1. Praise be to God for the loss of one with high status
Who was unmatched in such status

2. No man has fulfilled the dress of advocacy
As was its rightful due

3. With resolute determination, brilliant intelligence
And concordance of intent and words

4. One who said encyclopedias of religious law were gathered
In the being of a chest that was no exaggerator

5. The more extensive his acquisition
The more he toiled night and day

6. And he remained seeking illumination for his mind
With the guidance of shining suns or the light of lamps

7. He refused affectation whether writing or speaking
And loved, in composition, nothing but the present style

8. He avoided ornaments in his words
Fearing obscurity and boredom

9. Or fearing ambiguity would shroud the evidence
With embellishment that makes it gleam

10. Adversity tested him, but his resolve
Was firmly rooted like mountain peaks

11. Tribulation pleased him, so there was no opponent
To rival him the next morning in debate

12. His prey was not to tear ferociously
With might or with wiles

13. His weakness was not made stronger by his silence
Until he could assault the titans

14. He did not make playthings of firmly prohibited things
As if they were on the banks of a brook

15. How could a soul like that conceive
A time, though it was brief in recording

16. The expanse of existence was too confining for it, so it drew her
To the likeness of a shadow, next to a statue

17. The statue of glory in which one sees nothing
But an unlost, undimmed man

18. Short in stature, he filled eyes with veneration
And cast a shadow into hearts that was long

19. He walked with a slight body, and rarely
Were those of intellect anything but insignificant

20. His smiling face was ever upraised
Its meanings cleansed of murkiness

21. He accompanied life and, for one chary of sin,
Laughter completed, so it remained in beginnings

22. His eyes did not tell, nor did the whitening of them,
Anything but the flashing in the crossing of swords

23. The light of two lamps flowing from them
With electrification along flowing conduits

24. And you see him most often bowing down
A bowing of no timidity or pretentiousness

25.
So he remains as one who lowers his gaze but has no eyelids

26. Veiling tightly drawn
To the melody flowing through it, his voice

27. Has an enchanting effect on souls, licitly
It elevates hearing, though its tone

28. Does not rise along with his keen mind
With a strength his dignity imparts, it imparts

29. A strength in the soul penetrating however deep
With it he surpasses his rivals victoriously

30. With it he transcends, excelling, and climbs higher

31. Oh what disappointment of hopes in this life, oh
What loss of endeavors in attaining aspirations

32. An illness spread and felled a towering pillar
With a blow lighter than the creeping of ants

33. Glory which time made away with, and formidable
Power that came to rest in the sands of deserts