1. You betrothed me with worries when
You told me with the tongues of the two old friends

2. You brought me down through my son, rather you robbed me
Of the light of my eye so the fires darkened

3. You obscured my brightness after its emergence
And it's wondrous that the two bright stars could be obscured

4. Oh what a calamity upon calamity that came
And wounds that make one moan with another wound

5. And affliction over affliction and bereavement
After bereavement I was afflicted in my soul

6. O consoler who consoles me for the loss
Of my son, whom I hoarded for my time

7. Do not try to console me with consolation
That is not like me, fooled by delusions

8. In my mind there is the flame of hellfire
Some of it burning with the heat of fires

9. And much of calamities, a large group
And deep sorrows that multiplied my sorrows

10. And tears that flow from the blood of my eyelids
Onto my cheeks like springs

11. And I lost comfort so I lost my sleep
So you see me observing the Pleiades

12. Instead of living after the loss of Hussein
With worries, agony, and disgrace

13. And I hated life and age when
He disappeared from my sight and left my place

14. If an enemy saw me, he would have mercy
And a friend would cry for what pained me

15. Through my son I was anguished so how can I
Have patience that pairs me to a place

16. I fretted over his tomb and the doctors were confused
And our hopes for wellness were unfulfilled

17. From his treatment, and the cure did not stand
And medicine did not work in time

18. Oh my tears and oh my sighs help me
With the fire of bereavement and the flood

19. My soul pined the next day when he went to the soil
And they had sent him away from my homelands

20. They sent him to the cemetery by force
They placed him for the grave and shrouds

21. They hid him from my sight and conscience
He is depicted in it to envision

22. And his house that was once filled
With his expressions and meanings was emptied of him

23. So the remnants of his traces have hot eyes
And his words have piercing ears

24. Joy disappeared from me since he disappeared
And the whiteness of hope and walls darkened

25. Oh my two friends, help me with crying
Or with tears or do not blame me

26. And have mercy on me for my worries have multiplied
And my tears have ulcerated my eyelids

27. And mourn him for me for all my thoughts are of him
And the elegies have filled my tongue

28. Every year death takes a share from me
In the families of sons and brothers

29. So I see death and calamities both
Bereaving me so how can they not dishearten me

30. For indeed I have not ceased crying
My eye sorrowful, enduring sorrows

31. Do not blame me, oh consoler of me, if my heart is
Hurt from the separation of friends