1. Perfection split open his robe of darkness,
And the water of glory overflowed from his heart.

2. The ranks of glories were certain that they
Bowed down though they had raised him on their poles.

3. The rain clouds' tears poured down after his affliction,
Grieving for him though he was among their enviers.

4. The birds crowded together in their chirping,
Mournfully making evident the grief in their echoes.

5. Since the night's hand took control of his throne,
It shook off on the dawn the dye of mourning.

6. He put off youth though his days were not yet done,
And the raiment of branches refused their freshness.

7. I think he shook generosity with his kindness,
Nobly dividing it among the needy.

8. A full moon eclipsed though long his authority
Shone in the horizon with its darkness.

9. And a flashing sword - I had not thought before
That dust could come to be among its sheaths.

10. Time saluted him and did not cease to fold
His swords' straps, grieving for his children.

11. Death judged him and often it had judged
In his brilliant youth over his peers.

12. Yesterday I would say I recite his praise
And move the tunes about in chanting him.

13. With what word can I lament him
If I do not die, I am muted from repeating it.

14. As for time, its necklace has been severed
- Say, which of its pearls and which of its solitary gems?

15. How many swords thrown to the shoulder of swords -
I fear for him, solace him, and solace his solace.

16. Alas, no obstacle can turn back death
In its rising or ward it off in its attacking.

17. It tightened the slacking of fate from its bond,
And turned the slackening of the tribe from its wont.

18. A journey which all people are tested by,
And he succeeds in it who has piety as provision.

19. Strange is one deluded with an abode of frivolity,
From what conveys him to an abode of guidance.

20. Does he see survival when he has seen what was
Of his departed fathers or forefathers?

21. This is Abu Abdillah immortalized -
If a master is immortalized, it is by his rectitude.

22. A man may die before his death,
And a man may return before his return.

23. Gone is he we would say to the guest,
"A spirit the people's souls from their bodies."

24. How excellent is the beautiful mention, for it
Is a spirit the people's souls from their bodies.

25. Gone is he we would say when one related
News of the virtuous, "Confirm its authority."

26. After him, for questions in questions, who has
Familiarity and knowledge of the degree of intention?

27. Were it not for hope in hope, the radiance
Of its pillar and its support would not have risen up high for law.

28. The mother of glory carried him noble,
The line of leadership innate in him from his birth.

29. The eloquent, his age forgot its sorrows,
Diversion and resolution determined his return.

30. He lied who casts time as the dregs of virtues
While it is of its glories and its beauties.

31. O you who teach us solace through your knowledge,
Take solace and restrain your echoes.

32. And know that Mohammad was not worn away by death
While you spread wide his praise.

33. May God pray on the one who resembled him,
For he is of his elite and of his worshipers.

34. And may a cloud water his burial place with a shower
That smiles at the covenant from the weeping of its time.