1. Abdul Hussein, for his deeds we are grateful
Sami saw glory in us, and the son of Mashkur

2. My father Zefaf of the worldly for him passed
Rejoicing for the wedding of the lovely Houri

3. Suffering from poison in his limbs hurting
Until his life ended in the month of Ashura

4. Yearning for his family, his sickness raised
With poison in the clutches of death buried

5. Treated with medicines of the doctor, but who
Can ward off death from him with medicines?

6. And calling out for the saints but not in them
Except bewildered and frightened glances

7. Seeking aid from his family, so his brother
Embraced him with a heart torn open

8. My son show me kindness and tenderness for in me is pain
Beyond what you know and more than is possible

9. And regrets that would split solid rock
And sighs exhaled from an aching chest

10. I could not bear to see you on your death bed
In a sigh that set my heart ablaze

11. I prepared perfumes for the wedding days and knew not
You would need them to scent your burial

12. He passed, so let there be in our hearts a homeland
And let us show patience in this uninhabited grave

13. I hoped wedding clothes you would wear
Yet they shrouded you in an unembroidered robe

14. And God chose him and chose for him paradise
Abodes, wherein he dwells best contained

15. And instead of wedding scatterings shards
Of reddened tears on your resting place showered

16. And instead of henna that tints the hands
Are the yellow-nailed fingers of mortality

17. But I showed patience, for patience is rewarded
And the Lord rewards the patient unfailingly

18. I turned my cheek submitting to God, and said
My resting place in the earth, forget me not

19. And let him be pleased with my inadequate eulogy
For none leaves the obligatory for the voluntary

20. Still the two pleasures of acceptance persist
On a grave in people's hearts engraved