1. The Sheikh has joined the company of the righteous
So why, my wounds, do you bleed?

2. And why, my heart, do you complain?
And why, my tears, do you flow?

3. The Sheikh has departed from this world
Where everything except remembrance is an affliction

4. He left this world, and what is this world
Except a tent erected for passersby

5. He left this transient world for
A vast abode and gardens, and springs

6. That is what we hope for, and this is what we think
Of Him who forgives those who seek forgiveness

7. The Sheikh departed at the rise of dawn
With righteousness, steadfastness, and certainty

8. So why, O heart, do I see
This agony flowing through my veins?

9. And why, O words of poetry, do you reveal
The secret of my heart's pain?

10. Leave the regret where it is
Feeding on the sorrow of my sad heart

11. And take me on a deep journey
Into the lives of the most honorable scholars

12. And guide me on that path
Whose shade protects the faces of its wayfarers

13. O words of poetry, do not bring with you
The language of poetry to my hidden wound

14. Perhaps the wound will burn it, and then
Poetry will have a mouth that narrates yearning

15. Leave my heart's agony, for it
Sometimes hardens, and sometimes softens

16. And bring me into the oasis of knowledge
Whose gates are opened to newcomers

17. There we will see the spring
That has never stopped healing the thirsty

18. Our Sheikh was nothing but a towering flag
Bowing with the devotion of worshippers

19. The scholar of the Sunnah and jurisprudence
Through whom God has defeated the innovators

20. We do not sanctify him, but we see
Images that join him with the truthful

21. In the rays of the sun is that which avails, even if
The glances of the heedless deny it

22. A traveler - only his body is gone
And we have from his knowledge a precious treasure

23. We did not meet him on the path of desire
But on the path of the guided leaders

24. It is as if I see the world
Which displayed its allurements to onlookers

25. Coming to tempt with its seductions
Images that captivate the minds of the heedless

26. It danced around him, but found
Only the aloofness of ascetics

27. The Sheikh glanced at it
With the detachment of bowing worshippers

28. So it withdrew disappointed and defeated
Avoiding the gazes of gloaters

29. He removed the world from his heart, and in
His hand was its highest message to travelers

30. He was not isolated from it, nor
Did he close the door to those seeking guidance

31. But his heart was not preoccupied with it
It was preoccupied with the Lord of the Worlds

32. Or did he not turn away from it before him
The master of mankind, the Imam of Messengers?

33. O Sheikh, you have taught us
How to uphold the sanctity of the oppressed

34. How to feel the screams of our nation
And the tears of refugees

35. How to build the spirit of the generation upon
The approach of piety and the consciousness of maturity

36. You knew, O Sheikh, what
We have suffered from the heedlessness of the defeated

37. Our people walked the path of misery
And became playthings of the colonizers

38. Once enlightened and once occidentalized
Their land was ravaged by usurpers

39. They abandoned the righteous from their thoughts
And fell into the hands of the orientalists

40. They collapsed in the laps of the people of desires
From the tails of the usurping westernized

41. They lost al-Aqsa and thought they would gain
The peace of the transgressors

42. When suddenly the child knight
At the summit of glory called on the deluded

43. He made it a Jerusalemite epic
That reminded us of the pride of conquerors

44. The child said it and we said with him
That selling Jerusalem is the sale of losers

45. O Sheikh who guided us
To the shining images of knowledge and faith

46. You did not neglect our nation
And the misguidance of its frivolous sons

47. You called it to the path of guidance
And summoned it with the call of reformers

48. You said to the nation, while misery is
On its crying face like dust on lamentation:

49. Only the tears of the penitent
Will wash this misery from your crying face

50. O Sheikh who bid us farewell
Lofty minded and bright of forehead

51. We will meet you even if you left us
In knowledge that remained for the eager

52. You are like the sun - when it sets
It lends the full moon its radiance for the latecomers

53. You only bid us farewell to
Where your heart will be harbored by Muslims

54. If we cry for you, we are still
Resigned to the decree of God about us

55. Nothing consoles us for loved ones in
The horror of loss except the death of the Trustworthy

56. That shock for which trembled
The age of the Farouq, the discerning mind

57. The best of people died - this is news
That left people confused and lost

58. Minds were distraught until they heard
What the Truthful recited of clear words

59. Nothing consoles us for loved ones at
The height of horror except the death of the Trustworthy

60. It is the soul that elevates us
While the body remains of water and clay

61. The heart grieves but upon
Its grief we build the pride of the patient

62. We all perish while our Lord remains
The Creator of the universe, refuge of the fearful