متى متى ياسا كنين سمعون

متى متى إلى الوطن تعودون

When, when, O dwellers of Samʿun,

When, when will you return to the homeland?

يا سادة حلوا بقرب دمون

كم وسط زنبل من أمام مدفون

O masters who have settled near Dammun,

Many an imam lies buried in the midst of Zanbal,

صافي مصفى بالغرام مشحون

لفقده أهل المعرفة يحنون

Pure, purified, filled with ardent love,

People of spiritual knowledge yearn for him in his absence.

آل الغبي المتقون الأخيار

أهل المعارف والصفا والأسرار

The family of al-Ghabi, the God-fearing and good,

People of spiritual knowledge, purity, and secrets,

أهل المحبة والهدى والأنوار

كم سر فيهم مكتتم ومصيون

People of love, guidance, and lights.

How many secrets lie concealed and safeguarded within them!

بيت الندى والعلم والعباده

بيت الشرف والفضل والسياده

A house of generosity, knowledge, and worship,

A house of honor, merit, and leadership,

بيت الرضا والأنس والزهاده

من حبهم سعدو ومن يحبون

A house of contentment, intimacy, and asceticism.

Those who loved them were blessed, as were those they love.

تراهم في الليل في المساجد

ما بين قائم خاشع وساجد

You see them at night in the mosques,

Some standing in humility, others prostrate,

وذاكر مراقب مشاهد

إذ أفنوا في ذكرهم يذوبون

And one remembering God, watchful, witnessing.

As they lose themselves, they melt away in their remembrance.

وكم لهم أحوال أي أحوال

تصان عن أهل الهوى والأنذال

And how many spiritual states are theirs—what states!

Safeguarded from followers of base desire and the ignoble.

ما شانها المخرج ولا التبذال

لم يدرها مثلي غبي مغبون

Neither outward expression nor vulgarity has marred them.

An ignorant, deprived soul like me has not understood them.

ولم أطق وصف الذي عرفته

من شانهم أيضا وما خبرته

Nor could I describe what I have known

Of their state, too, and what I have experienced,

وما تحققته وما سبرته

من المكارم ذي لها يعانون

And what I have verified and what I have fathomed,

Of the noble virtues for which they toil.

وكم ببكدر والغريط سادات

أهل الورع والفقه والعبادات

And how many masters are in Bakdar and al-Gharit,

People of scrupulous piety, jurisprudence, and worship!

وكم أتت في فضلهم مقالات

وصدق فيهم كلما يقولون

And how many accounts have spoken of their merit!

And all that people say of them is true.

والأنبيا والأوليا أهل الإحسان

يكون كانيهم باين ما كان

And the prophets and saints, people of goodness,

Whoever they may be, wherever they are:

فرض علينا حبهم للإيمان

أوثق عراه عندما يعدون

Loving them is our duty, and faith's

Firmest bond, when its bonds are counted.

إني أحب الصالحين الأخيار

عسى يقع لي وسط دورهم دار

I love the righteous and the good.

May a home be mine among their dwellings,

أكون معهم وأكن لهم جار

تفوز معهم عند ما يفوزون

That I may be with them and be their neighbor.

You will triumph with them when they triumph.

عسى من أخلاق الكرام أخلاق

نذوقها مثل الذي لها ذاق

May some of the virtues of the noble be ours,

May we taste them as others have tasted them,

ونرتوي من الذي لهم راق

نحوز في العقبى الذي يحوزون

And drink our fill of what delighted them,

And attain in the hereafter what they attain.

عسى من فضل واسع الجود

أحظى بمطلوبي بغير مجهود

May it be, by the grace of the One of boundless bounty,

That I attain what I seek without exertion,

وأحتوى من قرب رب معبود

يفوق ما هذا العرب يظنون

And gain a nearness to the worshipped Lord

That surpasses what these Arabs imagine.

إني طلبت الله ما طلبتك

يالائمي كلا ولا قصدتك

Indeed, I sought God, not you,

O my reproacher—no! Nor did I turn to you.

بالشح والبخل لقد عرفتك

فلست أسمع للذي يلومون

I have indeed known you for stinginess and miserliness.

So I do not listen to those who reproach me.

إني وإن كنت كثير الأوزار

أرجو كريم الوجه خير غفار

Indeed, though I carry many sins,

I hope in the One of gracious countenance, the best of forgivers,

يغفر ذنوبي جهرها والأسرار

يفك من هو بالذنوب مرهون

Who forgives my sins, the public and the secret,

And frees whoever is held hostage by sins.

فهل ترى تسعدني الليالي

ويأذن الرحمن باتصالي

So, will the nights, do you think, favor me,

And the All-Merciful permit my union,

وارتقى كل مقام عالي

بمحض فضل الله باري الكون

And I ascend to every lofty station,

By the grace alone of God, the Creator of the universe?

يا رب ياتواب تب علينا

ولا تؤاخذنا بما جنينا

O Lord, O Accepter of repentance, turn to us in mercy,

And do not hold us to account for what we have committed,

مما كتمناه وما أبدينا

يارب إني قلت قول ذي النون

Of what we concealed and what we revealed.

O Lord, I have spoken the words of Dhu al-Nun.

واختم لنا عند الممات بالخير

وكن لنا حال المقام والسير

And grant us a good ending at death,

And stand by us as we stay or journey,

ولا تكلنا للنفوس والغير

ولا نرى باسا ولا نرى هون

And do not entrust us to our own selves or to others.

And may we see no hardship, nor any humiliation.

والفاصلاة الله مع سلام

على النبي المصطفى التهامي

And a thousand blessings of God, together with peace,

Upon the Prophet, the Chosen One of Tihama,

وآله وصحبه الكرام

وكل من دان بما يدينون

And his family and his noble companions,

And everyone who follows the faith they follow.