1. Patience is most beautiful if borne
And lighter if sincerity in suffering is true

2. O you who brought all to grief
You were but a guest briefly halting

3. You went before me into death, thus
The good always go first, first

4. And death has certainly pierced our ranks
And I remain in a better part

5. We lived an era in blessing
While you bear every heavy burden

6. And you sealed the breach of those who passed
And those remaining met tribulations

7. And you spared me and spared them what should be feared
And warded off the blows of fate from us and it cleared

8. So let every good soul weep for you
And let those who loved or hated mourn you

9. And let a brilliant memory of you remain
As long as the ignorant night turns and day breaks

10. You beautified our company and lengthened our days
When we were dispersed it was neither this way nor that

11. O you whose worth surpassed loftiness
Above what you have reached wavering

12. So attain with your Lord your full share
And alight in His presence for you have reached the halt

13. For Him you left the vanishing and never
Ceased to be given to good works

14. No day of your life passed fruitless
But it was sweetened with piety and made fruitful

15. The night knows from you a reverent vigil
To God pouring out copious tears

16. Tasting not the savor of sleep
Except fleetingly, denying his eyelids to close

17. So He inundated you between bowing and prostrating
With the tears of His piety, pleading and humble

18. His heart scorched and his tongue
Guiding the Book to God rhythmically chanting

19. What can I hope for after your burial in the soil
Alas the hoper is wrong in what he hoped

20. O Granter of the precious soul that You have taken
Make it in the Abode of Pleasure accepted

21. And I have lost before it a namesake
Splattered with the blood of my heart, slain

22. Grief upon grief succeed in its bereavements
And just as I mourned them my utmost is to mourn

23. I consoled myself from them and perhaps
Weeping overcame my composure and flowed

24. O piercing arrow of fate
One day you must strike down the slain

25. Excuse me Abā Mārwān I lived and did not die
Relying on you and my death would have been easier

26. So go as the alive go more lofty
And leave every low valley

27. For you have left an enduring structure of truth
Remaining new and the new itself decays

28. Would that I had died before you a precursor
And you remained after me steady and calm

29. To you would come our freed and prisoner
And you would loosen the shackles of every afflicted sufferer

30. Days do not fail to bring the like of your glory
Brighter, more generous in rights and more generous still

31. And fiercer in his devotion to God
And stronger in resolve through adversities and I say

32. I would wish your piety mixed with some dryness
To be my excuse within my heart if it asked

33. But creation has commended you and risen
Above any fault the eyes might imply

34. God’s prayers upon you from the first
His blessings manifest and the finest model

35. A cup constantly overflowing has watered you
Quenching knowledge luminous and perfect

36. And the Guardian has promised you a mercy
Opening unto Paradise a gate locked

37. I prepared after you two conditions which are
Patience I restrain and a neglected tear

38. The eye has neglected you as it has assured
And been faithful to its pact with you to neglect

39. No delight remains in life for me without you
And if its taste turned bitter in what dissolved

40. I spoke to your grave with copious tears
And saw your figure in my mind pictured clear

41. And I wished as we lived together we together
Would be if your company missed being the swiftest