1. I yearned to defend the right, the sleepless nights,
Had it not been for death, I'd not bear the stillness,

2. Had it not been for death, I'd not cease the struggle,
With it I subdued the oppressors, not yielding,

3. Had it not been for death, I'd not delight some,
Dazing them, not grieving the mournful,

4. Had it not been for death, no fire would vanish
A flourishing place, reaching harvest,

5. Though mourning brings back the dead,
And a bereaved reaches their wish,

6. Yet the East between yesterday and tomorrow
Wears mourning disgracefully!

7. Rise up, O covered star,
And kindle the abode of nobility aflame,

8. Roam in the eternity of nights,
Regaining in the universe a vision,

9. With silence, be more eloquent than your speech,
More intimate in discussion than a confidante,

10. Death is the shortest captivity,
Of one whose ideas and beliefs were confined,

11. Jamal al-Din, O lofty spirit,
Who brought the Message then departed,

12. You endured the deathly tribulations bravely,
None but you endured them seeking deliverance,

13. On the path of the eternal, whoever emulates,
Their ways will be guided and follow suit,

14. With much terror in the remains, skulls covered,
His caves and meadows and settlements,

15. Skulls of the martyred leaders of nobility and truth,
Who delved into his realms venturing!

16. And the ghosts of victims thronging atop,
Crowding over the tyrants, assembling,

17. And atop his palaces lines were etched,
With the ink of the free their scroll,

18. You split his solid rock, fearing no misguidance,
No beasts or night or loneliness,

19. For you carry what none equals in might:
Faith and conscience!

20. Though paths and their treaders differ,
And their goals, nearing and distancing,

21. And builders differ, and how many a builder,
Built from one idea a palace erect,

22. While you gained from lethal poison you savored,
None but you did without perishing!

23. Struggling with the despot, you saw his blindness
Revealed, and his sure steps faltering,

24. When he deemed lawful his deviance, and listened,
To those flattering him increasingly,

25. You feared God knowingly, and truth,
If you fear not people in truth, commands,

26. You found the greatest bliss, and it was,
The elegance of thought and resolve emboldened,

27. And nerves that pull against adversities,
When they rage and overwhelm with burdens,

28. And when you were like the dawn shining,
"And like a doe, too proud to be hunted",

29. You walked with a heart of solid mettle,
"Defiant of those whom you defy",

30. You shouldered the cross, unperturbed by fear,
Nor inclined to luxury, convening,

31. Nor did you concede to a tyrant's whims,
Or what he wished, intending,

32. Nor did I see among men one sustained,
By truth, pride and standing like you,

33. And there were two camps: oppression reigning,
And the oppressed, you did not neutrally stand,

34. You did not argue, the injustice was an army,
And its hordes individual,

35. Nor that nights bring disgrace,
Nor that time is a foe, unforgiving,

36. And that the matter relies on a time,
That nears with no reconsidering,

37. Excuses armored weak souls,
Fearing firm adversity's blows,

38. Seeking glory, falling upon them,
Fruit picked hastily in disdain!

39. Jamal al-Din, you were, and there was an East,
And a Law that sanctioned struggle,

40. And a Heaven under the shadow of swords,
Individuals protected it forcefully,

41. And faith that willingly led people,
To immolation, interpretively endeavoring,

42. And people civilization did not corrupt,
Nor prolong with greed, trespassing,

43. And there was an "unbreakable bond", adorned,
For the united, lovingly bonding,

44. And the intention of leaders was laid bare,
And the face of politics made clear and purging,

45. And rule like the darkness, bare and pure,
So it did not deny when claiming lineage,

46. Nor cast any shadows of colors,
Seeking thereby diminution or increase,

47. It forcibly prevailed and ruled loftily,
Proclaiming it ruled despite the unwilling,

48. And you came, and comrades like stars,
To misguidance, in its endless wilderness, guiding,

49. Repelling its darkness, facing it directly,
And charging it regressively, steadily,

50. Jamal al-Din you were, and there was an era,
You were quenched when you endured firm,

51. It grew and strengthened and its nudity spread,
And the steadfast increasingly endured,

52. Fifty spineless years passed after you,
Ravines, not streams, assisting them,

53. Loaded and driven by immorality,
And resilient like an unassailable fortress,

54. Politics shifted from its scope,
To the furthest extent, meagerly preparing,

55. And the East spent its night secure,
Between two rules, differing in significance,

56. The essence of both being tyranny prevails,
And annihilation, he is free,

57. By whichever hand he prefers to perish!
And a finger extended to his kin therein,

58. Causing corruption beyond what they corrupted!
How many wounds in the East of a nation,

59. Complaining, not of wounds, but of bandages!
Complaining of the despicable, hateful injustice,

60. That refused obediently to be led,
So the scheme was to mount it,

61. An infant whose milk teeth still bite and amplify,
Echoing the foreigner, and how many barrens,

62. Returned an echo, thus he was gratified,
So the foreigner handed it to a compatriot,

63. Who subjugated it as he wished, persecuting,
And the foreigner, having assumed,

64. The reins of command and usurped the homelands,
Saw the slightest rights upon him,

65. Tolerating criticism and censure,
So they reckoned criticism an opening,

66. If only they could silence the critics!
Evil is the fate of fettered, disgraced slaves,

67. If only their hands were not bound by shackles!
And evil is the fate of those lying on embers,

68. Wishing they lay on cushions!
They were like plants, relocated,

69. When rain irrigated, locusts swarmed!
What miserable destiny for the enchained humiliated,

70. If only his hands were not restrained by shackles!
And how wretched is the fate of those lying on embers,

71. Wishing to lie on cushions instead!
They were like plants transplanted,

72. When the rain irrigated, locusts swarmed!
And when the foreigner took over,

73. The reins of power and usurped the homelands,
He saw the slightest rights upon him