1. The day of Eid has come while my heart is filled with sorrow
And suppressed anguish and overwhelming passion

2. I return to dreams to pick their flowers
Only to be horrified by their dreadful withering

3. Waves of buried sadness wash over me
And pierce my heart with stabbing pain

4. A million times life has proven
That I did not know I would one day bow in humility

5. The one whose life, had it continued, would have been my solace
Comforting me when distant from home

6. A true brother whose honesty had no blemish
And deserved no blame

7. His family cried for me when they realized
I had no more tears left to shed

8. They called out to the grave that held his body
And their weeping hearts were torn asunder

9. Had I the power to reach him from afar
I would have rushed to his pure grave

10. Oh the night of that Eid, alas and alas
If sorrows in fear could be of benefit

11. A bereft mother cried, not knowing the taste of bereavement
Can poisoned wine be fully sensed?

12. If only near his grave there was a window
Through which I could come imploring and pleading

13. Iron and stones have trapped his talents
That would have shone like purity itself

14. Though stars may bloom in the dark night
Your spirit shines brighter than those stars

15. I reproached fate the day you left
Some reproach is bitter and hurts

16. Can fate hear my rebuke and show mercy?
To bring back that clarity, can it return?

17. I will spend the day of Eid in sorrowful solitude
Speaking to you, and in speech there is pleasure

18. If that grave contains you, so it embraces
Flowers that all flowers together redeem

19. Then let me add one precious flower I knew
My poetry is the most splendid and radiant of flowers

20. You used to water it and recite its song
So let me hear the melodies of eternity and be satisfied