1. أيا رب يا الله يا بارئ النسيم

    ويا رب يا وهاب يا مجري القسم

    O Lord, O God, O Creator of the breeze;

    And O Lord, O Bestower, O Distributor of portions;

  2. ويا دائم المعروف يا مجزل العطا

    ويا مولى النعما ويا دافع النعم

    And O Constant in kindness, O Lavish Giver;

    And O Master of favors, O Dispenser of blessings;

  3. ويا عدل يا ديان يا ملك الورى

    ويا حي يا قيوم يا حق يا حكم

    And O Just One, O Requiter, O King of creation;

    And O Ever-Living, O Sustainer, O Truth, O Arbiter;

  4. ويا نور يا قدوس يا من جلاله

    تقدس عمن شبه أو عطل أو رسم

    And O Light, O Holy One, O You whose majesty

    Is sanctified beyond those who liken, deny attributes, or delineate You;

  5. ويا بر يا معبود يا من كماله

    تنزه عما في الخواطر يرتسم

    And O Beneficent One, O Worshipped One, O You whose perfection

    Is exalted beyond anything pictured in thoughts;

  6. ويا ذا الجلال المحض والعز والبقا

    ويا ذا النوال الجم والجود والكرم

    And O Possessor of pure majesty, might, and everlastingness;

    And O Possessor of abundant bounty, generosity, and nobility;

  7. ويا مبدع الأكوان من غير علة

    ويا موجد الأشياء من عدم العدم

    And O Originator of the worlds without a cause;

    And O Bringer of things into being from the nothingness of nothingness;

  8. ويا خالق الإنسان من فيض نطفة

    ومبدعه في ظلمة الرحم الأحم

    And O Creator of humankind from the outpouring of a drop of seed;

    And its Fashioner in the womb's pitch-black darkness;

  9. ويا رازق الحيتان والطير في الهوى

    ووحش الفلا والإنس والجن والنعم

    And O Provider for the fish and the birds in the air,

    And the wilderness beasts, humankind, jinn, and cattle;

  10. ويا باسط الأرضين يا رافع السما

    ويا منبت المرعى ويا مرسل الديم

    And O Spreader of the earths, O Raiser of heaven;

    And O Grower of pasture, O Sender of steady rains;

  11. ويا ملجم البحر المحيط بما يشا

    ويا مرسي الأرض البسيطة بالأكم

    And O Bridler of the encircling sea as He wills;

    And O Anchoring One who steadies the outspread earth with hills;

  12. ويا خالق الاصباح يا مسبل الدجى

    ويا مرشد الأعمى ويا مفهم الأصم

    And O Creator of dawn, O Draper of darkness;

    And O Guide of the blind, O Giver of understanding to the deaf;

  13. ويا محمى الأنفاس يا منشىء الحجى

    ويا منعش الأرواح يا محيي الرمم

    And O Guardian of breaths, O Originator of intellect;

    And O Reviver of spirits, O Giver of life to decayed bones;

  14. ويا من يرى الذر المهين إذا حشا

    على الصخرة الصما في حالة الظلم

    And O You who see the tiny, lowly ants when they creep

    Upon the solid rock in the depths of darkness;

  15. ويا سامع الصوات يا من ببابه

    أناخ دووا الحاجات واستمطروا النعم

    And O Hearer of sounds, O You at whose door

    Those with needs encamp and seek a rain of blessings;

  16. ويا عالم الأسرار يا موضح الهدى

    ويا منزل القرآن يا مظهر الحكم

    And O Knower of secrets, O Clarifier of guidance;

    And O Revealer of the Qur'an, O Discloser of wisdom;

  17. ويا من أجاب البر آدم إذ دعا

    وتاب عليه وارتضاه أب الأمم

    And O You who answered righteous Adam when he called,

    And turned to him in forgiveness and chose him as father of nations;

  18. ويا من رعى في الفلك نوحا وآله

    وأغرق بالطوفان من عبد الصنم

    And O You who protected Noah and his family in the ark,

    And drowned in the flood those who worshipped the idol;

  19. ويا من أعاد النار بردا لعبد

    الخليل ورقى جسمه من لظى الضرم

    And O You who turned fire into coolness for a servant,

    Al-Khalil, and shielded his body from the flaming blaze;

  20. ويا من فدى بالذبح نجل خليله

    ويا من جلى عن قلب يعقوبه الغمم

    And O You who ransomed the son of Your intimate friend with a sacrifice;

    And O You who dispelled sorrows from the heart of Your Jacob;

  21. ويا من كفى في الجب يوسفا باسه

    ويا من شفى أيوب من معضل السقم

    And O You who spared Joseph his distress in the well;

    And O You who healed Job of intractable illness;

  22. ويا من وقى ذا النون في بطن حوته

    ويا من كفى داود ما عز من ألم

    And O You who protected Dhu al-Nun in the belly of his fish;

    And O You who spared David whatever pain grew severe;

  23. ويا من وقى موسى الكليم من الردى

    ويا من كفى عيسى بن مريم كل هم

    And O You who protected Moses, Your interlocutor, from death;

    And O You who spared Jesus, son of Mary, every grief;

  24. ويا من حمى في الغار طه من العدا

    وأنقذه من كيد من جار واحتكم

    And O You who protected Ta Ha from enemies in the cave,

    And rescued him from the schemes of those who oppressed and asserted power;

  25. ويا ملجأ المضطر يا عون من دعا

    ويا من نجا المعتز يا غوث ذي الأمم

    And O Refuge of the distressed, O Helper of whoever calls;

    And O You who saved the seeker of strength, O Succor of the lord of nations;

  26. ويا منهل الرواد يا مروي الظما

    ويا مقصد الضيفان يا سابغ النعم

    And O Watering Place of seekers, O Quencher of the thirsty;

    And O Destination of guests, O You whose blessings abound;

  27. ببابك عبد واقف يبتغي القرى

    فهل من قرى للضيف فالضيف قد ألم

    At Your door a servant stands, seeking hospitality;

    Is there hospitality for the guest? The guest has arrived.

  28. ولو لا أولى الانعام والجود ما نجا

    أخو العدم المأسور في رفقة النقم

    Were it not for the givers of favor and generosity, there would be no escape

    For the needy man held captive in the company of afflictions.

  29. فأحسن قراي يا كريم فإنني

    تطفلت والتطفيل حيلة ذي العدم

    Make my welcome gracious, O Generous One, for I

    Have come uninvited; coming uninvited is the needy man's resource.

  30. وحاش الكريم البر أن يطرد امرىءا

    أقام على التطفيل في ساحة الكرم

    Far be it from the generous, kindly one to drive away a man

    Who persists in coming uninvited into generosity's courtyard.

  31. ولم أعتمد الا شفاعة أحمد

    وهل خاب من يرجو المشفع في الأمم

    I have relied only on Ahmad's intercession;

    Has anyone failed who hopes in the accepted intercessor among nations?

  32. وكيف يخيب القصد في من لأجله

    برى الله ما في الكون من سائر النسم

    How could the quest fail with him for whose sake

    God created all the living souls in existence?

  33. فلا تخزني يا رب واقبل توسلي

    بجاه الحبيب المصطفى الأشرف الهمم

    Do not disgrace me, O Lord, and accept my entreaty

    Through the standing of the beloved Chosen One, noblest in aspiration.

  34. فلي بامتداحي فيه ذمة مادح

    ومن شيم الأشراف رعي ذوي الذمم

    Through my praise of him, I have a praiser's claim to protection;

    Among the traits of the noble is safeguarding those under covenant.

  35. وقد صرت مشهورا بمدح جنابه

    ومن يمدح الأجواد يكرم ويحترم

    I have become known for praising his august person;

    Whoever praises the generous is honored and respected.

  36. وما ذاك من حولي ولا هو قوتي

    ولكنه من فضل من قدر القسم

    That is not from my power, nor is it my strength,

    But from the bounty of the One who decreed the portions.

  37. أفاض بقلبي نور مدح حبيبه

    وانطقني فيه بدر قد انتظم

    He poured into my heart the light of praising His beloved,

    And made me speak of him with pearls strung together;

  38. ورد لساني آلة لمديحه

    وألوم قلبي حرفة الحب فالتزم

    And made my tongue an instrument for his praise;

    And I reproach my heart for love's calling; it holds fast.

  39. وذلك فضل الله يؤتيه من يشا

    ويا لك فضلا لا يقال له بكم

    That is God's bounty, which He grants to whom He wills;

    And what a bounty, whose price cannot be asked!

  40. فبالشعب بالمسعى بمرورة بالصفا

    وبالحجر بالأركان بالبيت يالحرم

    So, by the ravine, by al-Mas'a, by Marurah, by al-Safa,

    And by the Stone, by the corners, by the House, by the Sacred Precinct,

  41. وبالطور بالأقصى بيثرب بالحمى

    يغار حرا بالخيف بالسفح بالعلم

    And by al-Tur, by al-Aqsa, by Yathrib, by the sanctuary,

    By Hira's cave, by al-Khayf, by the slope, by the waymark,

  42. وبالبدر وبالديجور بالنجم بالعلا

    وبالعرش بالكرسي باللوح بالقلم

    And by the full moon, by pitch darkness, by the star, by the heights,

    And by the Throne, by the Seat, by the Tablet, by the Pen,

  43. وبالملك وبالأفلاك بالشمس بالضحى

    وبالوعد ثم الريح بالبرق بالديم

    And by dominion, by the spheres, by the sun, by morning brightness,

    And by the promise, then the wind, by lightning, by steady rains:

  44. فسل عنه أحزابا وبدرا وخيبرا

    وسل أحدا واحك الوقائع عنهم

    Ask al-Ahzab, Badr, and Khaybar about him;

    And ask Uhud, and recount the battles from them.

  45. أبان للعصاة ببدر مصارعا

    فما لبثوا أن جاوزوها ودمدموا

    He showed the disobedient their places of death at Badr;

    Before long they passed them and were utterly crushed.

  46. وقال وجدت الوعد حقا فهل كما

    وجدناه يا أهل القليب وجدتم

    He said, 'I found the promise true; have you, as

    We found it, O people of the well, found it too?'

  47. فعاديه في نار الجحيم معذب

    وعافيه في دار النعيم منعم

    His enemy is tormented in the fire of Hell;

    His seeker of bounty enjoys bliss in the abode of delight.

  48. أقام صلاة الحرب قائم سيفه

    فصلوا صلاة الخائفين وسلموا

    His sword's hilt established the prayer of war;

    They prayed the prayer of the fearful and surrendered.

  49. ومدهم سوق الحتوف ليشتروا

    بسمر هوان سعرته جهنم

    He supplied them with a market of deaths, to buy

    With dusky spears a humiliation priced by Hell.

  50. وذوقهم سم الطعان بأسمر

    وأسمره في الحرب لا شك أرقم

    He made them taste the poison of thrusts with a dusky spear;

    His dusky spear in battle is surely a speckled snake.

  51. رمى كل شيطان بشهب نباله

    ولا بدع فالشيطان بالشهب يرجم

    He shot every devil with the meteors of his arrows;

    No wonder: the devil is pelted with meteors.

  52. جلا الزيغ والأهوا بأبيض سيفه

    وللشرك طرف في وفي البغي أدهم

    He dispelled deviation and caprices with his sword's white blade;

    And idolatry has a steed in [unclear], and in tyranny a black one.

  53. وللرمح كف بالنجيع مخضب

    وللسيف ثغر بالدماء ملثم

    The spear has a hand dyed with fresh blood;

    The sword has a mouth veiled with blood.

  54. وللجو فرق بالأسنة أشيب

    وللنقع فرع بالعجاجة أسحم

    The sky has a hair-parting made gray by spearheads;

    The dustcloud has a forelock black with swirling dust.

  55. بكى بالدما هنديه وهو ضاحك

    ومن عجب يبكي الدما وهو يبسم

    His Indian blade wept blood while laughing;

    How wondrous: it weeps blood while it smiles!

  56. وخط بوقع البيض في أوجه العدا

    حروف حتوف بالأسنة تعجم

    With blows of white blades he wrote on the enemies' faces

    Letters of death, dotted with spearheads.

  57. ووارى عن الأعداء سلم فوزهم

    فليس لهم نحو المفاوز سلم

    He concealed from the enemies the ladder of their deliverance;

    They have no ladder toward the desert wastes.

  58. وفي ساحة البلوى أضاف جموعهم

    بعامل خفض فعله ليس يحزم

    In the arena of trial he hosted their multitudes

    With an agent of abasement whose action does not bind.

  59. فليس لهم إلا الرزية مشرب

    وليس لهم إلا المبنة مطعم

    They have no drink but calamity;

    And they have no food but [death?].

  60. وأثخنهم ضربا وطعنا فأهلكوا

    ومن ذا الذي مما قضى الله يسلم

    He grievously wounded them with blows and thrusts, and they were destroyed;

    Who can escape unharmed from what God has decreed?

  61. أتته مفاتيح الكنوز فردها

    وآب بخزي وجهها المتجهم

    The keys of treasures came to him, and he rejected them;

    Their scowling face returned in disgrace.

  62. ولم يله علياه تزخرف حسنها

    وهل هي إلا جيفة تتجسم

    The adornment of their beauty did not distract him from his lofty stature;

    Are they anything but a carcass taking bodily form?

  63. وزفت له الدنيا عروس حلابها

    فقال لها ميلي فحلك يحرم

    The world was escorted to him as a bride with her milk-yield;

    He said to her, 'Turn away; your lawful enjoyment is forbidden.'

  64. فيا طالب الدنيا يجمع حطامها

    ستترك ما جمعته يوم تحكم

    O seeker of the world, gathering its rubble,

    You will leave what you gathered on the day you are judged.

  65. ألم تر أن الناس غفل عن الردى

    وأن المنايا بينهم تتوسم

    Have you not seen that people are heedless of death,

    And that deaths search them out in their midst?

  66. أيحسب دهري أنني خاضع له

    وأنت ملاذي ساء ما يتوهم

    Does my age suppose that I am submissive to it,

    When You are my refuge? How ill is its imagining!

  67. وقد ضمني سامي حماك وحبذا

    مناخ على الإحسان والبر يوسم

    Your lofty sanctuary has embraced me; how fine

    A resting place marked by kindness and benevolence!

  68. فلا تقصيني يا رب وارحم تذللي

    فإنك رحمن تولى وترحم

    Do not banish me, O Lord, and have mercy on my humility;

    For You are All-Merciful: You take care and show mercy.

  69. ولا تخز وجهي يا كريم وجازني

    مفضلك أزكى والمواهب أكرم

    Do not disgrace my face, O Generous One, and requite me;

    Your bounty is purer, and the gifts more generous.

  70. تحملت أوزارا ثقالا حمولها

    بأيسرها الظهر الممتن يقصم

    I have borne burdens whose loads are heavy;

    Even the lightest of them breaks a sturdy back.

  71. وسودت وجهي بالذنوب وكيف لي

    بعذر وقد أصبحت بالذنب ألجم

    I have blackened my face with sins; how can I have

    An excuse, when I have become bridled by sin?

  72. وإن أك قد جئت العظائم كلها

    فعفوك عن تلك العظائم أعظم

    Even if I have committed all the enormities,

    Your pardon for those enormities is greater.

  73. فيا رب يا الله كن لي ولا تكن

    علي إذا ضاق الفضا المتعتم

    O Lord, O God, be for me, and do not be

    Against me when the darkened expanse grows narrow.

  74. فحقق رجاء ابن الخلوف فقلبه

    سليم وحسن الظن فيك أسلم

    Fulfill Ibn al-Khuluf's hope, for his heart

    Is sound; and thinking well of You is sounder still.

  75. ويسر لي الذكرى وسهل مذاهبي

    لخير به عني المكاره تحسم

    Ease remembrance for me, and smooth my paths

    Toward goodness through which troubles are cut off from me.

  76. ونور بنور العلم قلبي وعشني

    بنعماك علي بالنعيم أنعم

    Illuminate my heart with the light of knowledge, and sustain me

    With Your favors, that I may rejoice in bliss.

  77. وخلص علي خير وجد لي بتوبة

    تحط بها الأوزار عني وتحطم

    Confer pure good upon me, and grant me repentance

    Through which burdens are lifted from me and shattered.

  78. وسلم ووف الدين عني ونجني

    من الكيد والأهوان فأنت المسلم

    Safeguard me, pay my debt on my behalf, and rescue me

    From schemes and humiliations, for You are the Giver of safety.

  79. وديم على الأشياخ ديموم رحمة

    تخصص آبائي بها وتعمم

    Rain a lasting shower of mercy upon the elders,

    Singling out my fathers for it, yet extending it to all.

  80. وكرم أصيحابي ونسلي واخوتي

    فأنت الكريم المستماح المكرم

    Honor my dear companions, my descendants, and my brothers;

    For You are the Generous One, sought for gifts, the Bestower of honor.

  81. وكن لجميع المسلمين وجازهم

    بعدن وجنبهم لظى تتطرم

    Be for all Muslims, and recompense them

    With Eden, and keep them from fiercely blazing flame.

  82. وخذ بيدي أخذا كريما حلني

    بخاتم إحسان به أتختم

    Take me by the hand with a gracious grasp; adorn me

    With a ring of kindness that I may wear.

  83. وصل وسلم ثم بارك موصلا

    على المصطفى ما عظم الله مسلم

    Send blessings and peace, then bless unceasingly

    The Chosen One, as long as a Muslim magnifies God.

  84. وصلى على الأملاك والرسل كلهم

    وآل التقى ما جنب الحل محرم

    And bless all the angels and messengers,

    And the people of piety, so long as a consecrated pilgrim avoids what is otherwise lawful.