صحا قلبي واقصر بعد غيٍّ

صحا قلبي واقصر بعد غيٍّ

طويل كان فيه من الغواني

طويل كان فيه من الغواني

My heart came to its senses and desisted after waywardness,

My heart is now serene, after long ignorance

Long endured on account of beautiful women,

In which I indulged in youthful passions.

بأن قصدَ السبيل فباع جهلاً

بأن قصدَ السبيل فباع جهلاً

برُشدٍ وارتجى عُقبى الزمانِ

برُشدٍ وارتجى عُقبى الزمانِ

By following the path and trading folly

For I set out on the right path, selling ignorance

For right guidance, hoping for a good end to life.

For guidance, hoping for the best from time.

وخاف الموت واعتصم ابن حجرٍ

وخاف الموت واعتصم ابن حجرٍ

من الحبِّ المُبرّح بالجنانِ

من الحبِّ المُبرّح بالجنانِ

And Ibn Hujr feared death and guarded himself

The son of Hajar now fears death and holds fast

Against love that torments the heart.

To the Quran, not to the fleeting gardens.

وقِدماً كانَ معترماً جموحاً

وقِدماً كانَ معترماً جموحاً

إلى لذّاته سلِسَ العنانِ

إلى لذّاته سلِسَ العنانِ

And formerly he had been unruly and headstrong,

His feet once stubbornly went

Toward his pleasures, readily yielding to the rein.

Towards worldly pleasures, loose-reined.

واقلع بعد حبوتهِ وأضحى

واقلع بعد حبوتهِ وأضحى

طويلَ الليل يهرِف بالقُرانِ

طويلَ الليل يهرِف بالقُرانِ

And he desisted after his knees-clasped repose—an uncertain expression here—and came to spend

But after enjoying them, he renounced

Long nights reciting the Qur’an at length,

And spends the long night reciting Quran,

ويدعو اللَه مُجتهداً لكيما

ويدعو اللَه مُجتهداً لكيما

ينالَ الفوزَ من غُرف الجنان

ينالَ الفوزَ من غُرف الجنان

And praying earnestly to God, so that

Calling on God relentlessly that he might

He might attain salvation among the chambers of Paradise.

Attain salvation in the rooms of Paradise.