1. Today I ascend a pulpit by your grave
And adorn the elegy of you with gems

2. And I recount from my poetry a book of virtues
Leading scholars have it inscribed

3. Mentioning your merit in Egypt and its people
Merit is inviolable so it must be mentioned

4. Knowledge alone does not raise ranks
Often deeds advance men and humiliate others

5. And knowledge is most like the sky, its men
Are mixed with clouds, rain-bearing and prolific

6. We circumambulated your grave and received a pillar
As if the Holy House, pure and sanctified

7. Between reverence and humility as though
We greet the glorious sanctuary illuminated

8. If they equated you with shrouds and panels
They would have fortified you with wise mention

9. O you whom time showed me sincere affection
While affection in the world is often contrived

10. And I heard the narration of your noble manners
So it showed me your noble manners captured

11. What did you meet of long rest
While I meet in you agony and regret

12. You slept unafraid in a home
While time in it is shorter than a wink

13. You never ceased praising wakefulness and criticizing sleep
Until you met the most abundant sleep

14. Do not complain of its vermin
The creatures of mankind are uglier sights

15. O chief of the club bearing its concerns
You left it honored beneath presidency

16. Your enemies testify how you stayed up for its glory
And rose seeking more, resolved

17. And how you were cautious of plots and repelled them
And cast off the aggression of suspicious minds

18. And you remained, banning from the basin of youth
Until God recompensed you with abundance

19. The youth of Egypt are humble at your grave
Possessing nothing but their flowing tears

20. Grief has gathered them into one
The passionate youth, lamenting

21. Were it not for you they would not have known cooperation
In what gladdens or what ever marred

22. Wherever you glanced you saw around you from them
Traces of benevolence and fertile plantation

23. How much eloquence and wisdom you had in the country
While intellect amongst them is sold and bought

24. You walk to the shacks to guide their people
Like the disciples guiding the villages

25. Humble before God among His servants
And God despises His arrogant servant

26. Your soul never knew arrogance though often
Arrogance diminishes even the great

27. In every direction you sketch an association
In it is the life of farming O brother if you but knew

28. It is your chemistry not the myths of Geber
Leaving the group with little, multiplying

29. And money bears no fruit unless
It meets with managing heads

30. And wealth makes a kingdom's position firmer
Its authority more precious and its image truer

31. We are in times whose people's frivolity
In their kingdom is like man inside his house of ants

32. I ask who of the people of principles called
For commitment or gathered estranged hearts

33. Death before you in the wilderness blew
Neither Moses the Trusted nor Jesus the Good

34. When I was called I came to shed my tears
If I could, I would shed my eyelids into the soil

35. I weep for your right hand in the dust, clouded
My chest an ocean and my heart a grove

36. I was not stoic about you though I
Consoled about the well-regarded prince

37. I appraise men and I have a shepherd who long
Shed praise on the generous gilded

38. Yesterday I sent the elegy gripped
Today I shout praise from the pulpit

39. You changed me in sorrow and decay changed you
Though my passion refuses change within me

40. So keeping my vow is upon me until we meet
And upon you to observe it until we are gathered