يا بعينيك طر الى بغداد

شفنا الوجد بالنوى والبعاد

Oh, by your eyes, fly to Baghdad!

Longing has wasted us through separation and distance.

تحسب الشوق في فؤادي فرندا

فيه يختال والحسام فؤادي

You would think longing in my heart a blade's watered pattern,

Strutting within it, while my heart is the sword.

حز متن الضلعين مني غرارا

ومنه الشبا عظيم التمادي

Its edge has gashed the ridge of my two ribs,

And its point presses relentlessly onward.

تنثر الدمع مقلتي كاللئالي

والملح الجاري كصوب الغوادي

My eye scatters tears like pearls,

And the flowing brine is like the downpour of morning clouds.

فلقل الركب يا اخا الوجد للزو

راء واجهد بالصافنات الجياد

So rouse the caravan, brother in longing, toward

Al-Zawra, and urge on the poised, noble steeds.

واذا ما وصلت للجانب الشر

في فانزل برحب اهل ودادي

And when you reach the eastern

Side, alight in the spacious abode of those I love.

حضرة الفتح سدة المنح معنى

شيخ اهل العلوم والارشاد

The court of spiritual opening, the threshold of gifts in essence,

The shaykh of the people of learning and guidance;

نور عين المجد الاثيل ملاذي

فارس السادة الطويل النجاد

Light of ancient glory's eye, my refuge,

Knight of the sayyids, long of sword-belt;

نائب المرتضى امين المعالي

في بني المصطفى رفيع العماد

Deputy of al-Murtada, trustee of lofty honors,

Among al-Mustafa's descendants, lofty of pillar;

تاج رأسي الرواس مهديّ آل

هم لعمري نور الهدى للعباد

The crown of my head, al-Rawwas, Mahdi of a household

Who, by my life, are guidance's light for God's servants.

سيد العارفين قطب رحاهم

باهر الفضل طاهر الاجداد

Master of the knowers of God, the pivot of their mill,

Dazzling in excellence, pure in ancestry.

سار في الارض سره بفنون

نشرت في تلاعها والوهاد

His spiritual secret traveled the earth in manifold forms,

Spread across its hills and lowlands.

ذو اياد وهمة ذات بأس

قد حت بالآيات قدح الزناد

A man of favors, with a resolve endowed with might,

Striking forth signs as flints strike fire.

ندبة الملتجي عصام المعالي

فرحة الاهل حيرة الحساد

The one the refuge-seeker invokes, the safeguard of lofty honors,

Joy of his people, bewilderment of the envious.

ادرك العلم وارتقى منه ركنا

بالغا فيه رتبة الاجتهاد

He attained knowledge and ascended its pillar,

Reaching in it the rank of independent legal reasoning.

وكراماته الجليلة جلت

عن بلوغ الاحصاء والتعداد

And his majestic saintly wonders are too great

For reckoning and enumeration to encompass.

شيم كالسحاب يسقي هشيم الا

رض حتى تهتز بالاوراد

Virtues like clouds watering the withered growth of

The earth, until it stirs with roses.

وخوافي اسرار غيب لقد غزت

بعين الجحود شوك القتاد

And the hidden depths of unseen secrets have indeed thrust

The thorns of qatad into denial's eye.

ومعان حلت قلوب الاعالي

كحلول الارواح في الاجساد

And spiritual meanings have settled in the hearts of the exalted,

As spirits dwell within bodies.

هو في العصر اذ تعد رجال

الله لاشك اول الاعداد

He, in this age, when one counts the men of

God, is undoubtedly the first in the reckoning.

الف الزهد عن ترفع نفس

فهو في القوم سيد الزهاد

He embraced asceticism from loftiness of soul,

Thus among the company he is master of the ascetics.

كعبة الامن للمريد وباب ال

خير والبر مظهر الاسعاد

A Kaaba of safety for the seeker, and the gate of

Goodness and kindness, a source of happiness.

غمرتني منه الايادي ومهد

يّ بني احمد عميم الايادي

His favors have overwhelmed me; and Mahdi

Of Ahmad's descendants is boundless in his favors.

باهر الخارقات شيخي بهاء الد

ين غوثي وعمدتي وعتادي

Dazzling in wonders, my shaykh Baha al-Din,

My succor, my mainstay, and my armament;

وحسامي به اصول على الده

ر واسطو على الزمان العادي

And my sword, with which I charge against

Fate and assail the hostile age.

مدحه عطر كل سفر شريف

ومثاني معناه مسك المداد

Praise of him perfumes every noble volume,

And the refrains of its meaning are the musk of ink.

كم ليال قطعتها والمغني

منشدي مدحه بطيب سهاد

How many nights I spent, while the singer

Chanted his praise to me through sweet wakefulness,

في اويقات سكرة واصطلام

خلت اوقاتها من الاعياد

In brief moments of intoxication and self-effacement,

Whose hours I counted among the feast days.

في ضواحي فروق جسمي وقلبي

يتهادى بجانبي بغداد

My body is on the outskirts of Furuq, while my heart

Glides gently along the two sides of Baghdad,

بين موسى ابن جعفر الآل ذخري

والامام المهدي آل الهادي

Between Musa ibn Ja'far of the House, my treasure,

And Imam al-Mahdi of al-Hadi's House.

يا مثير الركبان والحب دين

حي عني قيعان ذاك النادي

O you who rouse the riders—love is a faith—

Greet for me the level grounds of that gathering place.

وترفق لطفا بحالي فاني

فتكت بي ظباء تالت البوادي

And gently take pity on my plight, for I

Have been ravaged by gazelles of the deserts [one word unclear].

همت بالحي معظما كل ذي طم

ر ين فيه اجل بط السواد

I fell in love with the quarter, honoring every wearer of

Two tattered garments there; I revere the ducks of al-Sawad.

يا لحي يحوى العجائب فيه

عطش العاشقين ري الصادي

Oh, what a quarter, holding wonders! Within it,

The lovers' thirst is the quenching of the thirsty.

طلسم الحال كشف رمز التجلي

حفلة الريم غابة الآساد

The talisman of the spiritual state is the unveiling of manifestation's cipher;

The gathering of gazelles is a forest of lions.

ورحاب المهدي شبل الرفاعي

سكرتي صحوتي محل اعتقادي

And the courts of al-Mahdi, the lion-cub of al-Rifa'i,

Are my intoxication, my sobriety, the seat of my belief.

ابعث الروح كل يوم اليه

واراها تعود بالامداد

I send my spirit to him each day,

And see it return with spiritual aid.

يا غريب الطراز يا روح روحي

يا امام العرفان والارشاد

O you of matchless pattern, O spirit of my spirit,

O imam of gnosis and guidance!

صدت كل المفاخر البيض طورا

وكذا من يؤل للصياد

You hunted down every radiant honor in turn,

And so does whoever belongs to al-Sayyad.

قد بحملي وارفع إلى الله سرا

بشؤني شفاعة الامجاد

Carry my burden onward, and raise in secret to God

The intercession of the noble concerning my affairs.

فلكم هذه المناقب قدما

ورتتها الاباء للاولاد

For these virtues have been yours from of old,

Bequeathed by the fathers to their children.

وعليكم بآل النبي سلام الله

دهرا ما صاح في الركب حادي

And upon you, by the Prophet's House, be God's peace

Forever, so long as a camel-driver calls among the riders,

وانجلت طلعة الصباح بنور

مشرق في الاغوار والانجاد

And morning's face is unveiled with a light

Shining in the lowlands and uplands.