1. After you there was news and commotion
Had you witnessed it, you would not have spoken much

2. We lost you, so the earth lost its rain
So take care of your people, and be present, do not be absent

3. You were a full moon, a light that gave illumination
Upon you, revelations descended from the Almighty

4. Gabriel would bring us the verses
But he is gone from us, and all that is unseen is veiled

5. So I have lost Abu Sahl, pure of lineage
Of highest pedigree, lineage, and ancestry