1. O eye, for this momentous tragedy
Rend your clouds for the pouring rain,

2. And burst springs of tears forthwith
Into an ocean, do not be content with a little.

3. Sleep, do not pray it nor forsake it in grief,
For wakefulness in the like thereof is incumbent on the wretched.

4. O heart, if you do not split in anguish
Between the ribs, then depart from them and move on.

5. And you, O patience, turn your back defeated,
For armies of sorrow have come to you from all sides.

6. We have been afflicted with the loss of one whose loftiness
Was the zenith of all summits and the utmost of heights.

7. A midday sun, but eternally
She settled nowhere but the abode of the Haml.

8. She is gone, so the shade of generosity has moved on,
And have you ever heard of a shade that does not move?

9. And when she turned in our breasts, kindled
A war that tells of (the battles of) Siffin and Jamal.

10. And every eloquent voice began to mourn her
With all kinds of spontaneous metaphors.

11. Who will be openhanded to the widows and orphans
When the raincloud's palm is miserly with its droplets?

12. And who will protect the victims of misfortunes, and who
Can be hoped to believe in good omens and aspirations?

13. And who will be generous to the prosperous if they paused
At the ruins of its benevolence, ruined and desolate?

14. How much anguish did she deposit when she bade farewell,
And a sorrow from which recovering is endless!

15. After her the eyes of meaning cried in grief
As fate bared its teeth in a sinister grin,

16. So deny sleep, and say to fate, "Sleep, for you, O fate,
Have paralyzed the palm of glory with paralysis."

17. For you have slain a sun, compared to which
The midday sun would not descend below Saturn.

18. And a meadow that did not fear the tyranny of its guard,
And was often inaccessible, blocked by trench and fence.

19. You have deliberately forced faces into
What you have manifested of pure error and stumbling.

20. Noble in status, she succeeded with her Creator
Because of the good she stored of righteous deeds,

21. And was settled in Paradise, eternal,
Swimming in the ink of pleasure and bliss.

22. The chaste one of glory, pure in lineage between the Prophet, and after him the Seal of Messengers,
And the Commander of the Faithful, Ali.

23. Mother of Hussein, whose nobilities
Traversed the horizons like the sun and the exemplar.

24. An angel in her possession contracts of generosity,
That transform the hue of nights though they are not [yet] nights.

25. The hunt falls short of attaining its goal
In effort, but attains it easily without haste.

26. If you meet her, you are endowed with dew and flowers
Of the freshest and sweetest, or with the gallant knight.

27. Of a company penetrating in intellect, their ambition
Is to attain the utmost peak of the glory of the first masters.

28. Of the traveler in recollection throughout Syria and Yemen,
The open-handed in Haf and Mintaqil.

29. Of the keepers of the faith from the opinion of extremists and what
May sprout thereof in deviance and pitfalls.

30. Of those who dispel the shadows of dark events with their counsel
When the face of fate frowns with gravity.

31. Of the leaders of armies, like the sea, crashing,
Their advance from clouds of victory into shadows.

32. Of those who bestow eggs and chestnut steeds coupled
To which are joined the generosity of horses and camels.

33. Of the rulers of all the kingship in the world,
Who have none equal to them after Allah.

34. Of those whose eggs pour onto the ardent gamblers, ceaselessly,
In illnesses and in soft sands.

35. Of those whose chestnut steeds nurse the curved shanks with that
Which spills from the water-bags in the desert.

36. But they guaranteed educating it forever,
If it recoiled ferociously to war aflame.

37. A people who established the laws of God and forestalled
With good omens and the scattering of sweet basil.

38. They inhabit the shade of pasture on a day of tumult
And accompany the lutes therein without boredom.

39. Tilting, as if they never knew of speech
Other than take what you desire and set forth.

40. Their dynasty illuminates the lands of Islam
As if it were the new moon in the brow of dynasties.

41. And through their dynasty, many a dynasty was abolished,
As if it were the nation of Islam amongst nations.

42. I found with them ample space for speech,
So if you find a tongue that speaks, then say:

43. Why do we not partake with them in events when we
Have partaken with them in wealth and ponies?

44. May God pray upon them as long as stars
Traverse the horizon after their father, the Seal of Messengers.