1. O Abu Aasim, farewell to a brother like you
Who is across the seas since the day you were veiled

2. Your body traveled to the West lifeless
But your heart remained behind your mounts

3. Tears of separation assisted
The tears of your loved ones present

4. The five of estrangement were tough
How severe your estrangement is!

5. You had barely returned when news reached me
Announcing the folding of your book

6. Obituaries, the scent of the grave from your qualities
And the blossoms of gardens from your manners

7. And affection for time, generous
The nights wove its repentance

8. What podium did your vast steps not mount
With the reigns of your speech loose

9. Every day an authority of eloquence
You are the horseman and eloquence your mare

10. And floods of fluency that flow
Between your valley, its streams and gorges

11. You were like time itself in your heyday
So what era are you in your prime?

12. And when pleading dragged its train
And we grew it, it was your robe's excess

13. You were in your erected palace a foundation
You and the benefactors of your peers

14. And if your reward is not for the grave
Then there is no good in your reward

15. Make the foremost in every virtue
The first recipients of your admiration

16. O quick to respond in reconciliation and argument
Dear one, slow is your response

17. I will not forget you, and the guests at the abode
Calling your name, and the needy at your door

18. The good you presented to others
And the best that remained in your wake

19. Rest and relax, every friend
Will approach, his dust to your dust

20. Whenever a year of your afflictions passes
Egypt finds it renewing your afflictions