1. The East collapsed when you were gone, O you who perfected the Arabs
After you, who can console the Arabs?

2. Time will erase all calamities
Except missing you, which time and eras cannot efface

3. We hoped you would humble the arrogant
But who now will stand up to adversities if they arise?

4. You tackled events with truthful deeds
While people can only make claims and speeches

5. The loss of you made misfortunes feel trivial
And after it our hearts grew tough

6. Alas! The teardrops hoard the deep wells
Seeking you after you were gone, they overflowed

7. Had you lived in Hatim Al-Tai's time
He would not have earned the reputation he got for generosity

8. Your munificence is witnessed by the eye but its beholder
Alas! We cannot know his truthfulness or lies

9. You naturally inclined toward the most sublime morals
To the earnest and the loftiest things though difficult

10. By God, you hastened like a drawn sword to generosity
Like a torrential flood if it rushed forth

11. O people of the land of grace and lofty glory
Is there anyone among you who knows of Kamil and can inform us?

12. For we have received the news that Kamil passed away
If hard times befall you, O people of brilliant minds

13. And the successor tarries like rain clouds
Many groups of you were his dependents

14. And whoever was an orphan among them found a father in him
All parts of your land were astonished by Kamil

15. Bewildered by the world, and no wonder!
They said the chief of the Christians, but I said to them:

16. “Nay! He is the pillar of every honorable Arab”
If the outskirts of your land render Kamil his due

17. With weeping, even rocks would crack and hills slide
I yearn for the perfect Kamil, how he lies

18. In the darkness of the tomb, shrouded
I yearn for the full moon, for its rising is gone

19. I yearn for the tumultuous sea, for its water has run dry
I yearn for the noble master, denied by groups

20. That for so long relied on him in hard times
I yearn for the sublime paragon that when gone

21. The world lost the finest role model for the gifted
For one whom, if you accompanied all your life

22. You would find none but loyalty, honesty and grace
On his face you read verses of his virtues

23. And say: Glory to He who destined this
A brother who supports me in adversities

24. I cherish no one among my kin more than him
Each day I see in him a trusted brother

25. While in others I see enviers and schemers
How much I hoped to enjoy his company one day

26. And quench with his vision the fires of longing
How much I remembered him in my estrangement

27. hoping a morning breeze would blow his smile to me
Until the unexpected news reached me

28. And with it made kindling of the saplings of my hopes
And a bundle of calamities when I saw them

29. Made my wishes vain and life nonsense
Who can help me hold back the falling teardrops

30. On my cheek, and the sleep that has fled?
Wait, O noble house of glories, your misfortune

31. Has brought misfortune to the beloved homeland
All purebred Arabs weep for him

32. Those settled in towns and nomads in the desert
Had we gathered elegies from all continents

33. We could not fulfill the rightful dues for him
But death is inevitable, it cannot be resisted with

34. Sorrow, nor can tears cease flowing for it
I thought I would console you with my sermon

35. But who will console me for the one who left?
We are only passengers who rode in a caravan

36. And we will all drink the cup he drank
O Lord, shower his tomb with any passerby

37. So places around it flourish and thrive
I gifted him the vine of sublime traits

38. So bestow generosity upon him, our Lord