1. You fulfill what is destined of honor
A country that fulfills the right of every leader

2. Al-Basra, so spacious, its breadth narrowed
And it walked with a wounded, afflicted heart

3. It turned sympathetically to the painful memory
Growing in grief there, so painful

4. O Yaseen, you have not tasted an injustice
Deceitfully, and you were not previously the wronged

5. You were not the man who walks proudly
Arrogantly, like the gait of an unjust oppressor

6. Alas, every great conqueror
Is conquered by predetermined fate

7. It is enough pride that you be equaled with it
Secretly, hidden from astrology

8. Cowardice and weakness that you meet openly
The way of lovers in pursuing a flirt

9. This is a position unfit for the likes of it
Speech of fickle opinion, unwise

10. So it is nonsense that one changes his attire
If he was wearing the clothes of opponents

11. Fear of exaggeration .. and it is not one who provokes
His enemy in a time of blame

12. You were distinguished among men, their brilliance
Stands on veneration and glorification

13. And their struggle is the best struggle for a nation
Guided to a path that corrects the straight

14. And politics is the possession of a people whose word
Is decisive for rejection or acceptance

15. I complied with your rule resentfully, I did not wear
A party as armor, nor crawled under the shadow of a leader

16. God forbid that I cheer for other than you calling
Or that I favor anyone above you

17. But an ambition that does not satisfy its people
That politics of patching up persists

18. We saw the crookedness in our conditions
In dire need of correction

19. And we feel that in our exaggeration we have gone too far
And faulty in our reasoning

20. And we see the scattering of our efforts and ranks
Not organized in any way

21. And the promises of those who hold our affairs
Full of sedation and lulling

22. We want more and politicians require us
To be content with our allotted share

23. And we see you as a compelling man whose thought
In dilemmas has decisive maturity

24. And the excuse may be that I am ambitious
And you may be blameless

25. But your position is undisputed
And the extent of your argument is not concealed

26. I complied resentfully with your rule and found myself
Facing a courageous man, gentle in discord

27. Open, welcoming criticism from his opponents
Enlightened at times and understanding

28. Giving them half and knowing that he
Is a man who leads and is not infallible

29. O Yaseen, it is a loss that brilliant mind
Becomes purely self-interested

30. And a tragedy that we seek you but you are not seen
To clear an atmosphere in the country overcast

31. O shield of a sturdy kingdom you wove
And sword of a rule not blurred

32. Iraq, when you were reported indisposed
From what ailed it, disabled and residing

33. We lost, the day we lost you, a planet
That cannot be compensated by other stars

34. God bless you in politics, it is
The soul of intimacy and cure for every sick

35. How many dire times you relieved Iraq
With your known cleverness

36. God reward you, whatever turbulent shaking
In what you arrange and whatever gentle breeze

37. The demeanor of the sincere elevates you
And you may be the example of the grieved

38. You were the vigilant supporter of politics
The pillar of negotiation, whatever its support

39. The measure of a rule which alone was your dream
Good assurance against slippery peaks

40. In what the freedom of your opinion begets
You avoid the whims of barren new opinion

41. How many entangled, complex situations
You clarified, and how many diseases thereby determined

42. You were the illuminator of the path of every blindness
Lost in the country, wandering blindly

43. The firmness of belief, no incident turns you
From all you build with determination

44. And if opinions in the country diverged
Partisan, with no charted course

45. You stated your view among them and they came together
For you, from the position of the obeyed master

46. Whenever the stranglehold tightened and a soul choked
With angry resentment, oppressed

47. And we saw the constitution torn
Naked, with no alleged cover

48. We took shelter in Yaseen, for he was a
Tremendous power against every tyrant

49. And today we fear a balance is lost
In the two scales, with you not residing