1. Farewells, and you are the last companion remaining
Of friends who were the most righteous of companions.

2. You turned away from a side of a living heart -
Take a share of my overflowing tears.

3. How many loved ones I weep for! But do I have any concern
Other than blackening these papers?

4. Whoever the goodbyes have given a cup of sorrow to drink
The goodbyes have given me a cup of anguish to drink.

5. Hailab who bore you while proud
Of her famous son among horizons.

6. The secretive one who attained glory
That he aspires to deserve.

7. The pure-branched one whom
The intelligent roots and lineages have nurtured.

8. The one of pure conscience in every situation
And highest morals and ethics.

9. Eloquence felt anguished despite itself
And is in desolation and distress.

10. It wished for you to remain forever
If it could be protected from death.

11. O you master whom
Its essence and preciseness did not escape.

12. O you gentle critic, but without
What he has of compassion.

13. O you prose writer whose eloquence
Is not boasted for clarity and illumination.

14. And thoughts turn in it, and do not miss
Any delicate meaning of meanings.

15. O you scarce poet - had you written more
None would surpass you in the race.

16. From your flipping facts, was there ever
An illusion you shaped out of fantasies?

17. You have spent a treasure, but a treasure
That is endless in expenditure.

18. Not a generosity out of amplitude in protection
Of knowledge and experience like generosity out of stinginess.

19. How can the language of Dhad forget its harvest
From the vats of your creative mind?

20. Fruits from every art in an adornment
Of every delightful color.