Other versions:
Ref 1 :
Lâ -ilâha -illa Llâhu (x3)
Muhammadun -arsalahu
Ref 2 :
Biman -atânâ marhaban biman -atânâ yâ marhaban
Wajhun -afnânâ wa -ilâ lhudâ da‘ânâ yâ marhabâ
Ref 3 :
Yâ -ahla baytil Mustafâ jûdû ‘alaynâ bil wafâ (x2)
-Antum furûdî wa naflî -antum hadîthî wa chughlî
Yâ qiblatî fî salâtî -idhâ waqaftu -usallî
Jamâlukum nasba ‘aynî -ilayhi wajjahtu kullî
Wa sirrukum fî damîrî wal qalbu tawra ttajallî
-Anastu fi lhayyî nâran laylan fabachchartu -ahlî
Qultu mkuthû fala‘allî -ajid hudâya la‘allî
Dânawtu minhâ fakânat nâral mukallami qablî
Nûdîtu minhâ kifâhan ruddû layaliya waslî
Hattâ -idhâ mâ tadânâl mîqâtu fî jam‘i chamlî
Sârat jibâliya dakkân min haybatil mutajallî
Wa laha sirrun khafiyyun yadrîhi man kâna mithlî
Wa sirtu mûsâ zamânî mudh sâra ba‘diya kullî
Fâl mawtu fîhi hayâtî wa fî hayâtiya qatlî
-Ana lfaqîrul mu‘annâ riqqû lihâliya wa dhullî
Translation 1:
O you, Family of the Chosen One
O descendants of the Moustafâ 1, grant me 2 faithfulness
You who are my obligations and my supererogations, My word and my occupation
O you who are my qibla 3 in every prayer
Your beauty stands before my eyes, Towards it I turn my All
Your secret is in my conscience, My heart on the way to tajallî 4
In the night I saw a Fire in the Living 5, So I gave the good news to my people.
I said to them: “Stay, perhaps I shall find my way, perhaps”
I drew near and perceived That it was the Fire of the one who preceded me.
The Fire told me openly To turn my nights into Union, Thus, when the Hour of my Union strikes.
My mountains will crumble before the fear of the Moutajallî 6
My part will become my All, and I shall become the Moses of my time
A hidden secret will appear, That only those like me will know
For in death there is my life and in my life there is my death.
I am a fakir held captive, Have compassion for my state and my humility
1 Moustafâ: the Chosen One, a name of the Prophet.
2 In the original text “grant us”.
3 Qibla: The direction one faces to pray.
4 Tajallî: Translations differ: illumination, theophanic irradiation, epiphany, transfiguration.
The common meaning of the verb from which the word derives is: to appear, to come into view, to become manifest, to be unveiled, to show oneself.
5 Divine name Alhayy, THE LIVING
Translation 2:
(Translation by Youssef LOUAFI, Soufisme d’Orient et d’Occident, no. 1)
O Family of the Chosen One, of the Prophet, Be infinitely generous towards us.
I speak only through you and you are the object of my study.
My orison is turned towards you.
When I stand to pray,
Your beauty is manifest to my eyes;
Towards it, I turn wholly.
Your secret is in the depth of my conscience.
The heart is the mount of revelation.
One night, I glimpsed a living Fire,
I gave the good news to my people:
“Stay here!”, I told them, “Perhaps I shall find my way there.”
As I drew near, I discovered that it was the same Fire that spoke to Moses before me.
It is He who urged perseverance upon me,
And who led me, in my nights of prayer, to union with God.
A union so strong that when the appointed time
For its revelation had come,
My mountains were annihilated under the reverential fear of the One who radiates.
An imperceptible secret appeared to me.
Only one who is what I am can grasp its meaning.
I became the Moses of my age.
The relative being that I was merged with the absolute Being.
In death in Him is my life, and in my life is my death.
I am the fakir who has suffered.
Understand my state and my humility.
