1. A breath from Arqam has silenced your tongues
Do you know who you are mourning or are you unaware?

2. How could you bear to turn his name around in your mouth
When even the eloquent's mouth is too narrow for it

3. O you who lament the spirit of life for all creation
Hold your tongue, you have no father, so choke it down

4. Curb it from lamenting the noble whose hearts have withered
So they are roused by the pain of a grievous lament

5. They are all together in the same grave in a cemetery
And together above the grave in mourning

6. Leave them be, for they have been satiated by the bitterness of their loss
And turn your lamentation towards the Imams

7. And say peace be upon you, exemplars of piety
Whose features virtue's pardon has effaced

8. Today religion is the religion of Muhammad
Its pillars weakened by the loss of the Decisive

9. You had appointed him as evidence of guidance
A sign pointing to the rightest path

10. But now that the hand of evil has demolished him
People are left in wholesale confusion

11. I protected guidance for them like the rising of stars
That today cannot be clearly made out by the hopeful

12. A pitch black darkness has descended on them
Enshrouding them for the Gathering in a gloomy night

13. O best of fathers, we have lost their blessedness
Your orphans mourn the loss of the gentlest caregiver

14. Wean their mouths, for who else but you
Can nurture them after the Most Generous Sustainer?

15. Speak well, for the Imams did not neglect
Your children, so the needy's assumption would be spoiled

16. Indeed, the Imam al-Murtada busied himself with their affairs
And that is why he was called the First to Give

17. And they saw Muhammad as righteous after him
So he was named Submit (to God)

18. Proceed with righteousness, guidance, piety and virtue
And for the virtuous family and bearer of burdens

19. I swear by your guidance, your devotion, and by Him
Who preferred you with merit, which fully binds me

20. None above the earth's face emulates you
In following the Imams in piety and nobility

21. You are the one the bloom of the high ancestry raises
The feats of glory belong to it and stem from it

22. And one debased by your loftiness, I said when he attained them:
He has reached them, so his foothold has slipped

23. You exhausted yourself though your repute cannot rise higher
Even if you climbed to the heavens with a ladder

24. So greet the days, for your brilliance has declined
And your loftiness has reached its zenith and climax