لكَ نحوَ أرضِ العربِ لحظُ

لكَ نحوَ أرضِ العربِ لحظُ

أَهَواكَ قيصومٌ وقرظُ

أَهَواكَ قيصومٌ وقرظُ

Your gaze turns toward the land of the Arabs.

Towards the land of Arabs you have a moment's glance,

Is it fragrant yarrow and acacia you love?

Does love of tribe Qais or Jurhum entrance?

كَلّا ولكن ثمّ أح

كَلّا ولكن ثمّ أح

بابٌ لهُم في القلب حفظُ

بابٌ لهُم في القلب حفظُ

No, but there are beloved ones there,

Nay, but then love awoke

whose memory is kept within the heart.

For them a chamber in the heart's expanse

فَعَسى يكونُ بِقربهم

فَعَسى يكونُ بِقربهم

لي عندَ خير الخلق حظُّ

لي عندَ خير الخلق حظُّ

So perhaps, through nearness to them,

Mayhap in their nearness

I may find favor with the best of creation:

For me is the best of mankind's chance

روحُ الوجودِ محمّد ال

روحُ الوجودِ محمّد ال

محمودُ لا كظٌّ وفظُّ

محمودُ لا كظٌّ وفظُّ

the spirit of existence, Muhammad,

The spirit of existence, Muhammad

the praised one, neither coarse nor harsh.

Praised, neither coarse nor dense

طَبعٌ أرقُّ من النسي

طَبعٌ أرقُّ من النسي

مِ بهِ على الكفّار غلظُ

مِ بهِ على الكفّار غلظُ

A nature gentler than the breeze,

A nature gentler than the soft fine silk

yet in him is sternness toward the unbelievers.

With it harsh to unbelievers, else intense

راضٍ بِما رضي الإلَ

راضٍ بِما رضي الإلَ

هُ وَما به لسواه غيظُ

هُ وَما به لسواه غيظُ

Content with what God approves,

Content with what Allah content

and harboring no anger except for His sake.

And with what else discontented and incensed

لا الحَرُّ حَرٌّ عندهُ

لا الحَرُّ حَرٌّ عندهُ

في حبّه لا القيظ قيظُ

في حبّه لا القيظ قيظُ

For him, heat is no heat;

Neither is heat hot for him

in his love, summer's heat is no summer's heat.

In his love, nor the sultry heat intense

مَهما عَراه من أمو

مَهما عَراه من أمو

رِ الدهرِ لا يعروه بهظُ

رِ الدهرِ لا يعروه بهظُ

Whatever befalls him of the affairs

However much the calamities of fate

of time, no crushing burden overtakes him.

Bare him, they leave him unblemished thence

فاقَ الكلامَ جميعهُ

فاقَ الكلامَ جميعهُ

لِكتابهِ معنىً ولفظُ

لِكتابهِ معنىً ولفظُ

All speech has been surpassed

He surpassed all speech entirely

by his Book's meaning and wording.

In his book, meaning and elegance

وَقدِ اِستَوى ببيانهِ

وَقدِ اِستَوى ببيانهِ

قصصٌ وأحكامٌ ووعظُ

قصصٌ وأحكامٌ ووعظُ

And equally eloquent are its

And his eloquence encompassed

stories, rulings, and exhortation.

Stories, judgments and admonishments