1. لا عين العين فعل البيض والاسل

    لَولا امتزاج الثغور اللعس بالعسل

    The eyes of wide-eyed maidens would do the work of swords and spears,

    but for their dark-lipped mouths being mingled with honey.

  2. تَرمي حواجبها قلب المشوق بها

    فَتسلب اللب بالتَدعيج وَالكحل

    Her eyebrows shoot at the heart of the man who longs for her,

    and steal his wits with deep-dark eyes and kohl.

  3. نزلنبالحب حبات القلوب فما

    رحلن الابو جد غير مرتحل

    They settled through love in the hearts' innermost cores, and never

    departed without leaving a longing that would not depart.

  4. رفقا بذي شجن ذاق الهَوى فرمت

    به الصبابة بين العذر وَالعذل

    Have mercy on a sorrowing man who tasted love, then was flung

    by yearning between excuse and reproach.

  5. يَبكي لنار بأكناف الحمى وَقدت

    وَلمع برق بذات البان مشتعل

    He weeps for a fire kindled about the sanctuary,

    and a flash of lightning blazing at Dhat al-Ban.

  6. وَبندب الطلل المَهجور من اضم

    فدمعه طلل في ذلك الطَلل

    And he laments the deserted ruins at Idam;

    his tears are dew upon that ruined campsite.

  7. وَكلمااِشتغلت بالسجع ساجعة

    في الغور اغرته بالتَسجيع وَالغَزل

    And whenever a cooing bird busies herself with song,

    in the lowlands, she lures him into rhymes and love-verse.

  8. ما ضر ايام نجد أَن تَعود لَنا

    بجمع شمل عَلى اللذات مشتمل

    What would it cost the days of Najd to return to us

    with a reunion embracing every delight?

  9. أَيام انسى برضوانية رضعت

    در الصبا في رياض الدل وَالكَسل

    The days of my joy with a Ridwani maiden, suckled

    on youth's milk in gardens of coquetry and languor.

  10. شمس مقلدة شهب النجوم فَما

    شهب النجوم وَما شمس بلا طفل

    A sun wearing the bright stars as a necklace—but what

    are the bright stars, and what sun is free of dusk?

  11. بَيضاء حورية نورية جمعت

    محاسن الحسن بين الحلي وَالحلل

    Fair, houri-like, luminous, she gathers

    all beauty's charms amid jewels and robes.

  12. سحارة الطرف ان لاحَت مَلامحها

    يوما لذي العقل أَمسى مطلق العقل

    An enchantress of the gaze: if her features appear

    one day to a man of reason, he ends it with his wits untethered.

  13. تَهتَز عطفا كخوط البان مال به

    مرّ النَسيم وحلى الغصن دامل

    Her flank sways like a tender bough of ban, bent by

    the passing breeze; the bough's adornment is [unclear in the text].

  14. كَم لامَني في هَواها اللائمون وَقَد

    رضيتها حكما عدلا عَلى وَلي

    How often have reproachers blamed me for loving her, though

    I accepted her as a just arbiter, whether against me or for me.

  15. وان نأت دارَها عَني شددت عرا

    ظني بيعتي وَلي اللَه خير وَلي

    Though her dwelling lies far from me, I tighten the bonds

    of my trust and allegiance; God's friend is the best protector:

  16. محمد بن عَلي خير من نزلت

    به الوفود لنيل الجود بعد علي

    Muhammad ibn Ali, the best of those to whom

    delegations come in quest of bounty, after Ali.

  17. الصالح البدل ابن الصالح البدل

    ابن الصالح البدلابن الصالح البدل

    The righteous saint, son of the righteous saint,

    son of the righteous saint, son of the righteous saint—

  18. اليغنمي الَّذي تاه الوجود به

    عَلى أَواخر اهل الخير والاول

    al-Yaghnami, through whom existence glories

    over the last and first among the people of goodness.

  19. سر السَرارَ لب اللب منتخب

    يَرتاح للجود شبه الشاربالثمل

    The secret of secrets, the essence of essence, the elect,

    he thrills to generosity like an intoxicated drinker.

  20. ما تنكر الكوثر الغياض ان وكفت

    كفاه في المحل فعل العارضالهطل

    You cannot mistake the overflowing Kawthar when

    his hands, in drought, do the work of a downpouring raincloud.

  21. أَفعاله سير في المجدأَيسرها

    محيى المحامد بين السهل وَالجبل

    His deeds are chronicles of glory; the least of them

    revives praiseworthy deeds across plain and mountain.

  22. بحر يمد عَلى العافي عوارفه

    بالانعم الخضرلا بالعل وَالنهل

    A sea, he extends his favors to the petitioner,

    with verdant blessings, not a second draught or a first.

  23. بَنيبحطمحطام المال مرتبة

    من دونها زحل كالارض من زحل

    He built, by shattering the dross of wealth, a station

    beneath which Saturn lies as earth lies beneath Saturn.

  24. يا زائد البرعج نحو المذاب فَفي

    ذاك الجناب وَلي بالنوال ملي

    O seeker of goodness, turn toward al-Madhab, for in

    that precinct is a saint abundant in gifts.

  25. وَزر قبور أَولاك الصالحين فهم

    لِلَّه في الارض أَبدال من الرسل

    And visit the graves of those righteous men, for they are

    God's deputies on earth in the messengers' stead.

  26. وَفي زيارتهم نجح المطالب من

    محو الذنوب وَستر الحوب وَالزلل

    In visiting them lies the fulfillment of wishes:

    the erasure of sins and the veiling of guilt and lapses.

  27. ان اليغانم سر اللَه في برع

    شهب الهدى وَالنَدى وَالعلم وَالعمل

    Truly, the Yaghanim are God's secret in Buraʿ,

    bright stars of guidance, generosity, knowledge, and action.

  28. غَمائم الجود أَقمار الوجود لهم

    خَصائص الذكر ما الذكر الحَكيم تلي

    Clouds of bounty, moons of existence, theirs are

    the special honors of remembrance, as long as the Wise Reminder is recited.

  29. وانهم وسط في أمة وسط

    بالخير خاطبها التَنزيل في الازل

    They are the just center of a just community,

    which Revelation addressed with goodness from eternity.

  30. جنابهم جبل اللَه المنيف سمت

    في العز قلته العليا عَلى القلل

    Their precinct is God's lofty mountain; there rises

    in glory its highest summit, above all peaks.

  31. يا سَيدييا جَمال الدين يا عضدي

    يا ناصري في حدوث الحادث الجلل

    O my master, O Jamal al-Din, O my support,

    O my helper when a grievous calamity strikes,

  32. يا واحدا هو كل الناس لا عجب

    أن يجعل اللَه كل الناس في رحل

    O one man who is all mankind—no wonder

    that God should place all mankind within one dwelling.

  33. يَكفيك في سبق أَهل السبق أَنهم

    جادوا وَجدت فكنت الفرد في المثل

    To surpass even the foremost, it suffices you that they

    gave, and you gave, yet you were peerless among peers.

  34. وَالناس في السعي كاسم الماء مشترك

    وانما الفرق بين اللج وَالوشل

    People share in striving, as waters share a name;

    the difference lies between the deep sea and a trickle.

  35. أَضحت يَمينك للراجين روض غَني

    حلوا الجنى كرما يا واهب الجمل

    Your right hand has become a rich garden for those who hope,

    sweet in fruit through generosity, O giver of abundant gifts.

  36. تمد للخير باعا ما به قصر

    يَفيض فضلا عَلى حاف وَمتعل

    You extend toward goodness a reach that never falls short,

    pouring bounty upon the barefoot and the shod.

  37. مَولاي صل سببي وامدد يدي عجلا

    بحق من خلق الانسان من عجل

    My master, join my bond to yours and swiftly fill my hand,

    for the sake of Him who created man from haste.

  38. وانظر إِليّ بعين منك مشفقة

    لِتَستَفيد مَزيد الشكر من قبلي

    And look upon me with your compassionate eye,

    that you may gain still more thanks from me.

  39. من كان يأمل مصراً والخصيب ندا

    فَذا خصيبي وَذا مصري وَذا أَمَلي

    Whoever looks to Egypt and al-Khasib for bounty—

    this is my Khasib, this my Egypt, and this my hope.

  40. بقيت للدينوَالدنيا وأَهلهما

    ركن الكَرامة في الاصباح وَالاصل

    May you remain, for faith, the world, and their people,

    a pillar of honor, morning and evening,

  41. ما اِستقبلت وَجهك الزوار واِستبقت

    غار نعلك يا مَولايَ بالقبل

    as long as visitors greet your face and vie

    to kiss the hollow of your sandal, O my master.