1. The ships of loved ones, truly the tears
Flow down the cheeks like flowing torrents

2. So recognize who has set you against me
And walk gently in times of affliction and submission

3. Shyness used to prevent me from crying
Today, crying prevents it from preventing

4. It is as if every bone has a lament
In its skin and every vein a tear

5. It is enough that one who exposed secrets openly
Betrayed his lover and my death with death

6. She traveled and absence made her sallow
Concealing her eyelids without kohl

7. As if she were gold with pearls streaming down her
Adorned with threaded strands of pearls

8. She revealed three braids of her hair
In one night so I saw four nights

9. She turned her face to the moon in the sky
Showing me two moons at the same time

10. Return the union that gave drink to your long separation
If your union were like it would not fade

11. A man who shows you the atmosphere as fire and salt
As a meadow, green like the sea and hills

12. Like the meadows of Abdul Waheed, so green
Who gives drink and safety to whom he wills, and terror

13. He mastered manliness from when he was born
As if he was fed as a suckling milk mixed with frankincense

14. His virtues were threaded onto him like amulets
So he got used to them and when they fell he panicked

15. He left arts shining like meteors
And sublime deeds spread open like banners

16. Smiling at his chastity instead of something clearly shameful
His splendors overwhelm the gleaming lightnings

17. Baring his weapons instead of tyranny
If its shoulder shook the heavens it would shake them

18. The resolute, vigilant, daring, knowledgeable, discerning
Quick-witted, pleasant, delightful, outstanding one

19. The elegant, eloquent, generous, ingenious writer
Of pleasant company, the excellent debater

20. A soul whose nature is that of time, for
It destroys souls and divides what is joined

21. And a hand whose generosity is that of clouds, for
It gives drink to dwellings and barren land

22. He forever reconciles and restores
An abundant clan and brings together a split one

23. He trembles with resolve like a bent spear
Shook by hope one day and awareness another day

24. O you who sing the hopes of the destitute with your presence
And whose prayer after prayers when you pray

25. You fell short and were not stingy, you fulfilled your duty
And reached where the stars wander in groups of four

26. And attained positions of glorious deeds
That neither of the two precious ones attained

27. And contained their superiority - none aspired
To it, nor aspired that he would aspire

28. Fate carried out what you wanted as if
It were yours - whatever thing you intended was intended

29. And defiant time obeyed you as if it
Were a slave, responding quickly when you called

30. Your glories surpassed glories and recoiled
From competing with them, my eulogy's journey failed

31. And they flowed like the course of the sun in its orbits
Cutting short its setting and overtaking its rising

32. If the world were adjoined by another like it
It would encompass it and fear it would not suffice

33. So when can someone who claims superiority over this be denied
And Allah bears witness that the claim is true?

34. And when can a speaker fully describe your condition
If he keeps safe the little, the pittance, of what was squandered?

35. If one calls a young man thus
Name the people as birds with one finger

36. If a glorious one only strives for generosity thus
Then rain is more stingy than one who strived

37. Al-‘Abbas left you his mantle my son
A sight for us until the final days and hearing