1. How much grief and sorrows acquaintances have,
And how many cries, laments and passions!

2. And how many are their weeping in blood
For the lonely pillar of the sons of homelands!

3. Abu Al-Su'ud, who among people attained
Through his excellence, height above Mars and Saturn,

4. And through knowledge and literature reached a rank
That no other in his time attained.

5. He took the lead, and wise sayings submit
To him in the race track of wisdom.

6. Ask the books about him - did they see
Anyone else among us a better human?

7. And say to the prose of Al-Laili when he translated it
And he was only twenty - with perfect translation.

8. Did he use the dictionary of languages
For what appeared of good syntax and benevolence?

9. Or did a brother of excellence and clarity
Precede him in solving the problems of sciences?

10. And say to the students of history of nations
He who conveyed his meanings with dedication is gone.

11. Gone is he who came to you with agreed upon
Benefits that two did not differ about.

12. Of gentle nature, hard to gather, his
Style gave his talks ease for minds.

13. From him you gained, and so did others; he unveiled
To you facts of peoples and countries.

14. Gone is he who built in summarizing most of
Its origins firmly for the structure.

15. I wish he lived until it was complete and erected
For him were the solid walls and pillars!

16. And he showed more clearly in the rest for the noble
The eloquence of Ibn Abi Sulma and Sahbaan.

17. Gone is he who in restarting Egypt had
Sound opinion and did not ignore the sinner.

18. And made reason work in correcting injustices
After listening to what two opponents say.

19. And he was good at recording the minutes in
Every case with ability and competence.

20. Gone is the zealous, intelligent, eloquent one - many
Of the virtuous testified for him, both near and far.

21. Oh what a loss of prose and poetry in a time
That the arrow of evil struck with diminishing!

22. If only the day we lost him in Safar
Was not with a predecessor in every field.

23. With a perfect scholar whose biographies
Came to us in everything with proof.

24. And a composer whose eloquence
Judges over all known for prominence.

25. And a speaker in excellent phrasing in a
Renowned language of French and Italian.

26. And one who performed services to his homeland
With honesty openly and in secret.

27. And who spent the finest of his life in books
That revived every lesson for one who passes away.

28. And winner of praise in good upbringing
Of the valiant Unasi and branch of Dewha the second.

29. And earner of pride that none
Of status in the beloved homeland rivals him in.

30. Where he raised a sword of resolve from his talent
With the determination of an alert saying.

31. And he was the first to show his ruler
In love of Egypt, valor and people.

32. The newspaper "Bik wa Wadi al-Nile" he made as a deposit
From resources that quench a thirsty one's thirst.

33. After it "Rawdat al-Akhbar" appeared
And its sun shone between two cheeks.

34. Had Majid tried to count what his right hand wrote
Adorning times of beauty and grace,

35. Especially in histories, literature
And laws of ruling a sultan,

36. The spears of his pens in a thousand diaries
Would have fallen short of recording the easiest of it.

37. So may God protect his two sons and immerse him
In his grave with the dew of pardon and forgiveness.

38. And be pleased with him and please him and lodge him
In gardens of lovely maidens and boys.

39. This is what Majdi said at the obituary he dated -
May Abu Al-Su'ud have good pleasure and acceptance.