1. Regret passed, and sighs of sorrow
And grief filled the heart with embers

2. And a disobedient destiny drips down
Group after group in throngs

3. How great were those whom the world carried
In glory, and fate walked among them

4. The dust glowed from their treading
And it prohibited and commanded as it wished

5. So when it ends for the last of them
The order is carried out on him, and he crumbles

6. Look at the days in their cycle
With the gaze of the piercing, thoughtful one

7. And present the past and the day before it
And move between the laps of the era

8. You’ll find the days in their multitude
Are sisters, some like the others

9. Merely a single image
Repeated until they appeared like portraits

10. It is the palm of fate, and with it
Fate expands, seizing shreds

11. It hastened without a wise one, and so passed
Hastening without thick veils

12. Death wrapped him on the staircase
And fate cast him into the grip of others

13. Hearts throbbed and spirits shook
Oh, the awfulness of the day, the livers of mankind

14. All who were told “he died” went into seclusion
Wringing the heart with a fist of stone

15. No tear rises for him with a tear
However it flows and however it pours

16. A nation that lost a nation through him
And countries were bereaved of the righteous

17. The poet of eloquence and what accustomed it
To the babble when babble spreads

18. He breathes magic, and from his speech
How often have texts and minds shook

19. We journalists walked behind him
And traced the subjects in his footsteps

20. He was silent like wonders in their context
Its difficulty easy, and its purpose complex

21. As precise as building, smooth as walls
Appearing like the rays of a constant sun

22. On the surface of the Pleiades
The death of the wise is an admonition

23. Not all death makes people take heed
O you standing on the ramshackle spot

24. And hiding between those pits
Where is the voice that death made hoarse

25. And stumbled between your hands
Death dragged him to his demise

26. Bending him double, broken
You were, son of the white folk, a lad

27. Who came to the universe with any company
Resolves beneath which the darkness of night flashed

28. And illumination beneath which sights gleamed
You have the vestiges of the sublime prophets

29. Who filled the world with memories and traces
You were a precursor, but to the elevated

30. You were strong, but in thought
You remain, immortalized in memory

31. Where with death, remembrance does not remain
People raised you in their aspirations

32. And you ascended the throne of modesty and pride
In vain it would be for the vile speaker, evil conduct

33. To try lowering him
Whenever a tremulous hand reached

34. Toward that honor, its fingers shook
The most deserving people of sublime eternity

35. Are those who gifted knowledge in youth and old age
They were sincere in effort for it and exhausted

36. All that was in their power of the strained
Rise, O wise one, and look how the breaths of sorrow

37. Yearn and miss a breast and bosom
Ideas expand in killing whenever

38. One of them wanders and crosses the mind
This is the moral of a sincere friend

39. In affection and betrayal of trust
My heart is pressed with anguish, so how

40. Can that which stumbles in the gown of captivity avail?
How loyal you are! You do not twist upon

41. The finery of diversion, and refuse to flow
You wear the night, and when the dawn breaks

42. You are blacker than ink
Oh, my wish for you, how wonderful

43. Was an affection that did not last long before it was cut short
What was most terrible is that

44. Today was folded, and yesterday spread
You are in the safekeeping of the Shaper of creation

45. Exalted above madness and conceit
We entrusted you to the earth’s bosom

46. And buried you upon the moon’s surface
Farewell to the sublime, to restraint

47. To the pearls of your lines and couplets
The eternal farewell in

48. The care of God and the protection of the tomb