Sol 6.1

  1. ترقب سنا الوادي الكريم المقدس

    وإن لاح فاخلع نعل خوفك والمس

    Await the radiance of the noble, sacred valley.

    And if it appears, remove the sandal of your fear, and touch.

  2. ومزّق جلابيب الغنى عنه واتزر

    بمئزر محتاج لجدواه مفلس

    Rend the robes of independence from Him, and gird yourself

    With the waistcloth of one needing His bounty, utterly destitute.

  3. وكن عبد رق ذل في عز حبه

    تناجى على طور عزيز مقدس

    Be a bondsman, humbled in the glory of His love;

    You will be addressed in confidence upon a mighty, sacred mount.

  4. ومحق دجى الأغبار من كل قاطع

    تحف بأنوار الجليل المقدس

    Efface the dusty darkness of every hindrance;

    You will be enfolded in the lights of the Majestic, the Holy.

  5. ومرغ على وجه الثرى خدك الذي

    حوى الدمع في أخدوده جري كنس

    Rub upon the earth's surface that cheek of yours which

    Held tears in its furrow, coursing like retreating stars.

  6. ويمم حمى المحبوب وأقدم بذلة

    على ربا كيما ترقي خير مجلس

    Turn toward the beloved's sanctuary, and advance in humility

    Upon the heights, that you may ascend to the finest gathering.

  7. وأذن بحج العقل كعبة رشده

    بلبيك يا داعي الراشد أنس أنس

    Proclaim the mind's pilgrimage to the Kaaba of its right guidance,

    With 'At your service, O caller of the rightly guided!'—take comfort, take comfort.

  8. وشيد جدار الدين وارفع مناره

    وأسس على التقوى بناك وهندس

    Build the wall of religion, and raise its beacon;

    Found your building upon piety, and design it well.

  9. وغلس فعند الصبح يبتهج السرى

    وهل يشهد الإصلاح غير المغلس

    Set out before dawn: at daybreak, night travel brings delight.

    Who witnesses renewal but the traveler before dawn?

  10. وسفر جواري الفكر في أبحر الهدى

    لتري في مرسى الأمان المطلمس

    Send thought's ships voyaging upon the seas of guidance,

    That you may be seen in safety's talisman-guarded harbor.

  11. ورض أعوجيّ النفس والهوى

    وسارع إلى مرضات خالق الأنفس

    Tame the Aʿwaj-bred steed of the self and desire,

    And hasten to please the Creator of souls.

  12. وصن دوحة الأوقات واحرث بقاعها

    وسلسل بها نهر العبادة وأغرس

    Guard the great tree of your hours, and till its grounds;

    Make worship's river flow through it, and plant.

  13. ونق ثراها من قتاد عيوبها

    وخطر لها من قاطع الشغل واحرس

    Clear its soil of the thornbushes of its faults;

    Protect it from interrupting occupations, and keep watch.

  14. وعاقب واراقب واكشف كل غاية

    بدايتها تقفوه بردف مؤسس

    Discipline yourself, keep watch, and uncover every end

    Whose beginning you trace with a firmly founded sequel.

  15. ووجه لوجه الحق وجه مقصر

    وطهر بماء الحق رجس التوسوس

    Turn a failing servant's face toward the face of Truth,

    And cleanse obsessive whispering's defilement with Truth's water.

  16. ومرر قضايا الصدق في كل منطق

    فتأتي ببرهان من الحق أقبس

    Run truthful propositions through every discourse,

    And bring forth a proof kindled from Truth.

  17. وراع اتباع الحق في كل لحظة

    ولاحظ علاه عند كل تنفس

    Observe the following of Truth at every moment,

    And contemplate His loftiness with every breath.

  18. وغب عنك تشهدوا بفضل منك تتصل

    ومت فيك تجبى واطرح النفس ترأس

    Vanish from yourself and witness; through grace from you, attain union.

    Die to yourself and be gathered in; cast the self aside and you will lead.

  19. ونول من استعطاك واستزر من نأى

    وكاف على المعروف وأحسن لمن يس

    Give to whoever asks of you, and invite the distant to visit;

    Repay kindness, and do good to whoever does ill.

  20. ورتل كلام الله وأنس بذكره

    فإن كلام الله أجمل مؤنس

    Recite God's word with measured care, and find comfort in remembering Him,

    For God's word is the finest companion.

  21. ووجه إلى المختار أنفس مدحة

    فمدح رسول الله أنفس أنفس

    Offer the Chosen One your most precious praise,

    For praise of God's Messenger is the most precious of souls.

  22. رسول دعا للحق بالحق فاهتدى

    منيب وولى كل باغ مرجس

    A Messenger who called to Truth through Truth, and so was guided

    The repentant one, while every defiled transgressor turned away.

  23. تقدم قبل القبل معنى حديثه

    وأصبح بعد البعد سر التأنس

    The meaning of his discourse preceded the very before,

    And after the very after became the secret of intimacy.

  24. بمولده الأكوان هامت وأشرقت

    قصور ببصري في ظلام معسعس

    At his birth, the worlds were enraptured, and shone

    Palaces in Busra amid the deepening darkness.

  25. وشقّ له إيوان كسرى مهابة

    وشيد به ركن المليك المقوقس

    For him, Khusraw's vaulted hall split in awe,

    And through him the pillar of King al-Muqawqis was strengthened.

  26. وغاض له الوادي ارتياعا كما انطفت

    بأنواره نيران كسرى التمجس

    For him the valley's waters sank in terror, just as were quenched

    By his lights the Magian fires of Khusraw.

  27. وقام به المعنى اصطفاء لنه

    هو الجوهر الصافي الذي لم يدنس

    In him the inner meaning stood forth through election, because

    He is the pure jewel that was never defiled.

  28. وصيره مولاه مظهر سره

    وصوره من فائض النور المقدس

    His Lord made him the manifestation of His secret,

    And fashioned him from the overflow of sacred light.

  29. وصاغ به الأكوان ثم لأجله

    يرى ما حوته من فصيح وأخرس

    Through him He fashioned the worlds; then, for his sake,

    All they contain is seen, articulate and mute.

  30. وشرفه وضعا ورفع قدره

    على الفلك الأعلى المحيط بالأطلس

    He ennobled his station and raised his rank

    Above the highest sphere, encompassing the starless sphere.

  31. وأسرى به ليلا من المسجد النقي

    إلى المسجد الأقصى الشريف المهندس

    He bore him by night from the pure mosque

    To the noble, finely designed al-Aqsa Mosque.

  32. وأم بأملاك الإله ورسله

    لدى مشهد جم كريم مؤنس

    He led God's angels and His messengers in prayer

    At a vast, noble, comforting assembly.

  33. ومنه ارتقى المعراج في حفظ ربه

    وأشهده أسرار معنى القدس

    From there he ascended the heavenly stairway under his Lord's protection,

    And He showed him the secrets of holiness's inner meaning.

  34. وناداه يا عبدي تمتع برؤية

    أرتك جميل الذات بالحسن مكسى

    He called to him, 'My servant, delight in a vision

    That showed you the beauty of the Essence, clothed in loveliness.

  35. فأنت مرادي فيك أودعت حكمتي

    فمن شاء فليؤمن ومن شاء يلبس

    You are My desire; in you I have placed My wisdom.

    Let whoever wills believe, and whoever wills obscure the truth.

  36. فلولاك لم أبرز عرائس حكمة

    تتوج بالمعنى وبالسر تكتسي

    But for you, I would not have brought forth the brides of wisdom,

    Crowned with meaning and clothed in mystery.

  37. ولولاك ما زنت السماء بأنجم

    ولم ألبس الأرضين أثواب سندس

    But for you, I would not have adorned heaven with stars,

    Nor clothed the earths in garments of fine silk.

  38. ولولاك لم أبد الوجود بآسره

    على مقتضى الحال البديع المؤنس

    But for you, I would not have manifested existence in its entirety,

    In keeping with its wondrous, heartening state.

  39. خلقتك من نوري وفيك أبنت ما

    أردته فأنت السر في كل أنفس

    I created you from My light, and in you made manifest what

    I desired: you are the secret within every soul.'

  40. هو النقطة الأولى التي امتد خطها

    فمدت بها أشكال وضع مهندس

    He is the first point, whose line extended,

    And through it unfolded the forms of a master builder's design.

  41. هو الشمس لا والله بل منه أشرقت

    ولولا سماه ما محت كل حندس

    He is the sun—no, by God! Rather, from him it shone;

    But for his heaven, it would not have effaced every darkness.

  42. هو الروض بل أزكى ولولاه ما بدت

    محاسنه للناظر المتفرّس

    He is the garden—rather, more fragrant; but for him, there would not appear

    Its beauties to the discerning beholder.

  43. هو الغيث بل أندى ولولاه ما جرت

    دموع غيروم في محاجر نرجس

    He is the rain—rather, more bountiful; but for him, there would not flow

    Clouds' tears in the eye-sockets of narcissi.

  44. هو الليث بل أعدى ولولاه ما سمت

    مسارح آرام بصوله عنبس

    He is the lion—rather, fiercer; but for him, there would not rise

    The gazelles' pastures through his charge as a mighty lion.

  45. هو النجم الساري هو الصبح للهدى

    هو الغيث للعافي هو الغوث للنسي

    He is the traveling star, he is guidance's dawn;

    He is rain to the supplicant, aid to the forgotten.

  46. هو الشافع المقبول إن ضجت الورى

    من الموقف الضنك الشديد المعبس

    He is the accepted intercessor when creation cries out

    At the straitened, harsh, grim gathering.

  47. إمام هدى لولا احتراس الهدى به

    من الزيغ لم يحفظ علاه ويحرس

    An imam of guidance: had guidance not been safeguarded by him

    From deviation, its loftiness would not have been preserved and guarded.

  48. علقت بحبل منه فاعتز جانبي

    وآمنت من كبد العدو الموسوس

    I clung to a rope from him, and my side grew strong;

    And I found safety from the torment of the whispering enemy.

  49. ألم ترني صيرت جودك مديحه

    شعارا ينسي كل سهم مقرطس

    Have you not seen me make your bounty—his praise—

    An inner garment that makes every well-aimed arrow forgotten?

  50. ولم لا أوقى كل هول ومدحه

    مدامي نقلي وادكاري ومؤنسي

    Why should I not be shielded from every terror, when his praise

    Is my wine, my sweetmeats, my remembrance, and my companion?

  51. وهل هو إلا نور عيني ومهجتي

    وسر وجودي والمعد لمرمسي

    What is he but the light of my eye and my heart,

    The secret of my existence, and my provision for the grave?

  52. فيا أنس أفكاري وإنسان ناظري

    ويا روح جثماني وروح تنفس

    O comfort of my thoughts and pupil of my eye,

    O soul of my body and ease of breathing,

  53. ومن دينه فرض على كل مبصر

    ومن حبه حتم على كل كيس

    You whose religion is a duty upon every discerning person,

    Whose love is binding upon every person of understanding,

  54. ويا من أياديه ومعنى حديثه

    قلائد أعناق وريحان أنفس

    O you whose favors and whose discourse's meaning

    Are necklaces for necks and sweet basil for souls,

  55. قصدتك ذا ذنب وأنت مشفع

    فكن شافعي من موبقات تدنسي

    I have sought you burdened with sin, while your intercession is accepted;

    So be my intercessor against the ruinous sins that stain me.

  56. وخذ بيدي إن زلت الرجل واحمنى

    بجاهك من خطب الزمان المعكس

    Take my hand if my foot slips, and protect me

    Through your standing, from the calamities of adverse time.

  57. فأنت ملاذي إن تضعضع جانبي

    لمائل وزر كالح الوجه أطلس

    You are my refuge if my strength collapses

    Beneath a swaying burden of sin, grim-faced and dust-gray.

  58. وأنت الذي أرجو وحاشاك يا فتى

    أخيّب من غيم كثير التجسس

    You are the one I hope in—and far be it from you, noble youth,

    To be more disappointing than a cloud so intently watched.

  59. فكن لي كما أرجو فلست بسائل

    إذا كنت لي هل يحسن الدهر أو يسي

    So be to me as I hope; I shall not ask,

    If you are mine, whether time does good or ill.

  60. وها أنا قد صيرت مدحك حجة

    لأدلي بها عند السؤال المنكس

    Here I have made your praise an argument

    To plead at the humbling questioning.

  61. عسى حاكم التعديل يقبل حجتي

    فأصبح عدلا بعد فرط تدلس

    Perhaps the Judge of rectitude will accept my plea,

    And I shall become upright after excessive dissembling;

  62. ويسجن حصم الذنب في سجن محوه

    وأبرا منه بعد ذاك التدنس

    And imprison the foe, sin, in the prison of its effacement,

    And I shall be free of it after that defilement.

  63. فيا ربه يا الله يا سامع الدعا

    ويا ملجأ العاني ويا مرتجى المسمي

    O his Lord, O God, O Hearer of prayer,

    O refuge of the captive, O hope of the one invoking Your name,

  64. ويا كنز محتاج ويا أمن خائف

    ويا بشر محزون ويا أنس مؤنس

    O treasure of the needy, O safety of the fearful,

    O gladness of the sorrowful, O comfort of the comforter,

  65. ومن بعود للمقام وزمزم

    وزورة طه الأفضل البر الأرأس

    Grant a return to the Station and Zamzam,

    And a visit to Taha, the best, the righteous, the foremost.

  66. وسدد طريق ابن الخلوف وجازه

    بوابل حود هامل متبجّس

    Set Ibn al-Khuluf upon the straight path, and reward him

    With a streaming, gushing downpour of generosity.

  67. ويسّر أموري وأوف ديني ونجّني

    من النار وارفع في علا عدن مجلس

    Ease my affairs, discharge my debt, and save me

    From the Fire, and raise my seat in Eden's heights.

  68. ووفق وسامح واكشف الضر واستجب

    فأنت عمادي في حياتي ومؤنسي

    Grant success, forgive, remove distress, and answer;

    You are my support in life and my companion.

  69. وكن لأمير المؤمنين وصن به

    حمى الدين من غارات أهل التمجس

    Stand by the Commander of the Faithful, and through him protect

    The sanctuary of religion from the raids of the Magians.

  70. وكن لوليّ العهد يا برّ آكسه

    بفضلك في الدارين أجمل ملبس

    Stand by the heir apparent, O Beneficent One; clothe him

    By Your grace, in the fairest garment in both abodes.

  71. وعامل جميع جميع المسلمي وعج على

    شيوخي بعفو مستبد محبس

    Deal with all, all the Muslims, and turn toward

    My teachers with a sovereign, restraining pardon.

  72. ولا تخز آبائي وأهلي وجيرتي

    بعزة يعقوب وحرمة يونس

    Do not disgrace my fathers, my family, or my neighbors,

    By Jacob's honor and Jonah's sanctity.

  73. ول على المختار ما ناح طائر

    على أغصن لدن المعاطف ميس

    And [bless] the Chosen One whenever a bird laments

    Upon boughs with supple, swaying bends,

  74. وعترته والصحب ما ألبس الحيا

    عرائس روض الزهر أثواب سندس

    And his household and companions, whenever rain clothes

    The brides of the flower-garden in garments of fine silk.