Sol 6.1

  1. بني علي نرى الأفضال مجملها

    فيكم وعنكم بكم نروي مفصلها

    Sons of Ali, we see the virtues in their entirety

    in you; about you and through you we recount their details.

  2. يا أبحراً يمم العافون منهلها

    إن الرياسة أنتم أهلها ولها

    O seas whose watering place seekers of bounty seek!

    Indeed, you are worthy of leadership; with longing

  3. همتم بها مثلما هامت بكم ولها

    لكم مفاخر فيها يضرب المثل

    you love it, just as it loves you in rapture.

    Yours are glories held up as examples.

  4. لأم من رامها حاشا كم الهبل

    فأنت أنتم الهادون والسبل

    May bereavement befall the mother of whoever seeks them—save you!

    For you—you are the guides and the paths,

  5. والعالمون إذا ما الناس قد جهلوا

    والعاملون إن ضل امرؤ ولها

    the knowledgeable when people are ignorant,

    and the doers when a man strays in bewilderment.

  6. أطل كالبدر في الظلماء فخركم

    وجل كالدهر عمر الدهر قدركم

    Your glory shines forth like the full moon in darkness,

    and your stature is grand as Time, throughout Time's span.

  7. أنتم ولاة النهى والأمر امركم

    بني علي وما للأمر غيركم

    You are the masters of reason, and command is yours,

    sons of Ali; none but you is fit for command.

  8. ملكتم من أمور الناس أولها

    إن الفضائل قد أدلت بجانبها

    You have held sway over the foremost affairs of humankind.

    Indeed, the virtues have inclined their flank

  9. إليكم فامتطيتم متن غاربها

    وقد جنيتم ثماراً من اطائبها

    toward you, and you mounted the back of their withers.

    You have gathered fruits from their choicest bounty.

  10. هذي العلوم لكم كشف الغطاء بها

    وكم فتحتم بعون اللَه مقفلها

    These sciences—through them the veil was lifted for you,

    and how often, with God's help, you unlocked their closed mysteries!

  11. نلتم بجد مقاماً لم ينله أحد

    وهكذا كل من في المجد جد وجد

    Through diligence you attained a station no one else attained.

    So it is: whoever strives for glory finds it.

  12. فذا لكم من أب سامٍ وأكرم جد

    وذي المعالي إليكم وردها ولقد

    This is yours from an exalted father and a most noble grandfather.

    These lofty honors flow to you; indeed,

  13. رويتم عن أهاليكم مسلسلها

    ما حل قطراً من الأقطر ذكر كم

    you have related their unbroken succession from your forebears.

    Your mention has never reached a region

  14. إلا وعبق ذاك القطر نشركم

    أنتم جمال المعالي وهي ذخركم

    without that region being scented by your fragrance.

    You are the beauty of high honors, and they are your treasure.

  15. أخبارها صرحت فيكم وغيركم

    تكلف الأمر لما أن تأولها

    Their accounts speak plainly of you, while others

    strain over the matter when they interpret them.

  16. بالخلق والخلق قد حاكيتم الرسلا

    وقد حويتم لعمري ما حووا كملا

    In form and character you have resembled the messengers,

    and, by my life, you have gathered all they possessed:

  17. علماً على عفة مجداً هدىً عملا

    لو أنزل اللَه من بعد النبي على

    knowledge joined to chastity, glory, guidance, deeds.

    Had God, after the Prophet, sent down upon

  18. سواه آيا عليكم كان أنزلها

    قد فاز من أم نادي فضلكم وقفا

    another His verses, He would have revealed them to you.

    He succeeds who seeks the assembly of your excellence and follows

  19. نهجاً سرى سيركم فيه وما وقفا

    فالوجه أنتم وأبناء الزمان قفا

    a path on which he journeys as you journey, never stopping.

    You are the face; the sons of the age are the nape.

  20. إذا افتخرتم ذكرتم جعفراً وكفى

    ما زال يفرج للغماء مشكلها

    When you boast, you name Ja'far—and that suffices.

    He never ceases to unravel the difficulties of dire affliction.

  21. ذاك الذي قيس بالدنيا فعادلها

    وكل علياء قد طالت تناولها

    He is the one who, weighed against the world, equaled it.

    Every lofty honor, however high, he attained

  22. بعزمة بعده موسى تداولها

    وكم لموسى يد بيضاء لأن لها

    with a resolve that Musa, after him, took up in turn.

    How many a white hand Musa has, before which softened

  23. صعب ونال الأماني من تأملها

    مولى له في بناء المجد أعمدةً

    hardship; whoever contemplated it attained his wishes.

    A lord with pillars in the edifice of glory,

  24. لها يد العلم والتقوى مشيدة

    واوحدي مراميه مسددةً

    raised by the hand of knowledge and piety;

    a peerless man whose aims are well directed.

  25. له عصا حكمة الباري مؤيدة

    بآيها نفثات السحر أبطلها

    He has a staff upheld by the Creator's wisdom;

    with its signs he annulled the breathings of sorcery.

  26. لقد حوى من صفات المجد أكملها

    مفاخراً وصعاب الفضل ذللها

    He has gathered the most perfect attributes of glory,

    proud distinctions, and tamed the difficulties of excellence:

  27. محاسن فيه أبدى اللَه مجملها

    وفي علي معال لو جهدت لها

    beauties whose entirety God has revealed in him.

    In Ali are lofty honors which, even if you labored over them,

  28. والعالمون جميعاً لن تفصلها

    فيا لندب ببرد المجد ملتحف

    along with all the learned, you could never recount in detail.

    O noble champion, wrapped in the mantle of glory,

  29. وعالم علم بالزهد متصف

    وبحر فضلٍ صفا ورداً لمغترف

    a scholar and beacon, marked by asceticism,

    and a sea of bounty, clear drinking water for whoever draws!

  30. وما تفاضل أهل الفضل في شرف

    إلا وكان أبو العباس أفضلها

    Never did the worthy compete in nobility

    without Abu al-Abbas being the best of them.

  31. أكرم بحلف معالٍ طاب عنصره

    ما زر إلى على الإحسان مئزره

    How noble this companion of lofty honors, whose origin is pure!

    He fastened his waistcloth only for beneficence.

  32. بدر الكما لالذي قد راق منظره

    علامة الأمم الوضاح مفخره

    The full moon of perfection, whose appearance delights,

    the great scholar of nations, whose glory shines brightly,

  33. من راح أوفى الورى علماً وأكملها

    أعاظم مست الجوزاء أرجلها

    who has become the most learned and most accomplished of humankind.

    Great ones whose feet have touched al-Jawza',

  34. يهابها الدهر إجلالاً ويأملها

    شهب كآخرها في النور أولها

    whom Time reveres in awe and looks to with hope;

    shooting stars, their first as luminous as their last,

  35. أماجد تهب النعماء أنملها

    من قبل أن ترد المغنى لتسألها

    noble men whose fingertips bestow bounty

    before you reach their dwelling to ask them.

  36. هم الأكارم جل اللَه فضلهم

    بالعلم والحلم والتقوى وبجلهم

    They are the generous ones; God magnified their excellence

    with knowledge, forbearance, and piety, and honored them.

  37. وعندما شاء للآخرى ترحلهم

    مضوا كراماً فلا عين العلوم لهم

    When He willed their departure to the hereafter,

    they departed nobly; knowledge's eye, grieving for them, cannot

  38. ترقى ولم تترك العليا تولولها

    قد أكملوا الشرع في سر لهم وعلن

    cease its tears, nor has high honor abandoned its wailing.

    They perfected the sacred law, in private and in public,

  39. وبينوا كل مفروضٍ له وسنن

    أجل وقد طوقوا جيد الزمان منن

    and explained all its obligations and prescribed practices.

    Indeed, they encircled Time's neck with benefactions.

  40. ومذ مضى الحسن الزاكي تخيل أن

    ما للشريعة منهم من يقوم لها

    When al-Hasan the pure passed away, it was imagined that

    none of them remained to uphold the sacred law.

  41. ظن المريبون أن اللَه راحمها

    أخلى من العلم والعليا معالمها

    The doubters supposed that God, merciful to it,

    had emptied its landmarks of knowledge and high honor,

  42. ولم يؤيد فتى يحيى مكارمها

    وما دروا قد أعد اللَه قائمها

    and had not supported a youth to revive its noble qualities.

    They did not know that God had prepared its champion:

  43. محمداً والفتى المهدي موئلها

    مهذب ألمعي زانه ظرف

    Muhammad, and the youth al-Mahdi, its refuge.

    Refined and keen of mind, adorned with grace;

  44. أجل وبدر كمالٍ ما به كلف

    وعالم للنهى في مجده شنف

    indeed, a full moon of perfection, with no dark spots;

    a scholar whose glory is an earring adorning reason.

  45. وفي ابن موسى الرضا عمن مضى خلف

    تلقاه ما بين أهليه مبجلها

    In Musa's son, al-Rida, is a successor to those who passed;

    you meet him among his family, their honored one.

  46. بدور تم إلى العليا بهم سرع

    ورحبهم من غوادي فضلهم ترع

    Full moons, through whom one hastens toward high honor;

    their courtyards brim with the morning showers of their bounty.

  47. أثمة علماء زانهم ورع

    أكرم بهم فتيةً أوصافهم شرع

    Learned leaders, adorned with piety;

    how noble these youths, whose qualities are equal

  48. في الفضل إذ ترد الوراد منهلها

    أبناء قوم لهم بين الورى شرف

    in excellence, when seekers of water reach their spring!

    Sons of a people whose honor among humankind is

  49. باد وفي جنة المأوى لهم غرف

    همهم للمعالي والهدى كنف

    manifest, and who have chambers in the Garden of Refuge.

    Their resolve shelters lofty honors and guidance.

  50. حسبي وحسب البرايا بعدهم خلف

    أعباء أهليه طراً قد تحملها

    Sufficient for me and all creatures after them is a successor

    who has shouldered all his family's burdens.

  51. أعني أبا محسن غوث الأنام أجل

    وغيثها منحة الرحمن عز وجل

    I mean Abu Muhsin, the succor of humankind—indeed,

    and its life-giving rain, a gift of the All-Merciful, mighty and exalted;

  52. بحر الفضائل مصباح الشريعة بل

    بقية السلف الماضين والخلف

    a sea of virtues, the lamp of the sacred law—rather,

    the remnant of the forefathers gone before, and the successor

  53. الذي عليه الورى ألقت معولها

    حامي حمى الدين من فيه قد اكتملت

    on whom humankind has placed its reliance.

    Protector of religion's sanctuary, in whom have been perfected

  54. مناقب الفضل فازدادت سناً وعلت

    ومن أقام قناة الشرع فاعتدلت

    the qualities of excellence, growing more radiant and exalted;

    he who raised the lance-shaft of sacred law, making it straight:

  55. محمد بن علي خير من رقلت

    له المطي وشد الوفد أرحلها

    Muhammad ibn Ali, the best of those toward whom sped

    the riding camels, and for whom delegations strapped on their saddles.

  56. أكرم بذي همم قد نال ساعده

    ما رام واللَه باريه مساعده

    How noble this man of aspirations, whose arm has attained

    what he desired, with God his Maker as his helper!

  57. وماجد عمت الدنيا فوائده

    سرت إلى قيصر الأقصى محامده

    A noble man whose benefits have spread across the world;

    his praises traveled to far-off Caesar,

  58. وجاوزت مسمعي كسرى فبجلها

    وجعفر الفضل من أحيت فضائله

    and passed beyond Kisra's ears, and he esteemed them.

    And Ja'far of excellence, whose virtues revived

  59. ميت العلى قبل أن يشتد كاهله

    ذاك الذي قل في الدنيا مشاكله

    dead high honor before his shoulders grew strong;

    he whose peers in this world are few,

  60. حامي حمى العلم أن تشكل مسائله

    على الورى حل باسم اللَه مشكلها

    protector of knowledge's sanctuary: should its questions perplex

    humankind, he solves their difficulties in God's name.

  61. يا واحداً واهب النعماء خلوه

    أسنى العلى ورواق العلم جلله

    O peerless one, whom the Giver of blessings endowed

    with the loftiest honors and clothed in knowledge's canopy!

  62. يا وارثاً من طراز الفضل أكمله

    يا محرزاً جمل الحمد الجليل له

    O inheritor of the finest embroidery of excellence,

    O winner of the full measure of sublime praise due to him,

  63. وحائزاً من صفات المجد أجملها

    خذها فرائد قد راقت مسطرة

    and possessor of glory's most beautiful attributes,

    take these as rare pearls, lovely when set in writing;

  64. لا بل خرائد قد وافت معطرة

    يا مالكاً جيد أسناها محرره

    no—rather, secluded maidens come perfumed.

    O possessor of the fairest one's neck, who sets it free,

  65. إليك مني بلا من محبرة

    ألقت بجنب حماك الرحب كلكلها

    to you from me, without a claim of favor, finely adorned,

    she has laid her breast beside your spacious sanctuary.

  66. أضحت تهنيك بالأضحى وقد سفرت

    عنها اللثام فأبدت أوجهاً بهرت

    She now congratulates you on al-Adha, having drawn aside

    her veil and revealed faces that dazzled:

  67. مدائح بأفانين الثنا زهرت

    طالت نظاماً وعن علياك قد قصرت

    praises blossoming with manifold forms of acclaim.

    Though long in their verse, they fall short of your exalted station;

  68. فها لتقصيرها تبدي تنصلها

    here, then, they offer their apology for falling short.