Sol 6.1

  1. عِندَ قُطبِ التَصريفِ طولاً وَعَرضا

    في وُجودي لا يَقتَضي الحالُ عَرضا

    Before the Pole whose governance spans length and breadth

    within my being, my state needs no exposition.

  2. كَيفَ يخفى وَنورُهُ في وُجودي

    يَتَجَلّى بِالحالِ بَسطاً وَقَبضا

    How could it be hidden, when his light within my being

    manifests in my state, in expansion and contraction?

  3. وَهوَ مِرآةُ عَينِ روحِ حَياتي

    في شُهودي وَالغَيرُ جِسمٌ وأَعضا

    And he is the mirror of the essence of my life's spirit

    in my witnessing; all else is body and limbs.

  4. بَل وَعَينُ الإيجادِ روحاً وَجِسماً

    وَهوَ غَيثُ الإِمدادِ سَحّاً وَفَيضا

    Rather, he is also creation's very essence, in spirit and body,

    and he is the rain of sustaining aid, pouring and overflowing.

  5. وَإِذا كانَ مِثلَ ما قُلتُ كَيفَ ال

    حالُ يَخفى عَلَيهِ كُلّاً وَبعضا

    And if he is as I have said, how can the

    state be hidden from him, wholly or in part?

  6. إِنَّما بِاِعتِبارِ حَجبِيَ أَبدَي

    تُ لَهُ الحالَ إِذ بِيَ الحالُ أَفضى

    Only because I myself am veiled did I disclose

    my state to him, when my state brought me to this.

  7. يا نَبِيَّ الرِضا أَلَم يُرضِكَ الحق

    قُ بِنَصِّ الرِضا لَعَلَّكَ تَرضى

    O Prophet of contentment, has not the Truth pleased you

    with the explicit assurance of contentment: “that you may be pleased”?

  8. حاشَ جاهُ النَبِيِّ وَهوَ عَريضٌ

    أَن يَرى السوءَ في المُحِبِّ وَيَرضى

    Far be it from the Prophet, whose standing is so vast,

    to see harm befall one who loves him and be content.

  9. كَم رَأى نَدبَ واجِبِ القَلبِ فيهِ

    مِن حَشاءٍ يَرى بِهِ الحُبَّ فَرضا

    How often he has seen the lament of a heart throbbing for him,

    from a breast that deems love for him a duty.

  10. ضِقتُ ذَرعاً مَع وُسعِ بَيداءِ صَبري

    كادَ لَولا الرَجاءِ أَن يَتَقَضّى

    I could bear no more, despite my patience's vast desert;

    but for hope, it would have all but come to an end.

  11. وَبِنَيلِ الرَجا تَمَسَّكتُ طيباً

    وَلِعَهدِ الوَفاءِ لَم أَبغِ نَقضا

    And I clung gladly to the attainment of hope,

    and sought no breach of the covenant of fidelity.

  12. سَيِّدي نابَني الزَمانُ بِنَوبِ ال

    خَطبِ لَمّا بِنابِهِ الدَهرُ عَضّا

    My master, time beset me with the onsets of

    calamity, when fate bit me with its fang.

  13. كانَ نَصبي لِلرَفعِ مَرفوع جاهٍ

    مِنهُ فَتحي وَلا أَرى فيهِ خَفضا

    My suffering was to raise me to exalted standing;

    from it comes my opening, and I see no abasement in it.

  14. فَلَكَم طَرف عَينِ عَونِكَ يَرعى

    مَربَعَ الصَبِّ كَيفَ في الجَذبِ أَغضى

    For how often the glance of your aiding eye has guarded

    the lover's dwelling—how could it close in rapture?

  15. وَشَدا طَيرُ حُبِّ حُسنِكَ في غُص

    نِ شَبابي وَرَوضُهُ كانَ غَضّا

    And the bird of love for your beauty sang on the branch

    of my youth, while its garden was fresh and tender.

  16. كَيفَ يا غَيثُ أَن يَعودَ هَشيماً

    وَلَكَم شامَ مِن بُروقِكَ وَمَضا

    How, O rain, could it become dry stubble,

    when so often it has glimpsed a flash of your lightning?

  17. كَم صِلاتٍ مِنَ العَوائِدِ فيهِ

    أَورَدَتهُ مِن مَورِدِ الفَضلِ حَوضا

    How many gifts of accustomed bounty within it

    have brought it to a pool from the wellspring of grace!

  18. سيما ما منحت مِن رُؤيَةِ العَي

    نِ لِذاتٍ وَالعَينُ مِنّيَ غَمضا

    Especially the eye's vision that you bestowed

    of your person, while my own eye was closed.

  19. وَتَفَضَّلتَ يا كَريمُ بِفَضلٍ

    قَد تَوالى وَفَيضُهُ لَيسَ يُقضى

    And you bestowed, O generous one, a bounty

    that has flowed unceasingly, its outpouring never exhausted.

  20. بِضَجيعَي ضَريحِ رَوضَةِ مَثوا

    كَ وَزَهرا العَلاءِ بِنتُكَ مَحضا

    By the two companions in the tomb-garden of your resting place,

    and Zahra of exalted rank, truly your daughter,

  21. وَبِعُثمانَ ذي الحَياءَ وَمَن خا

    ضَ بِحاراً مِنَ المَعامِعِ خَوضا

    and by Uthman, possessed of modesty, and him who plunged

    headlong into seas of battle,

  22. الوَصِيِّ الكَرّارِ مَن أَشهَدَ النَق

    عَ بِيَومِ الهِياجِ فَتكاً وَقرضا

    the appointed heir, ever charging, who made the dust witness

    slaughter and hewing on the day of battle,

  23. وَبِباقي الأَصحابِ مَن أَقرَضوا اللَ

    هَ بِأَرواحِهِم لِدينِكَ قَرضا

    and by the other Companions, who lent God

    their souls as a loan for your faith:

  24. نَظرَةً هاشِمِيَّةً في هُمومٍ

    هِيَ مِن باتِرِ الصَوارِمِ أَمضى

    grant a Hashimite glance upon sorrows

    that cut more keenly than the sharpest swords.

  25. اِفَتَرضى سَمِيَّ ذاتِكَ يَلقى

    مِن زَمانِ الأَسى بِنيرانِ رَمضا

    Would you be content that your own namesake should suffer

    scorching in the fires of an age of grief?

  26. هَذِهِ عِلَّتي وَأَنتَ طَبيبي

    قَد عَرَفتَ الدَواءَ عَرضاً وَنَبضا

    This is my malady, and you are my physician;

    you have discerned the cure from symptoms and pulse.

  27. كَم رَعَتهُ عِنايَةٌ مِنكَ يَوماً

    مِن عُيونِ ما إِن لَها عَنهُ إغضا

    Many a day your care has guarded him

    from eyes that never turn away from him.

  28. فَعَلَيكَ الصَلاةُ ما مِنكَ غَيثُ ال

    غَوثِ يَهمي وَوَمضُ بَرقِكَ قَد ضا

    So blessings be upon you, so long as from you the rain of

    succor pours and the flash of your lightning shines,

  29. وَعَلى آلِكَ الكِرامِ وَصَحبٍ

    ما شُمولُ القبولِ صافَحَ رَوضا

    and upon your noble family and Companions,

    so long as all-embracing acceptance clasps hands with a garden.