1. What is wrong with the doors and balconies that they question?
Who is residing in them or who is descending?

2. Why is the door of the kingdom closed when he is departing,
And his gatherings are empty though they were assemblies?

3. What is wrong with the steeds, calm and submissive,
Humbled, though they were racers and prancers?

4. Who has made the brave men refrain from their neighing
While they, with the spears, used to be disputers?

5. What ails the sky that its lights are sickly?
For whom are the stars of the sky miserly?

6. Who tells the wailing mourner that he
Has lost one, was it a comrade or a slayer?

7. Is glory buried in a grave or did the star
Of the world set or did a lofty pillar lean?

8. I did not fear that regresses will reach him
From his glory’s side though they come meeting.

9. The doves know who - but I swear they do not know -
Some turtledoves gather around him and form circles.

10. He undertook things that perplexed fate,
While fate is in some positions ignorant.

11. O clouds, make the earth happy with your rain,
And seek the meadows to thank the plains.

12. It flows from the spout certain that the thirsty soil
From it will get water as camels do.

13. It splits the rocks as if every herd
A neighing mare led it to the water spring.

14. The dusty, terrifying campaigns move it
As if the ostrich led its remnants.

15. Their behinds swore sincere oaths
That they are groups.

16. Would that the swords of lightning severed their veins
So, from every crevice, a stream gushed forth!

17. Tell Abu al-Abbas that you are searching
Until the beloved one’s ground burns hot.

18. The earth’s layers have veiled him from me
So how do you address and correspond?

19. Your pots have prospered for they hosted you
Not like the pots in which you faced misery.

20. I cry for you while the Marmli’s sons -
After you orphans - and the women are widows.

21. For a seeker of protection, worries attack him,
Seeking food while fate devours him.

22. His resolutions perplexed, he resides not
In his house deserted nor travels.

23. Roaming misled him. He seeks a supporter;
None will meet him except a disappointer.

24. Until your favours brought him close,
A year of misery made him forget you.

25. For a group whose path to knowledge was their sins
To the people, though to you they're means.

26. They refrained from mean pursuits,
Confident while you sufficed them.

27. It severed intimacy though fate cut it off
That deception or correspondence be suspected.

28. bands - if transported are entourages
That dazzle the eyes, and if wrathful, armies

29. That by their arms the torrents seem as if
Above the spears, to the spears, they are rising.

30. If vengeance for your death was in Tha’lab
None of Tha’lab would live as your contender.

31. They denied your meat though death takes it
Truly, while you defend, heavily armed.

32. The distant one sat while the intimate
Abandoned you. The close relative did not fulfil your need.

33. The doves crowded you without complaining
Except congestion. No questioner enters you.

34. Optimistic of visiting, you did not drive
Him away or rebuff a beseecher.

35. Neither your famed generosity nor your pardon
Availed you, nor did the obtainer suffice you.

36. You were the one life was bitter and sweet for
Those who endure their living and are steadfast.

37. You became a stratagem for your enemy
That benefits not, and your friend is of no use.

38. And death is the reward of an arbiter as though
Among the people, it fairly distributes.

39. After you, no experienced person is deluded by life,
Who knew rights so falsehood did not entice him.

40. O residing one who did not fulfil his right
Of condolence! A burning liver and a sleepy eyelid!

41. I would ransom you if the misfortune
Met me instead and my beloved ones. What would I begrudge?

42. Why have my times abandoned me for losing you
Though they may be united with you and attached?

43. I used to wear your praise as a garment
Of pride trailing the trains over me.

44. Today I thank you elegizing.
The lover is muted and the flirt falls silent.

45. Its verses describe the anguish. Orphans -
Though over you a bereaved mother!

46. Of what you enjoyed the long poem, but now
Another matter preoccupies you and blocks your hearing.

47. Does what I am saying comfort you
When no song comforts what I am doing?

48. O lion, your protection does not fail even if
The den is vacant for your cub is a lion.

49. Your palm suffices to guard what you built
Of a high unmatched edifice.

50. The vigils therein make the initiator known
As the son of Hujr said of his father’s marks.

51. Rest in peace a soul. Your visitors surround it
Troops of praise and a quarter of your glory camps.

52. Think not with Saad your son rising
Your star setup though your bliss is perfect.

53. The visitors do not deny his face
In the full moon resembling the sun of daylight.

54. Be gentle with him, O Saad, and take the burden
Of how long you live and obey you did he shoulder.

55. And I am the one you are pleased with weeping
And elated by what I am saying.

56. Their and your Master is gratitude - its utterance
Uncreated and its meaning no barriers deflecting.

57. They testify it has nothing belonging to me
The day of words suitable and contending.

58. The affliction was revealed from the confusion
Doubts arose; over the dawn proofs were prevailing.

59. Poetry is improper to flirt with an excuse
In it, so she may shy away or be bewitched by Babel.