تَفِيضُ عُيُونِي بِالدُّمُوعِ السَّوَاكِبِ

تَفِيضُ عُيُونِي بِالدُّمُوعِ السَّوَاكِبِوَمَا لِيَ لَا أَبْكِي عَلَى خَيْرِ ذَاهِبِ

Tafīḍu ʿuyūnī bi-ad-dumūʿi as-sawākibi, Wamā liya lā abkī ʿalā khayri dhāhibi

My eyes overflow with streaming tears; how could I not weep for the best of things departed?

عَلَى العُمْرِ إِذْ وَلَّى وَحَانَ انْقِضَاؤُهُبِآمَالِ مَغْرُورٍ وَأَعْمَالِ نَاكِبِ

ʿalā al-ʿumri idh wallā waḥāna nqiḍāʾuhu, Biʾāmāli maghrūrin waʾaʿmāli nākibi

For my life, now that it has turned away and its end draws near, with the hopes of the deluded and the deeds of one who strayed;

عَلَى غُرَرِ الأَيَّامِ لَمَّا تَصَرَّمَتْوَأَصْبَحْتُ مِنْهَا رَهْنَ شُؤْمِ المَكَاسِبِ

ʿalā ghurari al-ʾayyāmi lammā taṣarramat, Waʾaṣbaḥtu minhā rahna shuʾmi al-makāsibi

For the finest of days, now that they have passed, and I am left in pledge to the misfortune of my earnings;

عَلَى زَهَرَاتِ العَيْشِ لَمَّا تَسَاقَطَتْبِرِيحِ الأَمَانِي وَالظُّنُونِ الكَوَاذِبِ

ʿalā zaharāti al-ʿayshi lammā tasāqaṭat, Birīḥi al-ʾamānī wa-aẓ-ẓunūni al-kawādhibi

For the flowers of life, now that they have fallen in the wind of wishes and false assumptions;

عَلَى أَشْرَفِ الأَوْقَاتِ لَمَّا غُبِنْتُهَابِأَسْوَاقِ غَبْنٍ بَيْنَ لَاهٍ وَلَاعِبِ

ʿalā ashrafi al-ʾawqāti lammā ghubintuhā, Biʾaswāqi ghabnin bayna lāhin walāʿibi

For the noblest of times, now that I have squandered them in markets of loss, among those who amuse themselves and play;

عَلَى أَنْفَسِ السَّاعَاتِ لَمَّا أَضَعْتُهَاوَقَضَّيْتُهَا فِي غَفْلَةٍ وَمَعَاطِبِ

ʿalā anfasi as-sāʿāti lammā aḍaʿtuhā, Waqaḍḍaytuhā fī ghaflatin wamaʿāṭibi

For the most precious hours, now that I have wasted them, spending them in heedlessness and ruin;

عَلَى صَرْفِيَ الأَنْفَاسَ فِي غَيْرِ طَائِلٍوَلَا نَافِعٍ مِنْ فَضْلِ عِلْمٍ وَوَاجِبِ

ʿalā ṣarfiya al-ʾanfāsa fī ghayri ṭāʾilin, Walā nāfiʿin min faḍli ʿilmin wawājibi

For spending my breaths on what is worthless, of no benefit in knowledge or in duty;

عَلَى مَا تَوَلَّى مِنْ زَمَانٍ قَضَيْتُهُوَزَجَّيْتُهُ فِي غَيْرِ حَقٍّ وَصَائِبِ

ʿalā mā tawallā min zamānin qaḍaytuhu, Wazajjaytuhu fī ghayri ḥaqqin waṣāʾibi

For the time that has gone, which I spent and whiled away in what was neither true nor right;

عَلَى فُرَصٍ كَانَتْ وَلَوْ أَنَّنِي انْتَهَزْتُهَا نِلْتُ فِيهَا مِنْ شَرِيفِ المَطَالِبِ

ʿalā furaṣin kānat walaw annanī ntahaz, Tuhā niltu fīhā min sharīfi al-maṭālibi

For opportunities that came, which, had I seized them, would have won me the noblest of aims;

وَأَحْيَانِ آنَاءٍ مِنَ الدَّهْرِ قَدْ مَضَتْضَيَاعاً وَكَانَتْ مَوْسِماً لِلرَّغَائِبِ

Waʾaḥyāni ʾānāʾin mina ad-dahri qad maḍat, Ḍayāʿan wakānat mawsiman lilrraghāʾibi

And moments of time that have passed in waste, though they were a season for great rewards;

عَلَى صُحُفٍ مَشْحُونَةٍ بِمَآثِمٍوَجُرْمٍ وَأَوْزَارٍ وَكَمْ مِنْ مَثَالِبِ

ʿalā ṣuḥufin mashḥūnatin bimaʾāthimin, Wajurmin waʾawzārin wakam min mathālibi

For pages crammed with sins, crimes and burdens, and so many vices;

عَلَى كَمْ ذُنُوبٍ كَمْ عُيُوبٍ وَزَلَّةٍوَسَيِّئَةٍ مَخْشِيَّةٍ فِي العَوَاقِبِ

ʿalā kam dhunūbin kam ʿuyūbin wazallatin, Wasayyiʾatin makhshiyyatin fī al-ʿawāqibi

For so many sins, so many faults and slips, and evil deeds whose consequences are to be feared;

عَلَى شَهَوَاتٍ كَانَتِ النَّفْسُ أَقْدَمَتْعَلَيْهَا بِطَبْعٍ مُسْتَحِثٍّ وَغَالِبِ

ʿalā shahawātin kānati an-nafsu aqdamat, ʿalayhā biṭabʿin mustaḥiththin waghālibi

For desires into which my soul rushed with a nature that urged it on and overpowered it;

عَلَى أَنَّنِي آثَرْتُ دُنْيَا دَنِيَّةًمُنَغَّصَةً مَشْحُونَةً بِالمَعَايِبِ

ʿalā annanī ʾāthartu dunyā daniyyatan, Munaghghaṣatan mashḥūnatan bi-al-maʿāyibi

For having preferred a lowly world, troubled and full of faults;

عَلَى عَمَلٍ لِلْعِلْمِ غَيْرِ مُوَافِقٍوَمَا فَضْلُ عِلْمٍ دُونَ فِعْلٍ مُنَاسِبِ

ʿalā ʿamalin lilʿilmi ghayri muwāfiqin, Wamā faḍlu ʿilmin dūna fiʿlin munāsibi

For deeds that did not accord with knowledge; what merit has knowledge without fitting deeds?

عَلَى فِعْلِ طَاعَاتٍ بِغَيْرِ تَوَجُّهٍوَمِنْ غَيْرِ إِخْلَاصٍ وَقَلْبٍ مُرَاقِبِ

ʿalā fiʿli ṭāʿātin bighayri tawajjuhin, Wamin ghayri ikhlāṣin waqalbin murāqibi

For acts of obedience without true turning to Him, without sincerity or a watchful heart.

أُصَلِّي الصَّلَاةَ الخَمْسَ وَالقَلْبُ جَائِلٌبِأَوْدِيَةِ الوَسْوَاسِ مِنْ كُلِّ جَانِبِ

Uṣallī aṣ-ṣalāta al-khamsa wa-al-qalbu jāʾilun, Biʾawdiyati al-waswāsi min kulli jānibi

I perform the five prayers while my heart roams through the valleys of whispering on every side;

عَلَى أَنَّنِي أَتْلُو القُرَانَ كِتَابَهُتَعَالَى بِقَلْبٍ ذَاهِلٍ غَيْرِ رَاهِبِ

ʿalā annanī atlū al-qurāna kitābahu, Taʿālā biqalbin dhāhilin ghayri rāhibi

For reciting the Qur'an, His Book, exalted is He, with a distracted heart and without awe;

عَلَى أَنَّنِي قَدْ أَذْكُرُ اللهَ خَالِقِيبِغَيْرِ حُضُورٍ لَازِمٍ وَمُصَاحِبِ

ʿalā annanī qad adhkuru Allāha khāliqī, Bighayri ḥuḍūrin lāzimin wamuṣāḥibi

For remembering Allah, my Creator, without constant and abiding presence;

عَلَى طُولِ آمَالٍ كَثِيرٍ غُرُورُهَاوَنِسْيَانِ مَوْتٍ وَهْوَ أَقْرَبُ غَائِبِ

ʿalā ṭūli ʾāmālin kathīrin ghurūruhā, Wanisyāni mawtin wahwa aqrabu ghāʾibi

For long hopes, so full of delusion, and forgetting death, though it is the nearest of absent things;

عَلَى أَنَّنِي لَا أَذْكُرُ القَبْرَ وَالبِلَىكَثِيراً وَسَفْراً ذَاهِباً غَيْرَ آيِبِ

ʿalā annanī lā adhkuru al-qabra wa-al-bilā, Kathīran wasafran dhāhiban ghayra ʾāyibi

For rarely remembering the grave and decay, and a journey that departs never to return;

عَلَى أَنَّنِي عَنْ يَوْمِ بَعْثِي وَمَحْشَرِيوَعَرْضِي وَمِيزَانِي وَتِلْكَ المَصَاعِبِ

ʿalā annanī ʿan yawmi baʿthī wamaḥsharī, Waʿarḍī wamīzānī watilka al-maṣāʿibi

For, as to the Day of my resurrection and gathering, my presentation, my scales and all those hardships,

مَوَاقِفُ مِنْ أَهْوَالِهَا وَخُطُوبِهَايَشِيبُ مِنَ الوِلْدَانِ شَعْرُ الذَّوَائِبِ

Mawāqifu min ahwālihā wakhuṭūbihā, Yashību mina al-wildāni shaʿru adh-dhawāʾibi

Stations whose terrors and calamities turn grey the locks of children,

تَغَافَلْتُ حَتَّى صِرْتُ مِنْ فَرْطِ غَفْلَتِيكَأَنِّي لَا أَدْرِي بِتِلْكَ المَرَاهِبِ

Taghāfaltu ḥattā ṣirtu min farṭi ghaflatī, Kaʾannī lā adrī bitilka al-marāhibi

I feigned heedlessness until, from my excessive heedlessness, it is as though I knew nothing of those terrors;

عَلَى النَّارِ أَنِّي مَا هَجَرْتُ سَبِيلَهَاوَلَا خِفْتُ مِنْ حَيَّاتِهَا وَالعَقَارِبِ

ʿalā an-nāri annī mā hajartu sabīlahā, Walā khiftu min ḥayyātihā wa-al-ʿaqāribi

For the Fire: that I have not forsaken its path, nor feared its snakes and scorpions;

عَلَى السَّعْيِ لِلْجَنَّاتِ دَارِ النَّعِيمِ وَالْكَرَامَةِ وَالزُّلْفَى وَنَيْلِ المَآرِبِ

ʿalā as-saʿyi liljannāti dāri an-naʿīmi wa-al-, Karāmati wa-az-zulfā wanayli al-maʾāribi

For my neglect of striving toward the Gardens, the abode of bliss and honour, nearness, and the fulfilment of hopes,

مِنَ العِزِّ وَالمُلْكِ المُخَلَّدِ وَالبَقَاوَمَا تَشْتَهِيهِ النَّفْسُ مِنْ كُلِّ طَالِبِ

Mina al-ʿizzi wa-al-mulki al-mukhalladi wa-al-baqā, Wamā tashtahīhi an-nafsu min kulli ṭālibi

Of glory, everlasting dominion and permanence, and all that the soul desires of every wish;

وَأَكْبَرُ مِنْ هَذَا رِضَا الرَّبِّ عَنْهُمُوَرُؤْيَتُهُمْ إِيَّاهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ حَاجِبِ

Waʾakbaru min hadhā riḍā ar-rabbi ʿanhumu, Waruʾyatuhum iyyāhu min ghayri ḥājibi

And greater than this is the Lord's good pleasure with its people, and their seeing Him without any veil.

فَآهٍ عَلَى عَيْشِ الأَحِبَّةِ نَاعِماًهَنِيّاً مُصَفّىً مِنْ جَمِيعِ الشَّوَائِبِ

Faʾāhin ʿalā ʿayshi al-ʾaḥibbati nāʿiman, Haniyyan muṣaffan min jamīʿi ash-shawāʾibi

Ah, for the life of the beloved ones, blissful, wholesome, pure of every blemish!

وَآهٍ عَلَيْنَا فِي غُرُورٍ وَغَفْلَةٍعَنِ المَلَإِ الأَعْلَى وَقُرْبِ الحَبَايِبِ

Waʾāhin ʿalaynā fī ghurūrin waghaflatin, ʿani al-malaʾi al-ʾaʿlā waqurbi al-ḥabāyibi

And ah for us, deluded and heedless of the Highest Assembly and nearness to the beloveds!

وَآهٍ عَلَى مَا فَاتَ مِنْ هَدْيِ سَادَةٍوَمِنْ سِيَرٍ مَحْمُودَةٍ وَمَذَاهِبِ

Waʾāhin ʿalā mā fāta min hadyi sādatin, Wamin siyarin maḥmūdatin wamadhāhibi

And ah for what I have missed of the guidance of the masters, their praiseworthy lives and ways;

عَلَى مَا لَهُمْ مِنْ هِمَّةٍ وَعَزِيمَةٍوَجِدٍّ وَتَشْمِيرٍ لِنَيْلِ المَرَاتِبِ

ʿalā mā lahum min himmatin waʿazīmatin, Wajiddin watashmīrin linayli al-marātibi

For their aspiration and resolve, their earnestness and readiness to attain the ranks;

عَلَى مَا لَهُمْ مِنْ عِفَّةٍ وَفُتُوَّةٍوَزُهْدٍ وَتَجْرِيدٍ وَقَطْعِ الجَوَاذِبِ

ʿalā mā lahum min ʿiffatin wafutuwwatin, Wazuhdin watajrīdin waqaṭʿi al-jawādhibi

For their chastity and chivalry, their renunciation, detachment and cutting of worldly ties;

عَلَى مَا لَهُمْ مِنْ عُزْلَةٍ وَسِيَاحَةٍبِقَفْرِ الفَيَافِي وَالرِّمَالِ السَّبَاسِبِ

ʿalā mā lahum min ʿuzlatin wasiyāḥatin, Biqafri al-fayāfī wa-ar-rimāli as-sabāsibi

For their seclusion and wandering in the empty wastes and the vast sands;

عَلَى مَا لَهُمْ فِي صَوْمِ كُلِّ هَجِيرَةٍوَمِنْ خَلْوَةٍ بِاللهِ تَحْتَ الغَيَاهِبِ

ʿalā mā lahum fī ṣawmi kulli hajīratin, Wamin khalwatin billāhi taḥta al-ghayāhibi

For their fasting through every scorching midday, and their retreats alone with Allah beneath the darkness;

عَلَى الصَّبْرِ وَالشُّكْرِ اللَّذَيْنِ تَحَقَّقُواوَصِدْقٍ وَإِخْلَاصٍ وَكَمْ مِنْ مَنَاقِبِ

ʿalā aṣ-ṣabri wa-ash-shukri al-ladhayni taḥaqqaqū, Waṣidqin waʾikhlāṣin wakam min manāqibi

For the patience and gratitude they realised, and truthfulness, sincerity and so many virtues;

عَلَى مَا صَفَا مِنْ قُرْبِهِمْ وَشُهُودِهِمْوَمَا طَابَ مِنْ أَذْوَاقِهِمْ وَالمَشَارِبِ

ʿalā mā ṣafā min qurbihim washuhūdihim, Wamā ṭāba min adhwāqihim wa-al-mashāribi

For the purity of their nearness and their witnessing, and the sweetness of their spiritual tastes and drinking places.

فَكَمْ بِفُؤَادِي مِنْ غَلِيلٍ وَمِنْ أَسىًوَمِنْ حَسَرَاتٍ مُتْعِبَاتٍ غَوَالِبِ

Fakam bifuʾādī min ghalīlin wamin asan, Wamin ḥasarātin mutʿibātin ghawālibi

How much burning thirst and grief is in my heart, and wearying, overwhelming regrets!

وَكَمْ مِنْ دُمُوعٍ فِي الخُدُودِ سَوَاكِبٍتَجُودُ بِهَا سُحْبُ الجُفُونِ الذَّوَائِبِ

Wakam min dumūʿin fī al-khudūdi sawākibin, Tajūdu bihā suḥbu al-jufūni adh-dhawāʾibi

How many tears stream down my cheeks, poured by the clouds of my melting eyelids!

وَلَوْ أَنَّنِي أَبْكِي الدُّمُوعَ وَبَعْدَهَا الْدِّمَاءَ عَلَى مَا فَاتَنِي يَا مُعَاتِبِي

Walaw annanī abkī ad-dumūʿa wabaʿdahā al-, Ddimāʾa ʿalā mā fātanī yā muʿātibī

Even if I wept tears, and after them blood, over what I have missed, O you who reproach me,

لَكَانَ قَلِيلاً فِي كَثِيرٍ وَمَا عَسَىيَرُدُّ البُكَا مِنْ ذَاهِبٍ أَيِّ ذَاهِبِ

Lakāna qalīlan fī kathīrin wamā ʿasā, Yaruddu al-bukā min dhāhibin ayyi dhāhibi

It would be little against much; and what can weeping bring back of what is gone, however it is gone?

فَأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللهَ العَظِيمَ جَلَالُهُوَقُدْرَتُهُ فِي شَرْقِهَا وَالمَغَارِبِ

Faʾastaghfiru Allāha al-ʿaẓīma jalāluhu, Waqudratuhu fī sharqihā wa-al-maghāribi

So I seek forgiveness from Allah the Mighty, whose majesty and power fill the East and the West.

إِلَيْهِ مَتَابِي وَهْوَ حَسْبِي وَمَلْجَئِيوَلِيْ أَمَلٌ فِي عَطْفِهِ غَيْرُ خَائِبِ

Ilayhi matābī wahwa ḥasbī wamaljaʾī, Waliy amalun fī ʿaṭfihi ghayru khāʾibi

To Him is my repentance; He is my sufficiency and my refuge, and I have a hope in His kindness that will not be disappointed.

وَأَسْأَلُهُ التَّوْفِيقَ فِيمَا بَقِيْ لِمَايُحِبُّ وَيَرْضَى فَهْوَ أَسْنَى المَطَالِبِ

Waʾasʾaluhu at-tawfīqa fīmā baqiy limā, Yuḥibbu wayarḍā fahwa asnā al-maṭālibi

I ask Him for success, in what remains, in what He loves and is pleased with, for that is the loftiest of aims,

وَأَنْ يَتَغَشَّانَا بِعَفْوٍ وَرَحْمَةٍوَفَضْلٍ وَإِحْسَانٍ وَسَتْرِ المَعَايِبِ

Waʾan yataghashshānā biʿafwin waraḥmatin, Wafaḍlin waʾiḥsānin wasatri al-maʿāyibi

And that He cover us with pardon and mercy, bounty, kindness, and the veiling of faults,

وَأَنْ يَتَوَلَّانَا بِلُطْفٍ وَرَأْفَةٍوَحِفْظٍ يَقِينَا شَرَّ كُلِّ المَعَاطِبِ

Waʾan yatawallānā biluṭfin waraʾfatin, Waḥifẓin yaqīnā sharra kulli al-maʿāṭibi

And that He take charge of us with gentleness and compassion, and a protection that guards us from the evil of every ruin,

وَأَنْ يَتَوَفَّانَا عَلَى خَيْرِ مِلَّةٍعَلَى مِلَّةِ الإِسْلَامِ خَيْرِ المَوَاهِبِ

Waʾan yatawaffānā ʿalā khayri millatin, ʿalā millati al-ʾislāmi khayri al-mawāhibi

And that He take us in death upon the best of faiths, the faith of Islam, the best of gifts,

مُقِيمِينَ لِلْقُرْآنِ وَالسُّنَّةِ الَّتِيأَتَانَا بِهَا عَالِي الذُّرَى وَالمَرَاتِبِ

Muqīmīna lilqurʾāni wa-as-sunnati al-latī, Atānā bihā ʿālī adh-dhurā wa-al-marātibi

Upholding the Qur'an and the Sunna brought to us by the one of the highest summit and ranks,

مُحَمَّدٌ الهَادِي البَشِيرُ نَبِيُّنَاوَسَيِّدُنَا بَحْرُ الهُدَى وَالمَنَاقِبِ

Muḥammadun al-hādī al-bashīru nabiyyunā, Wasayyidunā baḥru al-hudā wa-al-manāqibi

Muhammad, the guide, the bearer of glad tidings, our Prophet and our master, the ocean of guidance and virtues.

عَلَيْهِ صَلَاةُ اللهِ ثُمَّ سَلَامُهُوَآلٍ وَأَصْحَابٍ لَهُ كَالكَوَاكِبِ

ʿalayhi ṣalātu Allāhi thumma salāmuhu, Waʾālin waʾaṣḥābin lahu ka-al-kawākibi

Upon him be the blessings of Allah and His peace, and upon his family and Companions, who are like the stars.