خلها تدمي من السير يداها

لا تعقها فلقد شق مداها

Let her two forelegs bleed from traveling.

Do not hinder her, for her course has grown arduous.

ماهوت في الدو إلا وانثنت

تلتقي الحصبا كما تفلي فلاها

Whenever she plunged into the wilderness, she bent down,

meeting the pebbles as she would groom her young.

هزها الشوق فأبراها الضنا

فانبرت تحمد بالشوق ضناها

Longing stirred her, and wasting illness made her gaunt;

so through longing she began praising her suffering.

رضيت حر الهوى ماءاً كما

رضيت متلفة السير غذاها

She accepted passion's heat as water, just as

she accepted travel's deadly toil as her food.

عميت عن كل ما يشغلها

عن هداها وهداها في عماها

She grew blind to all that distracts her

from her guidance—and her guidance lies in her blindness.

عكرت رحب الفضا مما أثا

رته فالتف دجاها بضحاها

She clouded the wide open space with what she stirred

up, until its darkness mingled with its daylight.

قصرها الكاظم موسى والذي

غمر الناس يداً بعض نداها

Her destination is al-Kazim Musa, and the one

a portion of whose hand's bounty overwhelmed mankind.

قف فدتك النفس واغنم أجرها

حيث تحييها سلاماً من فناها

Halt—may the soul ransom you—and win its reward,

where you salute it with peace from its courtyard,

مبلغاً جل سلامي لهما

طالباً للنفس ما فيه هداها

conveying most of my greetings to them both,

seeking for the soul that in which its guidance lies.

قل لمن كلم موسى باسمه

ولمن من جوده نال عصاها

Say to him who wounded Musa with his name,

and to him who gained her staff through his bounty:

أشهيدي جانب الزوراء هل

زورة تطفي عن النفس لظاها

O two martyrs beside al-Zawra, is there

a visit that will quench the soul's blaze?

أم لعيني نظرة ممن رأى

جدثي قدسكما تجلو جلاها

Or may my eye receive a glance from one who has seen

your two sacred tombs, to clear its sight?

لم ير اللَه أناساً غيركم

للشهادات فانتم شهداها

God has found no people but you

for martyrdom; you are its martyrs.

بل ولا نال اغتراباً غيركم

مثل ما نلتم فأنتم غرباها

Nor has anyone but you suffered exile

such as you endured; you are its exiles.

جدكم أعظم قدراً وأذى

فحسوتم بعده كأساً حساها

Your forefather was greatest in rank and in suffering;

after him you drank a cup he had drunk.

وسقاكم ثدي أخلاق بها

عطر القرآن من عطر شذاها

And the breast of virtues gave you drink; through them

the Quran was perfumed with the aroma of their fragrance.

يا ذواتاً أكملت علة إيجاد

ذي العرش الورى والبدء طاها

O beings who completed the purpose of creation

of humankind by the Lord of the Throne—Taha was the beginning.

ما رجا راج بكم إلا نجا

كيف والراجي الميامين فتاها

No supplicant hoped through you without being saved.

How otherwise, when the blessed ones' supplicant is their servant?

ثم عج يا مرشد النفس إلى

أرض سامراء ننشق من ثراها

Then turn, O guide of the soul, toward

the land of Samarra; let us inhale the scent of its soil.

وأعطها مقودها حتى ترى

قبة فيها رجاها ومناها

And give her free rein until she sees

a dome wherein lie her hope and desire.

فعلى نوري علا حلا بها

من صلوة اللَه والخلق رضاها

Upon the two lights of glory who settled there

may God's and creation's blessings rest, to her contentment.

والق عنها حلس وعثاء السرى

وقل البشرى فقد زال عناها

Cast off from her the saddlecloth of arduous night travel,

and say, 'Good news! Her hardship has passed.'

واطلب الحاجات تحظى بالأ

جابة في حال بقاها وفناها

And ask for your needs; you shall gain an

answer, while she lives and when she passes away.

ثم انهضني فلا قوة لي

من هموم أبهضتني من عداها

Then lift me up, for I have no strength

because of cares from her foes that have weighed me down,

نحو سرداب حوى خوف العدى

عصمة العالم والمعطي رجاها

toward a crypt that sheltered, for fear of the foes,

the world's protector, the giver of her hope.

وامش بي رسلا فما تدري عسى

اللَه لبى دعوة في مشتكاها

Walk with me gently; you never know—perhaps

God has answered a prayer amid her lament.

وادخلن بي خاضعاً مستشفعاً

لي بأن اسعد يوماً بلقاها

And take me in humbly, seeking intercession

for me, that one day I may rejoice in meeting him.

نقرأ التسليم منا عد ما

خلق اللَه إلى يوم جزاها

We recite our salutations, as numerous as what

God has created, until the day of its requital.

يا ولي اللَه والمعطي مدى

أمد الأيام اقليد عطاها

O friend of God, given throughout

the span of days the key to their bounty,

والنضير الشاهد الحاكم في الـ

ـخلق والموصي له من نظراها

and the radiant witness, the judge over the

creation, to whom its peers made their bequest:

قم على اسم اللَه اثبت ما بقي

من رسوم فالعدى راموا انمحاها

Arise in God's name; make firm what remains

of the traces, for the foes have sought their erasure.

طهر الأرض بأجناد أبت

أن يرى مبدؤها أو منتهاها

Purify the earth with troops that refuse

to let their beginning or their end be seen.

وابسط العدل بعيسى الروح

والخضر محفوفاً بأملاك سماها

And spread justice with Isa, the Spirit,

and al-Khidr, surrounded by the angels of its heaven.

ان دوحات الرجا قد أذنت

بانحسار فمتى خضراً نراها

Indeed, the great trees of hope have signaled

their decline; when shall we see them green?

والأماني حبالي هل ترى

منك يوماً بوليد بشراها

And wishes are pregnant—will there appear

one day from you glad tidings of their newborn?

جرد السيف لثارات بني

امك الزهراء واجهد في رضاها

Unsheathe the sword to avenge the sons of

your mother al-Zahra, and strive to please her.

جلب القوم عليهم جحفلا

كالدجى لكن دراريه ظباها

The people marshaled against them a mighty host,

like darkness, yet its glittering stars were their sword-edges.

تلتقي جيش العدى ضاحكة

والمواضي من دم طال بكاها

They meet the enemy's army laughing,

while the keen swords have long wept blood.

ابلغوا للدفع عن حامية الـ

ـدين يوصي الكل كلا بحماها

They strove their utmost to defend the protector of the

faith, each urging the others to guard him.

لم يزالوا في الوغى حتى جرى

من يد الأقدار ما حم قضاها

They did not cease fighting until there came

from the hand of fate what its decree had ordained.

جرعوا كأس المنايا عندما

كرعوا مج ضييلات قناها

They drank the cup of death when

they gulped what its slender little spears spat out.

وبقي قطب المعالي والعدى

حوله والبيض والسمر رحاها

And the pivot of noble deeds remained, the foes

around him, white swords and brown spears their millstones.

يلتقي بهم الأعادي باسماً

ملتقى الوفاد أيام قراها

He met the enemies with them, smiling,

as he would meet guests in days of hospitality.

فحمى حتى قضى وهو كريم

فعليه اللَه صلى لا يضاها

So he defended until he died, still noble;

may God bless him—he is beyond compare.