1. Neither your features nor virtues could save you,
O Tawfiq, the name in which I sought refuge.

2. But your Lord willed you to attain His nearness quickly,
While your people missed attaining harmony.

3. Could the life of this world be an abode of righteousness,
To prolong the stay of a friend in it?

4. So enter the Gardens of Eternity,
And frolic happily, released from the prison of life as you are free.

5. Today the good deeds you forwarded benefit you,
And through them the reward is guaranteed.

6. As for your brief stay amongst us,
It keeps our remembrance of you alive, and stirs yearning.

7. The dearest thing that remains with one who has departed,
Is a pact, though the tombstone be smooth.

8. Many a cheerful night that your tears graced,
Grieving for you, with burning embers inside.

9. A bride in mourning, a bereft mother,
A grieving sister, and a brother.

10. Your family was distraught over losing you,
Though you were no more than a brother and friend to them.

11. O star that deprived eyes of their light!
Wondrous is your setting while still time to rise!

12. Your faithful family laments sorrowfully,
Shocked by its harshness while you were gentle.

13. Through you the flowing glory of your family increased,
And glory in it is ingrained and time-honored.

14. Its youth are the best of the protectors’ youth,
And all of them, like you, are kept under watch.

15. So may they be entrusted with caring for their land,
For the standard of virtues has been raised in their name.