فاضَت دُموعُكَ ساكِبَه

جَزَعاً لِمَصرَعِ والِبَه

Your tears poured out

Your tears have overflowed, a pouring stream,

Grieving for the death of your protector

In anguish for the fall of Walibah.

قامَت بِمَوتِ أَبي أُسا

مَةَ في الزُقاقِ النادِبَه

Usamah's death brought about grief

She rose to mourn the death of Abu Usamah,

In the wailing alley

The wailing woman in the narrow lane.

قامَت تَبُثُّ مِنَ المَكا

رِمِ غَيرَ قيلِ الكاذِبَه

Grief arose, uttering

She stood to broadcast his noble virtues,

Nothing but the truth

With truth, distinct from any liar's speech.

فُجِعَت بَنو أَسَدٍ بِهِ

وَبَنو نِزارٍ قاطِبَه

The tribes of Asad and Nizār mourned him

The Banu Asad were bereaved of him,

Universally

And all the sons of Nizar, everyone.

بِلِسانِها وَزَعيمِها

عِندَ الأُمورِ الحازِبَه

With her words and her leader

He was their spokesman and their confirmed chief,

In hazardous affairs

Whenever grave and crushing matters fell.

لا تَبعَدَنَّ أَبا أُسا

مَةَ فَالمَنِيَّةُ واجِبَه

Do not make Abu Usamah distant

May you not be far cast, Abu Usamah,

For death is a duty

For death is a debt incumbent on us all.

كُلُّ اِمرِئٍ تَغتالُهُ

مِنها سِهامٌ صائِبَه

Death takes the life

Every man shall be assailed one day,

Of every person with unerring arrows

By arrows of fate that strike strictly true.

كُتِبَ الفَناءُ عَلى العِبا

دِ فَكُلُّ نَفسٍ ذاهِبَه

Impermanence was prescribed for servants

Extinction is decreed for all God's servants,

So every soul shall pass away

And every living soul must pass away.

كَم مِن أَخٍ لَكَ قَد تَرَك

تَ هُمومَهُ بِكَ ناصِبَه

How many dear ones have you left behind

How many a brother have you left behind,

With worries against you set up

Whose grief for you remains unceasingly?

قَد كانَ يَعظُمُ قَبلَ مَو

تِكَ أَن تَنوبَ النائِبَه

He had thought it too grave before your death

It was a dreadful thought, before your death,

That you would take the place of the successor

That such a calamity should come to pass.