1. May God forgive what playfulness and youth led him to do,
And whatever passed of the sayings and deeds of youth.

2. I enjoyed his radiant morn with the finest living,
Until he went away freely on his path.

3. When he turned away, old age befell us after him,
With its advent the pleasures of life were denied.

4. It came down like an unwelcome guest, until when it lodged,
We saw death as our guest in its arrival.

5. Grievous as our sorrows were at its coming,
Greater yet was our fear of its leaving.

6. And it had been distracting him from age and its burdens,
The meeting of a youth fair of face and refined.

7. Generous, held dear by those who had not met him,
Bountiful, who would give fortune before being asked.

8. Ingenious in unraveling the most complex matters,
Sublime in building up acts of nobility and worth.

9. We visit his tomb, so it gives us profit
From what is transmitted and spoken about him.

10. Through Abdul Rahim the Virtuous has burst forth for us
A spring whose streams of excellence copiously flow.

11. Understandings were cross-pollinated from his breaths,
So that all we knew in abundance is now little.

12. When we praise him for his merit,
We see the amplest eulogy as inadequate for his stature.

13. I see him as one who gave to the same degree as he saw
In giving, in his soul, his own worth.