1. The doves cooed in the lofty branches
Of that honorable, pure tree,

2. With its sweet-smelling shade and abundant fruit,
And its hills perfumed with meadowsweet.

3. It was the speech of allegiance to the rightly-guided Imam,
A speech that struck at the heart of the matter precisely.

4. Have you not seen how on that gloomy day
The news struck like a thunderbolt?

5. O day whose cover you removed, bringing pitch darkness
In place of the shining lights of the brilliant dawn,

6. The lights of the blessed Meem of the victorious Al-Naqeeb,
The steadfast, supremely virtuous one.

7. His homeland knew his loyalty,
And Al-Farooq looked after him caringly.

8. The pious philosopher of the world, who attained certainty,
Supported by truths, was not tempted

9. By the world's enticements of positions and comforts.
So he sought the most elevated station in his religion,

10. Coming closest in contemplating the Creator.
Religion and worldly life provide ample scope

11. For the resourceful, straightforward, and truthful man.
Is there any eloquence in a writer's prose

12. To match his sweet, pure, delightful rhetoric?
Are there any treasures for the mind like his compositions

13. And commentaries on every fascinating topic?
What caused the early lovers to censure him

14. As they roamed between East and West?
Glory to He who granted him the natural disposition of His creation

15. And completed it with fine traits and ethics.
How excellent a loyal friend he was to his family and companions,

16. Responding to every petitioner's knock!
Gentle and sparing of speech - if you ask something of him

17. You will hear the answers of the Speaking, Active One.
Resolute in events, accompanied by determination,

18. Which cannot be hampered from its purpose by any barrier.
So when contentions grow severe, his heart does not shrink

19. From engaging intensely in the pressing situation.
Making up what can be made up,

20. With the subtlest ways to beauty.
In God's custody, having parted,

21. He is immortalized in memory, never absent.
His nation mourns him, and your departed one,

22. O Family of Abdurrazaaq, was its departed one.
He was an intermediary who shone radiantly between you

23. In every splendid, well-proportioned era.
So his loss is the ransom for the remainder,

24. The scattered pearls from a compatible source.
How many a steadfast, high-minded Ali,

25. If the name of the foremost is counted among the two?
How many a perceptive, resolute Ismail in his own field

26. Glides effortlessly, with none to overtake him?
Two treasures whom we hope God will protect,

27. For they are solace for every stricken heart.