1. I saw time turn against me
With contagious disease it concealed its malice

2. Until it suddenly pounced
Spreading its malice

3. The birds on its branches grew frail
With claws that startle the gentle and peaceful

4. Mecca eulogized you, and the Mosque
And Zamzam, the stations, and the throngs

5. The eulogizer lamented your beautiful neck
Now disabled, and the precious necklace

6. The eulogizer lamented your tapered waist
Belittled when the jasmine bends

7. The eulogizer lamented cheeks or full moons
Whose blooms are severed by the hand of affliction

8. How harsh were our souls toward him
When he was gentle and most tender to me

9. Whenever I moaned his memory
My hearing grew deaf to any melody

10. He intended harm and swore if he delayed
I would join him and halt the harm

11. Yearning lodges in my throat
Her young sobbing and moaning

12. The one who parted us drove her roughly
Nearly tearing her from my core

13. She flew stretching her neck, so one
Who holds the nose rope firmly

14. Eyes could not look at her until
They thought her neck columns supported her

15. When she nestled beside the desert, a heap
Her smoothness restored the desolate hills

16. The journey nearly marked her with letters
Chanted, and we would read verses in her

17. Ships though her hands sailed
A sea they thought her a boat

18. From the feared town she carried a rider
Toward the safe town she headed

19. Bearing the holy place clothed in white garb
Not on pilgrimage, in religious dress

20. They roamed where the skilled never prodded them
Toward beds, intending to rest

21. A guide lights their path
When lost he illuminates so they are guided

22. Bearing sanctity on their necks, angels
Covering them, carrying

23. His coffin sailed, signs
Guiding us clearly

24. They buried verses and hidden mysteries
Safeguarded with him in the soil

25.
And laid down a pillar and sword

26. That rises and bows
O how you took his tongue from me

27. And O grief, you made me despair
We missed the right path, but by the Guide

28. We missed our purpose
O pillar, you strengthened a pillar in me

29. O fortress, with him you destroyed fortresses
I lost you, one tribe, as if

30. I lost all people
I remembered you though mourning deafened me

31. No longer heeding a companion's melody
I remembered you, the land intends

32. Harm at night as I intend harm
Looking between my breast and heart

33. Hidden, unbearable to me
Give me a glance quickly or else

34. My eye is expectant, eyelid lowered
Restore your face to my eye unveiled

35. Let me kiss the space between your eyes
No son, though daughters excuse me, how

36. When your pact with me will not be clear
I snatched you from me, a precious hostage

37. Though against my will, you were dear to me
I never thought I was so ungenerous

38. But fate disappointed assumptions
A youth pure of lineage

39. Though Adam was not water and clay
Brother of short lineage, but long in glory

40. Thus he combined the two pedigrees
He shone a pedigree whose sides

41. Poured like freely flowing springs
When forbearance's pebbles overflowed from him

42. He rang the ignorant and the dim of sight
He returned the hidden linings of sleeves

43. Folded, hidden garments
He flowed like the winds in generosity

44. Vanquishing the sheathed swords
A people swore by his generocity

45. Habituated to lavish bestowal
Those who catch knowledge fish for him

46. Trained in the tools of science
If counted, each an army

47. Though counted, seeming two hundred
If they slaughtered villages in a day

48. They left the eyelids of swords bare
How many prisoners did they free at Badr

49. After shackles had locked wrists
Most honored of all people, a tribe

50. All tribes together call them eminent
When the small spoke for them

51. The great remained humble
Whatever I forget, I won't forget a cousin

52. Who reminds me of kinship if I forget
If our souls grew turbulent, we returned

53. To kin, asking them for calm
We supported each other, inclining

54. Together toward beautiful reconciliation
He journeyed, taking his worldly goods alive

55. And dead, his faith held the reins
No shame if an eye glanced

56. And won the eyes' virginity
So do not grieve, father of Al-Mahdi, consider

57. Nations who passed, ages past
You performed Hajj, he alighted at the Mount

58. How can the wind shake a sturdy mount?
Does fate divert but a torrent

59. To claim our souls its debts
The Zawra’ gave her visitor a cloud

60. Forgiveness pouring gentleness