Harful Qaaf · حَرْفُ الْقَاف

قَدِ اسْتَوْجَبَ الشَّنَارَ وَالْعَـــارَ وَالْمَقْتَـا
فَتًى رَامَ فَصْلَ الْوَصْلِ أَوْ حَاوَلَ الْبَتَّا

Qadi-stawjaba-sh shanāra wa-l ʿāra wa-l maqta
fatan rāma faṣla-l waṣli aw ḥāwala-l batta

He has surely deserved ignominy, shame, and detestation—the youth who sought to sever the spiritual union or attempted its cutting.

فَإِنِّيَ مَنْ أَهْوَى وَحَــــقِّ صِفَاتِــهِ
بِرَغْمِ حَسُــــودٍ أَوْ مُنَـــاوٍ لَنَا بَتَّــا

Fa-inniya man ahwā wa ḥaqqi ṣifātihi
bi-raghmi ḥasūdin aw munāwin lanā batta

For I am the one I love, by the truth of his attributes, despite every envious one or opponent who has completely cut us off.

قَدْ أَحْبَبْتُــهُ حَتَّــــى أَرَانِــيَ كُنْتُــهُ
وَرَبِّيَ لَمْ يَخْلُــقْ مَكَانًا وَلاَ وَقْتَــا

Qad aḥbabtuhu ḥattā arānī kuntuhu
wa rabbī lam yakhluq makānan walā waqta

I loved him until he showed me that I was him, while my Lord had not yet created place or time.

فَجَاوَرْتُ طَـــهَ أَحْمَدَ الْبَدْرَ نَاصِرِي
وَحَاوَرَهُ شِعْرِي وَجَاوَرَنِي بَيْتَــــا

Fa-jāwartu Ṭāhā Aḥmada-l badra nāṣirī
wa ḥāwarahu shiʿrī wa jāwaranī bayta

So I neighbored Taha Ahmad, the full moon, my helper; my poetry conversed with him and he neighbored me in my house.

بَـــــدَا لِــي مُحَيَّــــاهُ حَبَانِـــي وِصَالَــهُ
وَمَنْ نَالَ سِرَّ الْمُصْطَفَى أَكْثَرَ الصَّمْتَا

Badā lī muḥayyāhu ḥabānī wiṣālahu
wa man nāla sirra-l muṣṭafā akthara-ṣ ṣamta

His countenance appeared to me and he gifted me his union; and whoever attains the secret of the Chosen one increases in silence.

وَإِنِّيَ مَوْصُـــولٌ وَأَحْمَـــــدُ عَائِــدٌ
إِلَيَّ قُبَيْلَ الْكَـــوْنِ وَالْكَــوْنُ مَا شَتَّــا

Wa inniya mawṣūlun wa Aḥmadu ʿā’idun
ilayya qubayla-l kawni wa-l kawnu mā shatta

And I am connected, and Ahmad is returning to me since before the universe, while the universe was not yet dispersed.

عَلَيْــــــهِ صَـــلاَةُ اللّٰهِ ثُــــــمَّ سَلاَمُـــهُ
وَآلٍ وَصَحْبٍ عَمَّرُوا الْوَقْتَ وَالْبَيْتَا

ʿAlayhi ṣalātu-llāhi thumma salāmuhu
wa ālin wa ṣaḥbin ʿammarū-l waqta wa-l bayta

Upon him be the blessings of Allah and then His peace, and upon the Family and Companions who filled the time and the House.