1. My sorrows are not lightened, though long concealed,
Nor is my mind ever free from thoughts of you.

2. My eyes know no rest in slumber,
For sorrow and eternity abide there.

3. My companions stay up through the night, but find not
The solace that I find.

4. My eyes kept them awake -
If my tears were to flow, they would slumber.

5. When they said, "Your strength has waned,"
I said, "My tears for him will flow forever."

6. My tears for him are an ocean of blood,
That refuses to dry up for eternity.

7. I weep while anguish remains
In my heart and bowels as before.

8. Whenever I try to forget sorrow,
Time reopens the wound - such is its nature.

9. Today grief bared its claws,
So let sorrow's lion roar.

10. Drowned in tears, in exile -
He has neither money nor child.

11. The nomads came to a land
Whose garment was worn by time.

12. Flash, O lightning of clouds, for it
Has what my eyelids lack.

13. Abdul Ghani had riches
Until envy took notice.

14. Eyes tempted me toward him
And arms grew strong against him.

15. The common folk left me;
No rebel has power over them.

16. One who wards off not death
From himself - Time's claws prevail over him.

17. After annihilation protects us,
We are for annihilation - we last not.

18. A builder whose pigeons
Nested in a structure he designed.

19. Alas! He who loved me, and he
Whom my people loved in return.

20. They likened him to war - what a war!
They slept not, though they had ignited.

21. They found him, and luck helped him,
Then it betrayed them, and they lost him.

22. A pearl adorned with splendor -
A connoisseur of pearls appraising.

23. He filled the eye of Time with rays
And purity - prisons were his fate.

24. Had my son's life lasted longer
None would have surpassed his limit.

25. As a child, had he fought hundreds,
Their number would not have wearied him.

26. He soared to the heights and attained them
On wings of integrity when mature.

27. He built glorious, righteous works -
Pillars were his deeds.

28. O falcon of death, you descended on
My heels, undoing the knots.

29. You snatched the son of Labaah, though
Neither talons nor forelegs protected him.

30. My star faded - now here am I
With no ray to guide me, no pillar for aid.

31. A man's son is his liver - if
He falls, the man is left with no liver.

32. One tires of all loved ones
Except what a man sires or bears.

33. Sons are but the number
Of fathers and counts.

34. If a youth is a successor,
The jewels of his ancestors are renewed.

35. Does the soul that grieves for you
Return, O perished companion - when?

36. Be tomorrow the light of the wretched,
When the lights of the lofty are successful.

37. There is a tradition of the Prophet
Foretelling what he promises.

38. Perhaps the Chosen One will remember him -
Visiting the bereaved when he comes.

39. I have no means to live, now that
Death's hand has ruled over you.

40. Let one who cries for loved ones when distant
Die of love when they are distant.

41. Since news of your death reached me
Deafness persists until the Eternal guides.