1. Ask the intense grief, so sad,
About our glory - alas, where is our glory?

2. Where is the beauty of the country, the eye of the wilderness,
The elder of the people of the age in word and meaning?

3. Where is the one whose face delighted people,
He is loftier than the full moons and more radiant?

4. Where is the oath of prayers and fasting in devotion
For whom loins were bent?

5. Where is my sheikh, my role model, my friend
And my beloved, and all I wish for?

6. The strongest of companions in support and loyalty
Solemn yet making people laugh with his teeth.

7. Oh what a calamity and bereavement!
It made the plain and the mountain equal in grief.

8. How could the heart not greatly grieve
When we had affection for him and he for us?

9. Ja’fari in conduct and disposition until
Abs said: Our glory brought us glory.

10. What heart, even if it were rock,
Would not resemble Al-Khansa’ in weeping and grief?

11. His death reminded us of his father
And his brother in the days when they and we were.

12. From the enormity of the affliction, for we lost
One who was a treasure and pillar for the adherents.

13. The heart after him is now in hellfire
While he is a sea serpent in Paradise twisting.

14. Oh my eyes that have not seen our glory,
Please me with a tear that will not vanish.

15. After him, the country darkened and said:
No one remains who will weigh piety and glory.

16. Oh Mahanna, I alone am distressed,
No - all mankind, jinn and humans!

17. So I will weep for you as long as I live, by my right,
My eyelids will not settle after you.

18. How much we assumed about matters, but
We never assumed you would quickly leave us.

19. Oh buried before me, if only this were
By my choice, I would have been buried before you.

20. Would that I had died before this, for I
Carry in you that which saddened and grieved me.

21. My master, you would have preferred this -
That harm is gone and you left the prison,

22. And met the Benevolent, Desired One through
His grace, to attain what you wish.

23. So remember the covenant and celebrate a friend
Who thought well of you - his assumption did not fail.

24. God sanctified the secret of Mahanna's grave -
It is of the most pleasant spots and comforting.

25. And watered the grave of his grandfather, father,
And brother with a downpour that smiled gently.

26. And protected us through their status and sheltered us
With their protection, changing fear into safety.