أضحى فؤادي والأشواق مرتبضا

وراضه منهم ما ليس مرتفضا

My heart has come to lie settled amid longings,

and something from them, not to be cast aside, has subdued it.

وبات عنه المنام الليل مرتفعاً

وظل عنه المقيلُ النوم منخفضا

At night, sleep remained lifted away from it,

and by day, the sleep of noon’s repose lay sunk away from it.

بَوضا بقلبي لا يزال يومضه

وفاض منه براض ليس مبترضا

[An unclear term] within my heart keeps making it flash,

and from it poured a trickle not drawn off drop by drop.

تبرَّضَ الجسمَ بعد القلب بارضه

وآضَهُ حرضاً وجاءه دأضا

What gnawed at it consumed the body after the heart,

and left it wasted, assailing it with a thrust.

من لي بمن يشفه بمن نأت ودنت

جسماً وحباً وصار شوقها جرضا

Who will bring me someone to heal it through her who is far yet near,

in body and in love, while yearning for her has become a choking lump?

خريضة بضّة من بيض إضتها

تضني وتشفي الضنا نأياً وقرب رضا

A tender maiden, soft-skinned, among the fair women of her people,

she causes wasting and heals it, through distance and the nearness of favor.

ضريبة الحسن فيها الله ضمّضها

فضمعج ضرضحٌ وضخمةٌ ربضا

The stamp of beauty—God gathered it within her:

full-figured, broad-framed, and ample of body.

رفَّاضةٌ للقلوب والمُرِضَّتها

ترفَّضَ القلب من تذكارها رمضا

A shatterer of hearts, and she who crushes them:

the heart shattered, burning at the remembrance of her.

أضبأتُ من حبها على ضُنُوءَته

وضُؤْضُؤُ الودِّ ليس غيرها حفظا

I secretly held to the offspring of my love for her,

and the very root of affection preserved none but her.

مستنطقي باسمها باسم الإله له

ميمون ميمون أوْ محبوب لي عرضا

To the one asking me to utter her name, in God’s name:

Maymūn, Maymūn—or a beloved—occurred to me.

لكنني معرضٌ عن ذكرها شغلاً

بأرض غيب سماء الغيب مُعْترِضَا

But I turn away from mentioning her, occupied

with a land of the unseen, spanning the sky of the unseen:

فردٌ على الكون حقاً قد نما وضفا

كالشمس ضوءاً بها النجوم مُنقَبِضا

a peerless one who has truly grown and spread above creation,

sunlike in radiance, before which the stars shrink.

غوثٌ به الغيث والأوفاض وافضة

إليه ليس لها سواه مفترضا

A succorer, through whom comes rain, and the throngs hurry

toward him; none but him is appointed for them.

قطب به من يرى في الكون مضطربا

وحيث يحبض أرمى سعيه الحبضا

A pole, through whom those seen in creation move,

and wherever one falls short, his striving surpasses the shortfall.

شيخ إلى ربه الأمورَ فوَّضها

فوضى ففوَّضها له ولا عوضا

A shaykh who entrusted affairs to his Lord,

in their disorder, then entrusted them to Him, without recompense.

شيخ الشيوخ مُحَمَّدْ فاضلٌ وبما

مِينَ الأمينُ إلى النَّبيِّ ما دحضا

The shaykh of shaykhs, Muhammad Fadil; and through Mā—

—mīn the trustworthy, [his connection] to the Prophet has not faltered.

يُضَحْجِرُ القلبَ من نور المعارف مع

نور العلوم بماء الغيب قد رحضا

He fills the heart with the light of spiritual insights, together with

the light of learning; he has washed it with the water of the unseen.

من بعد ما أربض الأقوام كلهم

إناؤه وله جميعهم ركضا

After all the people, every one, had been made to rest, sated,

by his vessel—and all of them ran to him.

غيضا وغيضانة له سألَتْ كما

وجدتها بقضاء من مضى وقضى

She asked him for scant water and a thicket [sense uncertain], just as

I found it through the decree of one who passed on and judged.

ضغيغ دهر الأنام دهره ولها

ضغيغةٌ دهرها يريضها فَضَضَا

His age is the flourishing abundance [sense uncertain] of humanity’s age; and for her,

her age is lush abundance [sense uncertain]; he tames it with scattered water.

فالضَّبْدُ رؤيته والضَّهْدُ همته

والغض حرفته مع رتبة الغرضا

Thus his gaze is wrath, and subjugation is his resolve;

and restraint is his craft, with the rank of the sought-for goal.

معدّماً مرضا يفيض لا بضضا

مكملا فرضاً سواه قدْ رُفضا

Banishing sickness, he overflows, not merely seeps,

fulfilling a duty, with all else cast aside.