1. آه على وقت مع الاحباب

    قد مر لكن مر بعد ذهاب

    Alas for a time spent with loved ones!

    It has passed, but is bitter now that it is gone.

  2. طابت او يقاتي به ولغصتي

    لما انقضى بل الدموع ثيابي

    My brief moments in it were sweet; and from my choking grief,

    When it ended, tears soaked my clothes.

  3. وقت صفا بأحبة جبهاتهم

    زهر النجوم وهم اسود الغاب

    A time made serene by loved ones whose brows

    Are bright stars, while they are lions of the forest.

  4. الله من تلك الشمائل انها

    مخلوقة للحرب والمحراب

    God! What noble qualities—truly they are

    Fashioned for war and the prayer niche.

  5. شيم يراع لها الهزبر ورفعة

    نبوية علوية الاطناب

    Traits that awe the lion, and an eminence

    Prophetic, with Alid tent-ropes.

  6. كادت تطول الى السماء بنودها

    مجداً ولم ثحتج الى الاطناب

    Its banners almost reached the sky

    In glory, though they needed no tent-ropes.

  7. ولرب ذي نصح يحاول رأفة

    بي سلوة لاحبتي وصحابي

    And many a well-wisher seeks, out of compassion

    For me, to help me forget my loved ones and companions.

  8. كيف السلو وهم لروحي رونق

    تزهو به موصولة الاسباب

    How can I forget, when they are my soul’s luster,

    Through which it shines, its bonds unbroken?

  9. يا قلب لا تنس الوداد لسادة

    هم في البرية سادة الانجاب

    O heart, do not forget affection for masters—

    They are, among humankind, masters of the nobly born.

  10. زهر الوجوه جليلة احسابهم

    بيض الخصال ووضح الانساب

    Radiant of face, their ancestral honors exalted,

    White in virtue, and bright in lineage.

  11. قوم لرفعة مجدهم واصولهم

    سجدت شداد الاسد في الاعتاب

    A people before whose lofty glory and roots

    The mightiest lions prostrated themselves at the thresholds.

  12. آل النبي بني الوصي سلالة الاف

    راد والاطراز والاقطاب

    The Prophet’s family, sons of the Legatee, descendants of

    The peerless ones, the exemplars, and the spiritual poles.

  13. كم اخفقت قلبي خواطر عهدهم

    وللوعتي لان الحديد لمابي

    How often memories of days with them made my heart flutter!

    And iron softened at my burning grief, at what I suffered.

  14. ما غاب بدر في السماء بغيهب

    الا ذكرت مطالع الغياب

    No full moon vanished in the sky’s deep darkness

    Without my recalling the rising-places of the absent.

  15. يا لهفتي مذ ازمعت ركبانهم

    ليلا ولي دمع يرش ترابي

    O my anguish, since their riders resolved to depart

    At night, while my tears sprinkled my dust!

  16. ودعتهم واظن قرب لقائهم

    فدهيت فيما لم يكن بحسابي

    I bade them farewell, thinking I would soon meet them,

    Then calamity struck me in a way I had not reckoned.

  17. لا زال نور البر يملأ رحبهم

    ويفاض عنه لاهل كل رحاب

    May the light of goodness ever fill their spacious abode,

    And be poured forth from it upon the people of every land.