رفعت بسري كل أمري لسيدي — Bahaa Al Sayadi

رَفعْتُ بِسرِّي كُلَّ أمْري لِسَيِّدي

فَيا سَيِّدي اصْلحْ بِمَحْضِ الرِّضا أمْري

In my inmost heart I raised all my affairs to my Master.

So, my Master, set my affairs right through Your sheer good pleasure.

أتَيتُكَ مَقْصوصَ الجَناحِ خُوَيْضعاً

ذَليلاً بلا عُذرٍ ألا فاقْبَلَنْ عُذْري

I came to You, my wing clipped, humbly submissive,

Abased, without excuse—oh, accept my excuse!

رَبَضْتُ بِبابِ الفَضْلِ منكَ ولم أزلْ

على أملِ الإحسانِ يا واسعَ البِرِّ

I crouched at the gate of Your bounty, and have remained

In hope of kindness, O boundless in goodness.

ذُنوبي نَعَمْ زادتْ ووِزريَ فادِحٌ

وَجودُكَ يا ربَّاهُ أعْظَمُ من وِزْري

My sins, yes, have increased, and my burden is grievous,

Yet Your generosity, O my Lord, is greater than my burden.

مَلأتُ رِحابي من دُموعي تَذَلُّلاً

وجِئْتُ بِكسْري فاجْبُرَنْ رحمةً كَسْري

I filled my courtyards with my tears in abasement,

And came with my brokenness; in mercy, mend my brokenness.

فلا عِلمَ لي يُهْدى إليكَ ولا تُقًى

وعُسْري ثَقيلٌ فابْدِلِ العُسْرَ باليُسْرِ

I have no knowledge to offer You, nor piety,

And my hardship is heavy; replace hardship with ease.

فَعاملْ بِفَضلٍ أنتَ لا شكَّ أهْلُهُ

وخفِّفْ ذُنوباً أثْقَلَتِ بالعَنا ظَهْري

So treat me with bounty, of which You are surely worthy,

And lighten sins that have weighed my back down with suffering.

نَشَرْتَ عليَّ السِتْرَ منكَ تَكَرُّماً

فلا تَكْشِفنْ للوِزْرِ يا خالِقي سِتْري

You generously spread Your veil over me;

So do not lift my covering, my Creator, because of sin.

أفِضْ منكَ لي نوراً لأمشي بِنورِهِ

وأسْعى أميناً واثِقاً واشْرَحَنْ صَدْري

Pour forth light from Yourself for me, that I may walk by its light,

And proceed secure and trusting; open wide my breast.

ورِضْني بِمَحْضِ الفَضلِ منك عِنايَةً

لأحْيَى بِحصنِ الأمنِ من نَكْبَةِ الدَّهْرِ

And train me, in Your care, through Your sheer bounty,

That I may live in the fortress of safety from the calamity of time.

فيا أملَ الرَّاجينَ يا غايةَ الرَّجا

ويا موئِلَ المَلْهوفِ في السِّرِّ والجهْرِ

O hope of those who hope, O ultimate end of hope,

And O refuge of the distressed, in secret and in public,

بِسُلْطانكَ الباقي بِطولكَ والعُلى

بِعلْمكَ بالتَّصْريفِ بالنَّهي بالأمْرِ

By Your enduring sovereignty, Your bounty and exaltedness,

By Your knowledge, Your governance, Your prohibition and command,

بِعزَّةِ بأسٍ قد نَشَرْتَ شِراعَها

فَرَدَّتْ على الأشْياءِ جَلْجَلَةَ القَهْرِ

By the might of a power whose sail You have unfurled,

So that it echoed the thunder of subjugation over all things,

بِمَحْضِ جَلالٍ عِندهُ الكُلُّ خاضِعٌ

بِروحِ جَمالٍ سِرُّها دائماً يَسْري

By pure majesty, before which all are submissive,

By the spirit of beauty, whose secret flows forever,

بلاهوتِ فَرْدانِيَّةٍ عَزَّ شأنُها

تَسامَتْ بلا حَدٍّ يُحَدُّ ولا سبْرِ

By the divinity of singular oneness, whose station is exalted,

Rising beyond any definable limit or fathoming,

بِمَجْلى شُعاعٍ من قُلوبٍ تَرَوْحَنَتْ

بِشُكْركَ في الأسحارِ مولايَ والذِّكْرِ

By the manifestation of a ray from hearts made spiritual

Through thanking You and remembrance in the predawn hours, my Master,

بِحالِ حَنينٍ من رِجالٍ دُموعهُمْ

منَ الخَوفِ سَحًّا منْ أماقِيِّهمْ تَجْري

By the yearning state of men whose tears

Flow in torrents from their eye-corners out of fear,

بِرعْدَتهِمْ ضِمنَ الجَنائبِ في السُّرى

إليكَ بَهاتيكَ العَزائِمِ في السَّيْرِ

By their trembling among the led mounts in the night journey

Toward You, with those firm resolves upon the way,

بِلَهفةِ أرْواحٍ وتَنْزيهِ أنفُسٍ

وصِدْقِ قُلوبٍ ما تَلاهَتْ عن الفِكْرِ

By the longing of spirits and the purification of souls,

And the sincerity of hearts never distracted from reflection,

إليكَ التَوَتْ شِبهَ الحَمامِ لِوَكرهِ

ولا بِدْعَ إنْ حَنَّ الحَمامُ إلى الوَكْرِ

They turned toward You like doves toward their nest—

And no wonder if doves yearn for their nest.

تَعامَتْ عنِ الأغْيارِ والكُلُّ زائِلٌ

ومنْ أخْلَصَ التَّوحيدَ يَعْمى عن الغَيْرِ

They closed their eyes to all others, for all things pass away;

Whoever sincerely affirms Oneness is blind to all else.

طَوائِفُ صِدقٍ هَزَّها الصِّدْقُ للتُّقى

فَباتَتْ من الخوفِ المُلِحِّ على جَمْرِ

Companies of sincerity, stirred by sincerity toward piety,

Spent the night on embers from unrelenting fear.

بِأثْوابٍ أحياءٍ يَموتونَ لَهْفةً

تُخالِفُها الأمواتُ في سَكَنِ القَبْرِ

In the garments of the living, they die of longing;

The dead, at rest in the grave, are unlike them.

بِإخْلاصِهمْ رَبِّي بِلُطفِ أنينِهم

بِرَشِّ دُموعٍ دونَها رَشَّةُ القَطْرِ

By their sincerity, my Lord, by the tenderness of their moaning,

By a shower of tears that surpasses a shower of rain,

بما جاءَ في القُرآنِ من كُلِّ مُحْكَمٍ

بِما في فُؤادِ المُصْطَفى الطُّهْرِ من سِرِّ

By all that has come in the Qur'an of clear, decisive revelation,

By the secrets in the heart of the pure Chosen One,

بِنَهضَتهِ ليلاً بِمعْراجِ عَزْمِهِ

بِدَوْلَتهِ إن ماسَ في حَضرةِ الأمْرِ

By his rising at night, by the ascension of his resolve,

By his sovereignty when he swayed in the presence of Command,

بِسِدْرَةِ قُدْسٍ كانََ صاحبَ صَدْرِها

فَأنْعِمْ به في سِدْرةِ القُدسِ من صَدْرِ

By the holy lote tree, whose seat of honor he held—

How excellent a leader is he at the holy lote tree!

بِأطْوارهِ بالطَّوْلِ من عَزَمَاتِهِ

بِسُلْطانهِ الفَعَّالِ في السِّرِّ والجَهْرِ

By his states, by the bounty flowing from his firm resolves,

By his potent authority in secret and in public,

بِطالعِ صُبْحٍ من مَنارِ جَبينِهِ

تَلألأ حتَّى فاقَ طالِعَةَ الظُّهْرِ

By the dawn rising from the beacon of his brow,

Which shone until it surpassed the noonday sun,

بِطَهَ بِطَس التَّدلِّي بِنَصِّها

بِقافِ أفانينِ الرِّسالَةِ بالحَشْرِ

By Ta-Ha, by Ta-Sin of drawing near, by its very text,

By the Qaf of the Message's manifold forms, by the Gathering,

بِحَم مَعناهُ وبالنَّجْمِ إذْ هَوى

إلى قَلبهِ المَعْمورِ بالبِرِّ والخَيْرِ

By the Ha-Mim of his meaning, and by the star when it descended

Into his heart, filled with righteousness and goodness,

بِطورِ مَعاليهِ وسيناءِ سِرِّهِ

وما قامَ في الحالَيْنِ من ذلك الطَّوْرِ

By the Mount of his lofty attainments and the Sinai of his secret,

And what arose in both states from that Mount,

بِجَلْجَلَةٍ من روحِ بُرْهانِ روحِهِ

على سُجُلِ الأيَّامِ دَوْراً على دَوْرِ

By a thunderous peal from the spirit of the proof of his spirit,

Across the records of the days, age upon age,

بِحالٍ طَواهُ من بَراهينِ فَتْحهِ

لِصاحبِهِ البَرِّ الكَريمِ أبي بَكْرِ

By a state he enfolded among the proofs of his opening

For his righteous, noble companion, Abu Bakr,

بِفاروقِهِ مِضْمارِ كُلِّ كَريمةٍ

جَليلِ المَعاني واضحِ الحالِ والسِّرِّ

By his Faruq, the racecourse of every noble virtue,

Majestic in meaning, clear in state and secret,

بِعُثمانَ ذي النُّورَيْنِ صاحبِ صِهْرهِ

مُجَهِّزِ ذاكَ الجيشِ في زَمَنِ العُسْرِ

By Uthman, possessor of the two lights, his kinsman by marriage,

Who equipped that army in a time of hardship,

بِزَوْجِ البَتولِ المُرْتَضى صِنْوِهِ الَّذي

أقامَ على الخَصْمِ القيامةَ في الكَرِّ

By the Chaste One's husband, the Approved One, his counterpart, who

Raised the Day of Judgment against the foe in his charge,

بأصحابِهِ الأعيانِ والآلِ كُلِّهِمْ

أُسودِ الغُيوبِ السَّادَةِ القادَةِ الغُرِّ

By his eminent companions and all his family,

Lions of the unseen realms, radiant lords and leaders,

بِكُلِّ وَليٍّ عارفٍ ذي حَقيقةٍ

قد اغْتَرَفَ الأسرارَ من ذلك البَحْرِ

By every knowing saint possessed of spiritual truth,

Who has scooped up secrets from that sea,

بِحامي الحِمى شَيخِ العَواجزِ أحمدٍ

أبي العَلَميْنِ المُنْجَلي جَلْوَةَ البَدْرِ

By the protector of the sanctuary, shaykh of the helpless, Ahmad,

Abu al-Alamayn, shining forth with the full moon's radiance,

بِوُرَّاثِهِ والعارفينَ بِقَدْرهِ

بِكُلِّ رِجالِ الله من سادَةِ العَصْرِ

By his heirs and those who know his worth,

By all the men of God among the masters of the age,

أغِثْ بِخَفيِّ اللُّطْفِ يا ربِّ حالَنا

وأنْعم لَنا باللُّطْفِ من حيثُ لا ندري

Rescue our plight, my Lord, through hidden kindness,

And bestow kindness on us from where we do not know.

ورُدَّ سهامَ الحاسدينَ لِنَحْرهِمْ

وخُذْهُمْ بِبَتْرِ البَطْشِ من مَضْمَرِ المَكْرِ

Turn the arrows of the envious back upon their throats,

And seize them with a severing blow for the guile they harbor.

وصُبَّ عليهِمْ من عَذابِكَ ماطِراً

يَسومُهُمُ في ساعةِ اللَّهْوِ بالشَّرِّ

Pour upon them a rain of Your punishment,

Afflicting them with evil in their hour of heedless play.

فقدْ أبْطَلوا حكْماً وساءوا سَريرَةً

وقد أظْهَروا الإفسادَ في البحرِ والبَرِّ

For they have nullified judgment and grown corrupt in their inward intent,

And openly spread corruption on sea and land.

إلهي إلهي بالقُلوبِ وأهْلِها

تَدارَكْ بِنَصْرٍ مِثْلَما النَّصْرُ في بَدْرِ

My God, my God, by hearts and their people,

Come to our aid with victory like the victory at Badr.

فإنَّا بِكَسرٍ قد أتَيْناكَ خُلَّصاً

فَقابلْ نِطاقَ الكَسْرِ رَبَّاهُ بالجَبْرِ

For we have come to You in brokenness, wholly sincere;

So meet the expanse of our brokenness, my Lord, with mending.

أتَى عَبدُكَ المَهْدِيُّ يَرْعُدُ خاشِعاً

ثَوى بينَ ميزابِ الحَقيقةِ والحِجْرِ

Your servant al-Mahdi has come, trembling in humility,

Abiding between the waterspout of Reality and the Hijr,

يُكَفْكِفُ دَمْعاً قد أسالَتْهُ عَيْنهُ

وأنتَ بِصدقِ الحالِ أسرارَهُ تَدْري

Wiping away tears his eye has caused to flow;

And You know his secrets through the sincerity of his state.

فَكَمْ قَدَرٍ حَوَّلْتَهُ بعدَ ثَبْتِهِ

وهذا مَقامُ القَصدِ في ليلَةِ القَدْرِ

How many a decree have You changed after it was fixed!

And this is the station of seeking on the Night of Decree.

تَقَطَّعَتْ الآمالُ منهُ عنِ السِّوى

ووافاكَ مِسْكيناً على ساحةِ الفَقْرِ

His hopes in all besides You have been severed,

And he has come to You destitute, upon the courtyard of poverty.

تَقدَّسْتَ يا مولايَ نُزِّهْتَ دائماً

تَبارَكْتَ في سرِّي تَبارَكْتَ في جَهْري

Holy are You, my Master, forever beyond all imperfection.

Blessed are You in my secrecy; blessed are You in my openness.

ذَكَرْتُكَ بالتَّعْظيمِ يا بارِئَ الوَرى

فَعَظِّمْ لهذا الشَأنِ يا خالقي ذِكْري

I remembered You with exaltation, O Maker of creation;

So magnify my remembrance, my Creator, for this purpose.

وَصَلِّ على روحِ الوُجوداتِ كُلِّها

حَبيبكَ طَهَ سَيِّدِ الخُلَّصِ الطُّهْرِ

And bless the spirit of all existences,

Your beloved Taha, master of the sincere and pure.

وعَطِّرْ ضَريحاً حَفَّهُ فَثَوى به

بِعِطْرٍ يَعُمُّ العَرْشَ والفَرْشَ بالنَّشْرِ

And perfume a tomb that enfolded him, where he came to rest,

With a fragrance whose wafting fills the Throne and the carpet of earth.