1. Let the days astonish and the nights
Whose passing bliss lasts till fading

2. The brief life of their people until death
And the ultimate end of their dwellers is to move on

3. My acquaintances have turned unfamiliar before my eyes
And my discernment has fallen into a miserable state

4. And I gained nothing for my generosity and benevolence
Except confirmation of my illness and suffering

5. And my ailment cannot be cured by medicine
And my wound does not end up healing

6. For losing bliss I have lost sleep
So alas for the specter of imagination

7. In it were days that were but short
So woe to me from its long nights

8. And it was my treasure therein and my wealth
And was my guidance at misguidance

9. Indeed I learned the lessons of knowledge sorrowfully
And the answer to the question went astray

10. And the people knocked on the doors of religious decrees
And they reached the threshold of begging

11. Knowledge wept to the point that grammar
Became after you disputed

12. And rhetoric came to be without eloquence
And its highest meanings descended

13. Its white papers wept blood
And its contents grief like antimony

14. And the eye of its pen faded and turned
Right not curable with kohl

15. So strange for a jewel that cried from
Tears in the late nights

16. And our misery became great, so it woke
For it lifetimes and the wings of nights rested

17. So the disposed ones continued to receive
From fate all kinds of reprisal

18. And how many noble souls death took
And destinies harvested without war

19. So oh grave wherein bliss settles
For you have harvested the beauty and the handsome

20. And you have veiled a face that was more beloved
To the thirsty than fresh flowing water

21. May God protect a branch that reminded me
Of his features like the breezes of the north

22. And give life to a home wherein we gathered
And my mind was safe from its plight

23. May God quench him with a pouring drink
And bestow what was upon him of shade

24. And lodge him in a corner of Paradise
And raise him to the highest chambers