَفَرّد

The nightingale of fellowship sang when you arrived.

O honored one, peerless in his age!

وَالسُرور الَّذي لِبُعدِك وَلى

عادَ مُذ جِئت سالِما وَتجدّد

And the joy that departed because of your absence

Returned when you came safely, and was renewed.

يا فَريدا جَمَعت شَمل المَعالي

بَعد أَن كانَ شَملُها قَد تَبَدّد

O peerless one, you gathered the ranks of noble virtues,

After their ranks had been scattered.

اِنّ دَهرا أَفادَنا مِنكَ قُربا

بَعد بعد دَهر عَلَينا لَهُ النيد

Indeed, an age that granted us nearness to you

After separation—is an age to which we owe [a debt of gratitude].

فَهنيأ لَك الزِيارَة وَالحَج

وَنَيل المُراد في كُلّ مَشهَد

So congratulations on your visitation and pilgrimage,

And on attaining your wish at every sacred site.

قِف وَطف واسِع وارِم بِالعِز وَالنَص

ر جار الرَدّا عَدا وَحَسَد

Stand, circumambulate, hasten, and cast, with glory and victory;

May death oppress foes and envy.

وَاِدخُل البَيتَ آمِنا مُطمَئِنّا

وَاروعن زمزم الزَلال المُبَرّد

And enter the House safe and reassured,

And drink your fill of Zamzam's clear, cooled water.

ثُم عُد سالِما لَنا وَاِلَيهِ

كُل عام تَعود وَالعود أَحمد

Then return safely to us; and to it

May you return every year—returning is more praiseworthy.

وَأَعد مَجلِس الحَديث الَّذي كا

نَ بِعلياك عَقد دَرّ منضد

And restore the gathering of hadith, which was

Through your eminence, a necklace of neatly strung pearls.

مُفرَد العَصر مِن يُضاهيكَ فَخرا

وَلَكَ الفَخرُ في الحَقيقَةِ يُسنَد

Peerless one of the age, who rivals you in glory?

And in truth, glory is ascribed to you.

قَد رويت العُلا عن اِبن كَثير

بِصَحيح من لَفظِه أَو بِمَسند

You have narrated eminence on the authority of Ibn Kathir,

Through an authentic report in his words, or one supported by a chain.

وَنَشَرت الهَوى بِمِجلس فَضل

لَك فيهِ الفُخار بِالجِدّ وَالجدّ

And you spread love in a gathering of excellence,

Where glory is yours through diligence and good fortune.

لَكَم مِنّا في كُل وَقَت دعاء

وَثَناء يَفوح بِالعَدّ وَالنَدّ

For you, from us, are prayers at every hour,

And praise fragrant with [agarwood] and incense.

وَلَنا مِنكَ مَجلس فيه نور

كل مِن جاءَ بسود وَيسعد

And from you we have a gathering filled with light:

Everyone who comes [attains eminence] and finds happiness.

كَم جَمَعنا فيه مَثاني فَضل

وَسَمِعنا فيه مَغاني معبد

How many repeated praises of excellence we gathered there,

And heard there the songs of Ma'bad.

وَاِقتطفنا من روحِه ثَمرات

قَد تناهت فَليس بحصرها العد

And we plucked fruits from its spirit,

Which reached perfection; counting cannot encompass them.

يا رَعى اللَهُ مَجلسا أَنتَ فيه

بَينَ أَهلِ الكَمالِ وَالعلم فَرقَد

Oh, may God preserve a gathering in which you are

The star Farqad among the people of perfection and learning.

مَجلس فيه أَنت بَدر مُنير

وَالاحاديث فيه حَولك تسرد

A gathering where you are a shining full moon,

And hadiths are recounted there around you.

وَشُيوخ الحَديث ما بَينَ راو

عَنك أَو سامِع بِفَضلِك يَشهَد

And the masters of hadith are either narrators

From you, or listeners who attest to your excellence.

قَرّ عَينا فَأَنت لِلمَجد أَهل

أَبَدا لِلّهِ ذا الفُخار وَأَبد

Let your eye find comfort, for you are worthy of glory,

Forever—to God belong this glory and eternity.

حازا سلافك السِيادة قَدما

ثُم آلَت اِلَيكَ بِالفَرضِ وَالرَد

Your forebears gained preeminence long ago,

Then it passed to you by prescribed share and reversion.

يا لَها من سِيادَة أَرّخوها

يوسف العَصر لا تَزال مسيد

What preeminence! They recorded its date:

Yusuf of the age, may you ever remain a master.

زادَك اللَهُ كل مَطلع شَمس

نعما لا تَزال بِالشُكر تَمتَدّ

At every sunrise, may God grant you more

Blessings that never cease to grow through gratitude.