1. On the slope of that hill lies a grave by the hot spring
With a mound in the earth reaching up to the sky

2. Overlooking the endless ocean, containing
One greater than the endless ocean and mightier

3. The light of sunrise revives it at every dawn
And morning weeps over it with relentless tears

4. Night leans over it frightened
Lighting moons and stars over it

5. Trees surround it as if
Mourners grieving, lamenting in pain

6. Stretching their shade over it, its face frowning
Whenever a sunbeam smiles through the branches

7. And doves mourn it with elegy and yearning
Cooing atop the branch, holding a funeral

8. The passerby pours a teardrop
And bows in sorrow, praying compassionately

9. He walks on, with a feeling in his heart
Of despair kindling his innards aflame

10. For a father the like of whom God never created
By his death, orphaned, utterly devastated

11. Father, you made me forget every orphan's destitution
By your death, twice made destitute

12. You were most generous until you owned it all
When you left, it was divided and gone

13. You were great of mind, heart, and manner
Noble, praiseworthy, magnificent

14. You were pure of spirit, faith, and refuge
Intrepid, courageous, steadfast

15. Your virtues the breeze relates as it blows
Gently over your noble grave in Islam

16. Father, if you could see me, my faint soul withered
Dragging an empty, crumbling body

17. A malady rends my heart, and the malady is fatal
When it rages I pray and it intensifies, shatters

18. I go with worries filling my chest
And return with calamities overflowing

19. Yes, if you could see, my chest breathes out its spirit
You would see horror and despair embodied

20. If only when you died, we had died together
To see the soil as reward and the end as profit

21. You became a soul in the heavens, trusted
While your body in the world to the earth surrendered

22. And I am devoted to both this and that
So woe to me from the world and woe from the sky

23. They sent me a drawing, in which I see
Your beauty dead, shrouded in loss

24. Our loved ones gathered around it, evoking sorrow
I saw them around the departed, swarming

25. I saw them unable to restrain their hearts’ pain
Over you, silent in grief and agony

26. And the hair spilled out
Gleaming, for separation became inevitable

27. You took refuge in death, but death is unjust
While you are silent, you will not speak

28. Father, where has what we had gone? For I see
Today my life your color darkened

29. I see no dawn, no twilight
But I see something of the night, pitch-black

30. Terror and doom smote it
Enshrouding it thickly with calamities

31. Phantoms circled, their eyes around it
Like fires hurling flames

32. The heart of the air shuddered, the air chilled
Its fires dripping blood on its folds

33. By your life, no man has been tried with calamities
More severe than those I have known, greater

34. Except a stop, O grave, that quells anguish
And gladdens this desperate orphan

35. I melt the blackness of my eyelids in grief
And water the soil until it shows mercy

36. I ask it about my father, how is he
When they lodged him in it an honored guest?

37. Gently and kindly I ask it to treat its guest
For he has the right not to be wronged or exploited

38. O his grave, every day and night
Upon you may the Lord of the Throne send prayers and peace