1. Speeches that time surrounded with its vastness
Harsh in descending upon me, without mercy

2. As if the cycles of time surrounded me
Lying in wait for me at every path

3. Is there a refuge from the tyranny of its injustice?
Or am I a captive of its currents, unbound?

4. How long will its misfortunes keep befalling me
And its sorrows choke me with saliva?

5. It took away all who were sympathetic and accompanying
And suitable, and accompanying, and friends

6. And witty, and habitual, and wise,
They fortified time and clung to it strongly

7. Even a rooster I was used to being near
Sweet in nature among the melodious roosters

8. Time cast at him a fatal disease
That destroys people and splits every group

9. And it threw at him the arrow of a skilled archer
To the provisions of the victorious, tenaciously held

10. My sorrow for him is constant whenever
The leaves of the doves coo at dawn in a delicate voice

11. A pet of our house and the joy of our hearts
And nourished our hands with a yearning call

12. My craving for you, oh Abu Nadheer, if only
He had warded off death from you, a delayed craving

13. And for your features that did not sleep
Until they wasted away after perfect beauty

14. You would have benefited and become a treasured possession
And been raised to be hoped for

15. And all aspects of speech would have been perfected in you
And your weaver would have woven you every affection

16. You would have had from a friend, true and loyal
And you would have become a repository in which fingers wrote

17. Excellent compositions by a delicate hand
Like carnelians or the clarity of agates

18. Or the gleam of fire or the flash of lightning
Or coffee prancing in a crystal with the coquetry of sipping and applause

19. As if the clouds rained you in a mold
Or you emerged dyed with innate nature

20. And wore like a peacock shining feathers
Glittering, of splendid and brilliant colors

21. Of red mixed with yellow in blue
Whose adornment hides the truth

22. A presentation that transcends analogies and an essence
Whose meanings are refined upon examination

23. And your precedents examined a questioner
And were for the departing from you a crown of carnelian

24. And it was as if the course of sound from you when polished
And sprouted from the ears the din of throats

25. Was a delicate, gentle reed flute
That gathered together melodies of music

26. Flapping and clapping with wings as one who soars
Whose hands reached the tapping of applause

27. And strutting, mounted on seven layers
Like the skilled, staring with composure

28. Providing us with eggs constantly
A blessed, uncrushed sustenance

29. In them marvels of craftsmanship and subtleties
Composed with cultivation and harmony

30. For their whiteness is paper and their yolk is silk
In the interior of ivory lined with brocade

31. Two aqueous compounds not mixed over
A torrent, and a delicate blended mixture

32. Served over it stews and
Taken in roast and boiled

33. Yes, by your life, if prosperity endured
Would sustenance remain for any sustained?

34. I cry when I look upon your abandoned dwellings
With tenderness, lament, and moans

35. And a neighboring rooster in a close, lowly abode
Increases my agony at losing you

36. So my sorrow for you is ceaseless,
In the blackness of night and lightning flashing

37. And when those afflicted find some consolation
In sorrow, I remain sleepless

38. Patience for losing you, no few, but like
The captive's patience for severity and confinement

39. Do not distance yourself, even if intention takes you
To a remote, far-off place of pilgrimage

40. And pouring rain in sheets waters
Your bones near al-Muzn, thunderously roaring in your tomb