لي في نوالك يا مولاي آمال — Al Burai

لي في نوالك يا مَولاي آمال

من حيث لا يَنفَع الاهلون وَالمال

My hopes rest in Your bounty, O my Lord,

Where neither family nor wealth can help.

أوصى اليك لعلمي أن لطفك بي

دون الوَرى لَم يحل عني اذا حالوا

I entrust myself to You, knowing that Your kindness toward me,

Unlike that of mortals, has not left me when they turned away.

فارض عني خصومي واقض يا أَملي

ديني فان حقوق الخلق أَثقال

So appease my adversaries on my behalf, and settle, O my hope,

My debt, for people's claims are heavy burdens.

وَلَم يضق بي منك العفوان ختمت

لي بالشهادة أَقوال وَأَفعال

And Your pardon is not too narrow for me, if You seal

My words and deeds with the testimony of faith.

كن لي اذا أَغمضوا عيني وانصرفوا

باكين أسمع منهم كل ما قالوا

Stand by me when they close my eyes and depart,

Weeping, as I hear everything they say.

وامنن بروح وَريحان عَلى اذا

ضاق الخناق فهول الموت أَهوال

And grant me repose and fragrant basil when

The throat tightens, for death's terror is many terrors.

وَجاءَني ملك الموت الموكل بي

وَبالنفوس فللاعمار آجال

And the angel of death comes to me, appointed over me

And over souls—for lifespans have appointed ends.

واستخرج النفس أَملاك مطهرة

لها إِلى لطفك المأمول ترحال

And purified angels draw out the soul,

Whose journey is toward Your hoped-for kindness.

جاؤا اليك با يا رب بقدمها

لحضرة القدس جبريل وَميكال

They came to You with it, O Lord, leading it [reading uncertain],

To the holy presence—Gabriel and Michael.

ثم اِنثَنَت عَن قَريب نحو مغتسل

في حيث يَرجوك مغسول وَغسال

Then it soon turned back toward a washing place,

Where both the one washed and the washer hope in You.

وَلَيسَ لي وَلمثلي غير جودك يا

من لا تدانيه أَشباه وَأَمثال

Neither I nor those like me have anything but Your generosity, O

One whom no likenesses or equals can approach.

أَصبحت بين يديك اليوم مطرحا

وَلي بِنَفسي عَن الاغيار أَشغال

Today I lie cast down before You,

Preoccupied with myself rather than with others.

فأولني يا غفور العفو منك فَلا

يبقى عَلى من الاوزار مثقال

So grant me Your pardon, O All-Forgiving One, so that

No weight of sins remains upon me.

وان نزلت الى بيت الخراب وَلا

أب هناكوَلا عم وَلا خال

And if I descend into the house of ruin, with no

Father there, no paternal uncle, and no maternal uncle,

وعاودت حَرَكاتي وَهي ساكنة

وَلا عدوّ يعاديني وَلا مال

And I resume my movements though they are still,

With no enemy to oppose me and no wealth,

أَلهمني يا خالقي ذكر الجواب فَفي

ذاكَ المقام جوابات وَتسآل

Inspire me, O my Creator, to remember the answer, for in

That place there are answers and questioning.

هناك لا أَمل يرجى وَلا عَمَل

يَجزي وَلا حيلة عندي فأحتال

There no hope can be looked for, and no deed

Can avail, nor have I a stratagem to devise.

افتح لروحي الفردوس باب رضا

يَهدي رياحرياض طلها ضال

Open for my soul a gate of favor into Paradise,

It guides garden breezes; their dew is astray [text unclear].

والطف وَرائي باطفال وامهم

ان كانَ خَلقي أَو بلاد وأَطفال

And be kind, after me, to the children and their mother,

If my creation was—or lands and children [text unclear].

حَتّى إِذا نشر الاموات واِرتعدت

فَرائص الخلق من بعض الَّذي نالوا

Until, when the dead are raised and

Creation's flanks tremble at some of what befalls them,

وَعادَت الروح في الجسم الضَعيف وَقَد

تفرقت منه أَعضاء وأوصال

And the soul returns to the frail body, whose

Limbs and joints have been scattered,

مربى الصراط إِلى حوض ابن آمنة

لاستقى منه ريا فهو سلسال

Take me across the Sirat to the pool of Aminah's son,

So I may drink my fill from it, for it is sweet-flowing water.

يا واسع اللطف قد قدمت معذرتي

ان كانَ يغنى عن التَفصيل اجمال

O You whose kindness is boundless, I have offered my excuse,

If a summary can suffice in place of detail.

فجد عَلي ولا طفني بعفوك عن

ذَنبي فشأنك انعام وافضال

So be generous to me and treat me gently by pardoning

My sin, for Your way is beneficence and bounty.

وَقل كفيتك يا عَبد الرَحيم أَذى

الدارين فانزل حمى ما فيه اهمال

And say, 'I have spared you, O Abd al-Rahim, the harm

Of both abodes; enter a sanctuary where there is no neglect.'

واجنبني العجب وَالشح المطاع وَمر

نَفسي تخالف هواها فهو قنال

Keep me from conceit and avarice obeyed, and command

My soul to resist its desire, for it is deadly [reading uncertain].

وعد عَلى بنور منك مبتهج

يَزكو به بصري وَالسمع وَالبال

And favor me anew with a radiant light from You,

By which my sight, hearing, and mind grow pure.

وارحم نبيّ وآبائي وَحاشيَتي

يعمهم با الهي منك اقبال

And have mercy on a prophet, my forefathers, and my household,

May Your favor, O my God, embrace them all.

ماذا أَقول ومني كل معصية

وَمنك يا سَيدي حلم وامهال

What can I say, when every disobedience comes from me,

And from You, my Master, come forbearance and respite?

ومن أَكون وَما قدري وَما عَمَلي

في يوم توضع في الميزان أَعمال

Who am I, what is my worth, and what is my deed

On the day when deeds are placed in the balance?

وَهَل يطيق خلودا في لظى بشير

من نطفة اصلها المسكين صلصال

And can Bashir endure eternity in blazing fire—

A poor soul, from a drop of seed whose origin is dry clay?

ام كيف ييأس من روح الاله غدا

عبد عليه من الاسلام سربال

Or how could one despair of God's relief tomorrow—

A servant clothed in the garment of Islam?

رباه رباه أَنتَ اللَه معتمدي

في كل حال اذا حالَت بي الحال

My Lord, my Lord, You are God, my reliance

In every state, whenever my circumstances change.

ثم الصَلاة عَلى المختار من مضر

ما لاحَ في الغورال بعده آل

Then blessings upon the chosen one of Mudar,

As long as a mirage gleams in the lowland and beyond it [text unclear],

يس خاتم رسل اللَه كلهم

وَالصحب والآل ثم الصحب والآل

Ya-Sin, the seal of all God's messengers,

And upon the companions and family, then the companions and family.