1. With my soul, I approach his tomb,
Though his terrible fate has overwhelmed me.

2. His soil mingles with the breeze,
And the morning fragrance is diffused.

3. It is as if the songbird in my hearing
Is wailing for me in extreme melancholy.

4. O you who settled where the new decays,
And the evident delight has withered.

5. I recalled you as the lover recalls the beloved,
Stirred by the ruins that speak plainly.

6. Neither a burning liver has saddened me,
Nor a flowing tear has disappointed me.

7. Remaining where the keen of hearing is deaf,
And the ambitious of sight is blind.

8. The manifest enemy grieves for you,
And the envious slanderer laments you.

9. As if no glorious throne has supported you,
Nor a smooth couched has carried you swimming.

10. And you have not plunged into deep sorrows,
Where your pouring rain would drown them.

11. The rain has quenched your generosity, pouring
On your grave, a pouring shower.

12. It embroiders rhymes in your domain,
As the praising poet embroidered the ode.

13. Everyday I see a new horror for us,
Like frightened cattle gone astray.

14. Surprised by serious problems,
As if time was joking with us.

15. We justify ourselves with our position,
While travel urges us in its folds.

16. A life made fertile with doves,
Must give birth to one who shoots them down.

17. Every excess leads to an end,
Though the violent one drags his reins.

18. Life is but a swoop of feathers
To where the shooter has let it drop.

19. Time has advised those it has deceived,
Yet the advisor is blamed.

20. God has protected a most wondrous protector of the country
Whose outstanding doing is wandering.

21. Most noble is he who adorns his glory with piety,
And is supported by his clear nobility.

22. O you of bounties - no hoopoe was startled
By your loss however much it has trilled.

23. No door of favors is shut
Unless you have opened it.

24. The confidence of the kingdom insisted none guard it
Except you, while time assails it.

25. Not every shade shelters
Those scorched by the blazing sun.

26. He crossed the sea seeking the water of generosity,
While the salty is plunged into.

27. You rush to relieve it of sorrows
As the wailer relieves his wailing.

28. Mayhem and injustice cower before it,
As the barren she-camel cowers before the virile male.

29. You have inclined with compassion toward one most wretched,
As the fertile camel inclines to the barren.

30. And your soaring generosity has guaranteed it,
Prosperity and glory.

31. Deeds - not downpours of heavy rain -
Have surpassed them, nor their trailing clouds.

32. And I swear, had a protector guarded
A glory from death’s incursion.

33. But the souls of people
Are lamentations which the comforter rejects.

34. And which gallant lad has the fate
Approached without craving its intimacy?

35. You have preceded the steeds of kings to glory,
As the strong palm tree precedes the slender.