1. A tear from the tears of youth's era
I had hidden it for the day of affliction

2. It came today, O Muhammad, when
The obituary of the most eloquent writers pained me

3. It calmed my agony and gladdened me a little
About my heart and softened some of my pain

4. The funeral procession walks behind your coffin
In resignation, sorrow, and lamentation

5. None passed by the dwellings of Badr except
A few of the loyal friends and loved ones

6. None walked in it attempting to gain
Favor with the living or to ingratiate

7. A procession overflowing on its sides with
Crowds of ethics and reputations

8. Loyalty and grief spread in it until
Its throngs overwhelmed the vast plains

9. As if the sky and earth walked in it
With awe and the glory of His throne

10. The emperors of earth wish they had gained
This followings upon their deaths

11. Many a coffin has been escorted by thousands
In black, topped by clothes of black

12. Among them is no true griever or saddened
Of sincere effort, or sympathetic to the afflicted

13. You would not accept the stars as a dwelling
So why did you accept the abode of dust?

14. You were the soul's comfort in the gathering of intimacy
And the mind's comfort in discourse

15. You would not burden a friend with blame
Nor violate the privacy of companions

16. And if you blamed or got angry
Soon reconciled, gentle in reproach

17. You performed seventy pilgrimages, caring not
If the witness succeeded each other, or passed

18. It was the same to you, judgment being free
Whether the spirit of April or hot August

19. O gallant one, and gallantry is but
Patience, not plunging into the depths of perils

20. You were most patient if matters got difficult
And the means were blocked and inaccessible

21. How often you were patient while hopes lay slain
And you remained steadfast while luck was contrary

22. You lived your life like firmly rooted mountains
Above a fire that melts the hardest rocks

23. Preferring misery and woe to complaining
Though time gnawed you with its teeth

24. You would be alone with your soul as it burned
From cups of worries and misfortunes

25. So you would comfort it with remembrance and dispel
What had saddened and depressed it

26. And you saw the loneliness of your isolation as
Company through conversing with souls and minds

27. You turned away from it though you gained nothing
For you had tasted its bitterness throughout the eras

28. And you spurned wealth, generously spending
From disdain in spending which is the worst shame

29. Had you seen Muhammad as he dictated
The verses of Jesus and the miracles of the Book

30. Rows of meanings and rows of words
From every door would stand around him

31. You would know the era of the son of Bahr
Had returned to the East after long absence

32. Manners well-balanced and a heart all-encompassing
And an intellect that shows you the light of meteors

33. With a well-guided opinion, resolute determination
And knowledge overflowing like rain clouds

34. His style, pure and refined, transcended
Abstruseness, repulsion, and confusion

35. And his sincere criticism, far from insult
Was never tainted by abuse

36. You tasted in your exile from life hardship
So taste today comfort in returning

37. Convey to Al-Baqillani greetings from me
Like the fragrance of gardens or soft silk

38. He was my mentor, and was of the blessings
Of the Glorious Creator upon communities

39. A knight of refinement when the horses failed
And a knight of repartee in answering

40. Who would send the witty anecdote walking
Through the essence of feeling like a draft of wine

41. The two Muhammads buried have stirred up
In my heart grief while elevating my composure

42. They left me behind among friends, lonely
Wretched, intensifying my absence