1. How can one ward off adversities
From people, past and future?

2. Rifa'a, scholar of the world and its sole one,
And the best from whom hope was expected for adversities,

3. Whose abundant sea flows in valleys
Wherein is lasting benefit for people,

4. And whose land has arts that have no equal
In spreading its contents among registries,

5. And whose mountains are in sciences unmatched,
Which none of us can compete with in its arenas,

6. May God not make his gatherings lonely after their conviviality,
Their lamps having been lit by Him,

7. Nor may a day of misery come wherein
The joys of its times were blotted out after establishment,

8. Nor may fickleness cast him down hastily
With arrows and spears of fate,

9. Nor did metrics lament him in poems
Which made the eyes of the virtuous seasons weep,

10. For he was an ink that acknowledged inability
To praise the Lord of eloquence,

11. And his assembly was, at all times,
Joyous with tranquility,

12. He would pardon the offender even if numerous
Types of wrongdoing against him increased,

13. And he would rejoice in well-being and it would overwhelm him
With unasked for showers of blessings,

14. When his star set, his biographies wept for parting with him,
Adorned with excellent diction,

15. And on the day of his death, grief permeated the land,
Ascending from it to the heavens,

16. And his soul was met by the houris when it parted
From his body with pure greetings,

17. And he spent the night of ascension joyfully,
With a delighted heart, luxuriating in pleasures,

18. And when he was interred in the tomb, he appeared
As if in gardens of brocade,

19. And around him were the People of the House, his ancestry,
In circles that attained perfection,

20. And he recited over them, while between them,
Crowned with dignity, some verses,

21. And said: would that my people knew what
I was given of exalted worth and bounty!

22. Therein our souls found rest in that which we heard
From the descendants of the Masters,

23. And in the coming springtime, my glory will be dated
By Rifa'a whose state is that of the gardens.