1. Serenity, but does serenity last?
Delight, but delight does not remain.

2. And joy, yet for sorrows we were created.
What day can we be joyous? We are not everlasting.

3. Existence, yet for annihilation we were created.
How can we exist when annihilation afflicts us?

4. Immortality, yet for death we were born.
Construction, yet for ruin, construction.

5. Life, yet no permanence for the finite.
Does not eternity belong to the Eternal?

6. How deluded is the world with the home of deception!
It is a home wherein lies misery and ordeal.

7. And tribulations within us, tribulations in succession.
Oh my restless heart, will tribulations ever cease?

8. God suffices us, we have been tested.
With a flame, perfect is its ascent.

9.
Its light is knowledge and wisdom radiant.

10. Its guidance filled the universe with illumination.
A sun of knowledge rose disdainfully.

11. To the sun of sciences ascends disdain.
A master with whom every master.

12. Exalted, was an exemplar and model.
A refined, eminent, valiant scholar.

13. Presented by virtue, the scholars.
An ocean of knowledge, surging in every art.

14. And in each, ascending and transcending.
A singular scholar, none can equal.

15. And now, few are his peers.
Ahmad Bazri, the unique star of Sidon,

16. Through whom its religious decree ascended.
He upon whom sciences and people praised,

17. And upon him pure praise settled.
His God called him to meet Him,

18. And gardens wherein is bliss and pleasure.
He journeyed quickly, responsively,

19. And for God, the meeting was pleasant.
God refreshed his soul, and his shrine,

20. He made it a fragrant garden.
From the gardens of Paradise wherein He granted him,

21. And with bliss through him it was filled.
And inspiration envelops his grave,

22. Watering him from pleasure and life.
When he passed away, our hearts took flight,

23. Raining tears as weeping afflicted us.
And for him our hearts melted,

24. Ripped by sorrow and adversity.
God emptied within them patience until,

25. They now withstand the affliction of their grief.
And endowed them awareness without confusion,

26. That through people his memory lasts.
So he lives, he did not die, as long as

27. His remembrance in our time endures.
Wherever he was the sun, he left within us

28. His two brilliant, most high moons.
They both reposed, knowledge in the sky of perfection,

29. Through them glory and sublimity shone.
My Lord, so open for them the best opening,

30. Through which their understanding and intellect rise.
And make truth their habit so that,

31. Deviation and mistake remain distant.
And prolong, my Lord, their age,

32. As long as the leaves rustled.
No star appeared nor lightning flashed,

33. No meadow breeze shook the branches.
No son of Fathallah aspired goodness of end,