1. The east finds solace in his immortal eloquence
When the lord of eloquence passes away without a morrow

2. The guardian of the faith, the unparalleled one of his age
Rarely is praise sufficient to call him unparalleled

3. A friend - when I lost him I lost all joy
What loneliness compares to that of the despairing bereaved one

4. His tomb is watered by the falling tears of my weeping eyes
And after this day my heart follows his trace

5. And I feel poetry cannot console me
In his tragedy except the lamentations of the grieving one

6. My dear friend, why are people around me startled
To see me in the stillness of annihilation

7. So do not tempt me with oblivion - my nature refuses
Any oblivion when it falls into my hands

8. I seek the refined and the free throughout his life
None answer me but the unjust and the transgressor

9. He who judged - excellent was his judgment in any case
He whose glory was pure, gentle was his judgment

10. He who, in times of peace and war
Had only the traits of the righteous

11. He who attained glory and noble daring
Who never was a rebel or a transgressor

12. A gallant man whose words and deeds
Both public and hidden were naught but good

13. Whenever he called for protection from what appeared to him
As truth, he grew resolute, purposeful and determined

14. With a resolve that, at the time of death, gave him
A radiance to dazzle like the shining bare sword

15. But now that his formidable struggle is apparent
And the bastion of superiority lies threatened

16. Let every writer boast of his precious pearls
And every poet shriek at the top of his voice

17. Do you spend your nights remembering a fine poet
Like that uniquely gifted poet?

18. Do your days still allow a writer
Of the same inspired spirit?

19. An eloquent master, who attained the ultimate
And created verses to which glory bowed

20. His prose and verse were miraculous, unleashed thoughts
Neither chained nor constrained

21. Whose purpose was to express the most challenging ideas
In easy, graceful, fluent words

22. He who by charm distances the nearest
And by endearment draws close the farthest

23. When you describe longing, you imagine it flows
From what nestled in the tearful lover's eyelid

24. The soul listens to it with a yearning
That calls, like the melodious warbling thrush

25. Its subtlety of execution and creation transcended
The emulation of well-arranged necklaces

26. Greetings O literatus of the East, not Egypt alone
Greetings O father of the beautiful innovative art

27. Thoughts of the misery you endured in life
With such fortitude melt my heart

28. Oh my countrymen - eloquence is neglected
Lost through neglect and lack of support

29. By your Lord, your garden and its fruits
When the garden is unwatered and untended

30. If the blackness of sin did not fill the pages
Of the writers, they would not be rewarded with more misery

31. Sparing them little in their livelihood
While summoned to adorn every occasion

32. And from their glory many take shelter in its shade
The children of the free, glorious, hallowed nation

33. So what good does it do them in their lives
To devote themselves completely to knowledge

34. Oh Safiyya who died in the prime of his life
And lived untainted by nature undefeated

35. Return to God, patient and resigned
Excellent is the guardian of the patient resigned one

36. You tasted harm in the pastures of torment
So taste now in the bliss of eternity, the sweetest drink