1. The greatest agony is spilled tears,
Or sighs that rend ribs,

2. And sorrow that rends garments,
And cheeks scratched by palms.

3. This is the tremendous misfortune, for if
It were but a nightmare, it would be atrocious.

4. It is a calamity that has befallen all people, so no
Individual or group is exempt.

5. A loss that struck like a lion stalking its prey
Among the learned of both worlds, vicious.

6. The heavens nearly folded over it,
The earth quaked, and mountains flowed.

7. It ripped open the hearts of the people of earth,
And the hearts of the angels of heaven had fissures.

8. He who concealed sciences, thus
Were sciences buried, and in this was his funeral.

9. Or he who bid farewell to guidance
And honors, and thus was his farewell.

10. The honored is not made honorable by fate,
Nor the protected made immune by hands.

11. Fate seized the noble one from his eminence,
And his tomb meets examples of lowliness.

12. Fate snatched the brilliant stars from the summits of glory,
And took them to the chamber of darkness.

13. O you who desire this life, do
You not have enough of its great sorrows?

14. You are heedless and playing, while fate is inescapable.
You hope for respite from it, yet it is quick.

15. That which it swept away and gathered,
And the Collector is most severe to you in your gathering.

16. You mended the world, and one who is worn out by it -
It is an old serpent, and he is smooth.

17. Woe to one worn out by the world.
Religion is desecrated, desecration of the mended.

18. Its pure bliss is made bitter by fate.
Bliss with death is polluted.

19. No anguish like death, except what comes after it -
The poison of life and putrid survival.

20. So prepare for your resting place with piety, every person -
What his hands have gained, that is his mattress.

21. Know that you will die, O dead one,
And know that you are destined for tribulation.

22. Death did not hurt the God-fearing when it struck them,
But missing the God-fearing is painful.

23. I saw the free man has no permanence,
But his elevated remembrance remains.

24. Alas for the loss of one who treated me
With care, sighing, and burning passion.

25. He who left behind morals that linger for us
Like musk diffusing fragrance in dew.

26. It is as if he is a secret contained in life
That spreads in death and in life.

27. Alas for him whose light of guidance
Guided all people to righteousness altogether.

28. It is as if he is a fire on a banner that appeared
At night, and all the lands took heed.

29. Alas for him who fasted slaying desires,
Reviving the night while sleepy.

30. It is as if he is a spring appearing at dawn,
And as if his night of passion is poured forth at dawn.

31. He connected fasting to standing as if
Passionately in love, anxious for the coming tomorrow.

32. Alas for him who had a life by which
All pillars were established with foundations.

33. It is as if he was given prophethood and success -
He is obeyed and his word is heard.

34. Alas for him whose attire was chastity,
And coats of armor doubled over him.

35. It is as if he is one who from fear and weeping
Is bedridden above the mattress.

36. Alas for him the angels were always
Frequenting his house, welcomed in it.

37. It is as if it is the sacred house, sanctified,
And they are birds roosting over it.

38. Alas for him whose judgement satisfied leadership
Like sheep led to sale.

39. It is as if he is an entrusted judge
And a subservient subject.

40. Alas for him steadfast in his forbearance
When blamed, upright and stable.

41. It is as if the disputants meet his eyes
Like a sword dragging across mellow cheeks.

42. Alas for him who in every neighborhood is eloquent
Or is silent yet acts graciously.

43. It is as if he is among them and they are in his custody -
An orphan's sheikh in his hands as a suckling infant.

44. Alas for him whose palm-fulls
Were generous even to the criminal and sinful.

45. It is as if in his palms are ten clouds
From each flows a spring.

46. Alas for him whose homes the guests in summer
Frequented, seasons passing with him.

47. It is as if they are the palms of his hands -
A meadow he tended that will not graze the sick.

48. Today he became lifeless beneath the soil,
Forbidden what he intended of erected temples.

49. I studied his lands in settlements, which
Were settled with them for the dissenters.

50. Who can replace you after your burial place,
O righteous one bearing calamity?

51. If I call you, O Son of El Hessan Al Radi,
Are you the responder? For supplication you are Hearer.

52. You left me the consolation of calamities - whenever
The elegists compose, I am anguished.

53. From you is what is in me, and what is in you in the grave, so perhaps
You are the comforter while I am pulled.

54. It is as if I am resurrected from the sorrow
You inherited me from its mother emptied.

55. I cry over you, and I have right to prolonged crying -
My tears are depleted, so I lament fervently.

56. I cry over you, and all who tread the soil
Cry over you, and do not fret over you.

57. I cry over you, though my agony over you
May magnify the crying, sorrow and anguish.

58. I cry over you, and the high company has cried before me,
And groups, multitudes, and crowds.

59. If only your washers knew my agony -
They would have left you for me, tears instead of water.

60. Rather, would that your grave were in my eye and in
My intestines, and the hollowed plank my ribs.

61. My soul is your ransom - I say you were but I did not know
My soul that you were afflicted before it.

62. After your burial place, I am in anguish -
No delight in eyes after you, no burning passions.

63. After you left me, I am in desolation
And alienated from people and tribes.

64. O exemplar of the righteous, El Hessan Ar Radi,
You are the intercessor and the Prophet is your intercessor.

65. This cloud cries over you in sadness -
Thunder in it has rumblings and howling.

66. The heavenly delights received your spirit,
And the tenderness of God covered you.

67. So blessed are your footsteps, for they are blessed -
The afterglow of splendor rising after sunset.

68. The righteous brothers and uncles - they are
The excellent successors, their path followed.

69. They were wholesome roots, and righteousness indicates them,
And roots, however wholesome, have branching leaves.

70. Their pulpits were raised - they rose with them.
The elevated, even if disgraced, is elevated.

71. The Ibadi faith through them became whiter,
And knowledge from them was enriched by study.

72. You have lived, O Bani Abdus Salam, in a state
With the enemies' noses ground in it.

73. And unto you is patience in your trials -
Restraint when given is satisfying.

74. Death is a bridge upon the back of hope -
It was built, and all people cross it.