1. O Death, what company and dignity
Did you destroy after Sa'id?

2. Manners like gardens in beauty and charm,
Its fruits being near for the benefit of the needy.

3. It seemed to me his knowledge was an ocean,
Deep and vast, covered with sweet roses.

4. And the souls of the congregation disdained
To be bound in shackles other than his.

5. Abundant in his beneficial knowledge,
And near in his retention and far in his intimacy,

6. And strange in his company and wondrous,
Refined in his manners and collected.

7. He gathered excellence in narration and poetry
To al-Asma'i, nature of al-Walid.

8. A righteous ancestor, remainder of a people
Whose covenant Allah blessed in contracts.

9. They knew good, honored its doers.
They were ignorant of villainy, ignoring transgressions.

10. And when they disrobed for enmity,
They stopped at enmity within limits.

11. Would that my people would adorn themselves with the noble manners
Of this man in intense conflict.

12. How great is our need for the loftiness of manners
In these dark nights!

13. What is with you tearing each other apart?
Have you finished with the hostile enemy?

14. Go lengths and breadths in the countries
And see what your opponent has of exertions.

15. And touch with your hands a firm edifice
Whose pillars he erected with firm resolution,

16. Erecting it above your glory, building it
Towering over the skulls of ancestors.

17. He gained all this amidst chaos,
Disunity, humiliation, and submission,

18. And preoccupation with nonsense and love of others
Away from the beneficial, universal, magnificent.

19. Allah bears witness that that life
Is preferred over the life of slaves.

20. Death has become a blessing; the dead
Are envied pillowed in the dust.

21. Happy is he who attains the like of Sa'id
After the abode of annihilation, the abode of eternity.

22. So congratulations to you for lasting bliss,
You in which are the companion of the Almighty, All-Praiseworthy.