1. The path has narrowed for the crying, grieving one,
Neither has the beloved returned, nor has the lover's heart found peace.

2. A flame ignites within his breast to kindle sorrow,
And the more it tries to extinguish, the more it burns.

3. All wounds can be healed by medicine except
The wound of the heart - it has no remedy and it has killed many.

4. Our missing one dies one day and the one who misses him
Tastes death every day continuously.

5. This is an ailment that grieves the one afflicted by it
And sometimes it creates more ailments for him.

6. An affliction from which no one escapes its perils
Except one who has died to this life and moved on.

7. Oh is there a heart that feels no pain?
And a face that has not washed with tears?

8. And which water fuels the flames except
The tears of the grieving one that poured on the ground?

9. I entrust to the coffin's cloth a youth
Straight like a branch and complete like a full moon.

10. We had hoped to pluck fruit from him
But time has disappointed that hope.

11. Time betrayed its covenant of youth with him
And the caller of death came to him hastily.

12. They dressed him in white clothes but they were dyed
With redness from the tears that poured.

13. And people around him walking with bowed
Heads and the screaming of crying women arose.

14. Oh God's mercy, dress over his grave
As you dressed over a coffin that was carried.

15. And greet that radiant face with it
And embrace that straight height.

16. Oh grave! Honor the one who came to you
For he was of those who honor lodging.

17. And take care of the youthful branch in you
Who used to wilt when the breeze blew on him.

18. Patience, O people of Seedah, for patience
Is the best medicine to heal a wounded heart.

19. This path which we inevitably must take
One day and to it we follow the ways.

20. People's lives are days with an appointed time
And death is an era for them that knows no term.