1. O my heart, woe to you, and love is an obligation
What have you done with the covenant of Abdullah

2. You pulled me to your side on the eve of his death
And throbbed with the throbbing of anguish, oh how pained

3. If a heart melted for its beloved
This weak, crumbling chamber would have collapsed for you

4. So it is incumbent upon you, from excellent chivalry I command
And it is incumbent upon you, from excellent composure I deter

5. The birds alighted in the dust, dwelling places
Virtues swoop down towards them, with lips

6. Its expanses saturated with tears
Trodden by partings and brows

7. If not for the grip of death over his grip
It would have overflowed with fruits and water

8. O you who endured with the enduring, and remained pure
From the family of purity, cognizant of God

9. And the authority of justice knew his station
Amongst the eminent, most righteous jurists

10. And you were wise, your intellect impervious
To the lies of fortune and trickeries of fame

11. And a brother who quenched the thirst of brethren
With affection, neither harsh nor aloof

12. My poetry was once your soul’s preoccupation, so suggest
From every impending doom, through mouths

13. You were brought down from it when you missed gathering it
To a delightful abode, illuminated by your light

14. So recite it over Hasan, perhaps through his distinction
In praising the Messenger, he will excel

15. And descend with the light of eternity to your grandfather, and join
The angels from his kin, who resemble him

16. Your elegist, the elegist of Hatem or Ja'far
While people are between occurrences and remedies