1. I am the courageous one, yet I grieve as you see,
Since morning, for the death of the son of Courage.

2. His tragedy has led me to confusion,
And thrown me into torment.

3. My tears burn my eyes,
My sorrow consumes my soul like fire in my ribs.

4. I wish this love could console me in my misery -
That the denier not say what he says.

5. And of wonders, being stingy with him,
I buried him and threw him in a pit.

6. It pains me to see him in the dust,
Decaying while my affairs with him were disobeyed.

7. In a high-ground grave - but does it benefit the youth
If life was taken from him in the high-ground?

8. In fertile soft soil - but it does not benefit a man
To be in a grave away from fertility and pasture.

9. Be hard on me for your death taking you,
And deafen your hearing from the talk of the mourner.

10. I wanted to protect you in the tomb, but instead
I made you prey in the hands of destroyers,

11. A voracious hyena who eats, not out of hunger,
Everyone given to her to eat by death, eaters of carrion.

12. Who do I have after losing you, a friend
To whom I can convey my concerns when I want?

13. And who will elongate my enjoyment of wonders
By conversing, and who will shorten my farness?

14. And when the predetermined death comes to the youth,
I cannot save him - my defense is lost.

15. My swords - grief is fettered from him
And my spring for him is like an observed pasture.

16. I am long of arm - so if death extends
A hand toward me, my arm falls short.

17. How life deceives us and we bend
By the guile of crafty deceivers!

18. Where are those who ascended the peaks of loftiness
And settled in the best plains of glory?

19. Those who spent what their tents contained
And gave away what the shepherd drives.

20. It rained your dust, O Hussein, with first rains
Pelting the abodes with a worrying downpour.

21. As if the flashing of its lightning were Indian
Swords unsheathed to strike the darkness.

22. As if the rumbling of its thunder amidst it
Were a cauldron boiling or the roar of beasts.

23. Your Lord's defense of you was better than His
Punishment of an evildoer, better than defense.