Harful Qaaf · حَرْفُ الْقَافِ

قَدِ اسْتَغْرَقَ الْـهَادِي فُؤَادِي وَقَدْ مَحَقْ
سِوَاهُ بِقَلْبِي حَالَــةَ السَّحْقِ وَالْمَحَـــــقْ

Qad istaghraqa al-Hādī fu’ādī wa-qad mahaq
Siwā-hu bi-qalbī ḥālata al-saḥ-qi wal-mahaq

The Guide (the Prophet) has completely immersed my heart and has erased everything besides him from my heart, in a state of total crushing and annihilation.

فَكَانَ مَعَاشِــــي وَانْتِعَاشِـــي بِذِكْــرِهِ
فَقُولُوا جِهَــارًا إِنَّ بَرْهَامَ قَدْ عَشِـــقْ

Fa-kāna ma‘āshī wan-ti‘āshī bi-dhikrihi
Fa-qūlū jihāran inna Bar-hāma qad ‘ashiq

My livelihood and my spiritual revival are through his remembrance; so say openly that Ibrahim has indeed fallen in love!

نَهَـــارِي كَلَيْلِي لاَ أَنِيــــسَ سِـــوَاؤُهُ
بِقَلْبِي دَوَامًا فَهْوَ بِالْمُصْطَفَى عَلِــــقْ

Nahārī ka-laylī lā anīsa siwā’uhu
Bi-qalbī dawāman fahuwa bil-Muṣṭafā ‘aliq

My day is like my night; I have no intimate companion besides him; my heart is perpetually attached to the Chosen One.

بِطَـــهَ أُعَـــادِي لاَ أُوَالِــــي بِغَيْـــرِهِ
فَحُبِّي وَبُغْضِي فِيهِ دَهْرًا كَمَنْ صَدَقْ

Bi-Ṭāhā u‘ādī lā uwālī bi-ghayrihi
Fa-ḥubbī wa-bugh-ḍī fīhi dahran ka-man ṣadaq

For the sake of Taha I show enmity, and I offer loyalty to none but him; thus my love and my hate are for his sake forever, like one who is truthful.

تَرَى جَمْعَ أَحْبَابِي وَذَا الْجَمْعُ مُفْــرَدٌ
وَشَمْلُ عَدُوِّي بَاطِـلٌ حَالَ وَانْمَحَــقْ

Tarā jam‘a aḥbābī wa-dhā al-jam‘u mufradun
Wa-sham-lu ‘aduwwī bāṭilun ḥāla wan-mahaq

You see the gathering of my beloveds, and this gathering is unique; while the ranks of my enemies are falsehood, transformed and erased.

بِمَدْحِي لِخَيْرِ الْخَلْـــقِ فَرَّقْتُ شَمْلَ مَـنْ
يُنَابِذُ دِيـــنَ الْـهَاشِمِـيِّ وَمَـــنْ مَــرَقْ

Bi-mad-ḥī li-khayri al-khal-qi farraq-tu sham-la man
Yunābidhu dīna al-Hāshimiyyi wa-man maraq

Through my praise for the Best of Creation, I have scattered the ranks of those who oppose the religion of the Hashemite and those who have defected.

عَلَيْـــــهِ صَــــلاَةُ اللّٰهِ ثُــــمَّ سَلاَمُـــهُ
أَفُوتُ بِهَا مَنْ فَاتَ قَبْلِي وَمَنْ لَحِـقْ

‘Alayhi ṣalātu Allāhi thumma salāmuhu
Afūtu bi-hā man fāta qablī wa-man laḥiq

Upon him be the prayer of Allah and then His peace; through it, I surpass those who went before me and those who follow.

عَلَيْــــهِ صَـــــلاَةُ اللّٰهِ ثُــــمَّ سَلاَمُــهُ
بِهَا الْعَبْدُ إِبْرَاهِيمُ لِلْمُصْطَفَى سَبَـــقْ

‘Alayhi ṣalātu Allāhi thumma salāmuhu
Bihā al-‘abdu Ibrāhīmu lil-Muṣṭafā sabaq

Upon him be the prayer of Allah and then His peace; through it, the servant Ibrahim has raced toward the Chosen One.

عَلَيْــــهِ صَــــلاَةُ اللّٰهِ ثُـــمَّ سَلاَمُـــهُ
بِهَــا مُزْنُ أَرْبَاحٍ نَشِيمُ لَنَـا بَـرَقْ

‘Alayhi ṣalātu Allāhi thumma salāmuhu
Bihā muznu arbāḥin nashīmu lanā baraq

Upon him be the prayer of Allah and then His peace; through it, the rain-clouds of spiritual profits have appeared to us like lightning.

عَلَيْهِ مَـــعَ الْآلِ الْكِـــرَامِ وَصَحْبِــهِ
إِلَى أَبَــدِ الْآبَــادِ مَــــا نَاطِقٌ نَطَـــقْ

‘Alayhi ma‘a al-āli al-kirāmi wa-ṣaḥ-bihi
Ila abadi al-ābādi mā nāṭiqun naṭaq

Upon him, along with the noble family and his companions, until the end of eternity, as long as any speaker speaks.