1. The fever-stricken, yet the people in you, or is it the war,
Suffers from fever, in it the calamities and the people,

2. And it is not the terror of the enemy's fire and steel,
But it is from the awfulness of how the war separated you.

3. I received the news of recovery comfortingly,
I had barely touched until the difficult news came.

4. So I wailed and the birds wailed around me and stirred in me
My place, and the water raged and the grass caught fire.

5. And I believe your weeping in afflictions more than one who wept
Over a towering falling and a clinging fading away.

6. I sought seriously the bounding and leaping an utmost goal,
But when the matter ended the bounding and leaping became equal.

7. And your side competed with your occupation and care,
So this one has a side and that one has a side.

8. And I suffered the effort of pushing and pulling between them,
You did not rest until the pushing and the pulling ended.

9. You went as a martyr of the malady after long
Wars without stabbing or striking in them.

10. And how much did those wings carry agony,
While you are behind your infatuated people.

11. And how can medicine cure an ailment in people
When it failed them in treating your ailment, medicine.

12. Empty of you is the house of glory, the Nile and dew,
And the caller to loftiness - did the East and West empty?

13. And a burial enclosed you in the earth’s dreary soil,
And how narrow the ample world became for your hopes!

14. I - my guidance’s abode is my qiblah even before it
Near, but can nearness benefit the silent?

15. I circumambulate it comforted by its fragrance,
I greeted it from its early clouds.

16. Duties of one whom the servants were pleased with his deeds,
And the Lord honored his status in the life.

17. If the generous one’s body were like his mention,
Dust would not have taken your pure body.

18. I yearn for the past and it will not return,
And it has marched with me to what the company warned against.

19. It is as if I - reprimanding the dissenters - am passed by
An irredeemable caravan that leaves me caravan.

20. I endured my calamity and worries in them,
And the calamity and worries did not diminish to me in you.

21. And who can I meet your existence a second time
When the curtains and veils came between you and I?

22. I pretended - after forty - composure,
So it passed while my sorrows are still and the anguish.

23. The loyal and the devout came for the commemoration,
Their righteous elders and excellent youth.

24. Overflowing with intimate whispers of affection and mercy
To you - and the whispers are neither clamor nor noise.

25. They counseled what you charged them with - it is their home -
For eternity, the successful endeavor and work.

26. Take from my tears what you wish and from my blood
For my eyes are as I pledged to you and the heart.

27. If I have from your right the passion now,
Then your confusion and wonder were my rights in you.

28. And make my poetry match your justice and piety
For the good you aspire to and what I aspire to.

29. The life did not present to you my loyalty,
But it is the consciousness with you and the heart.

30. You whom the dignitaries walked around
So neither their resolution falters nor their opinion comes undone.

31. The freemen supported you from every side
With the resolve of loyalty they arose and with loyalty’s resolve they grew up.

32. And how many a champion whose opinion made him
Needless of the sword, radiant, and books made him needless of brigades.

33. Had you wished in your valley the might of its people,
The valleys would have come rushing to help it without it calling.

34. For your name - which is the name of magnanimity - however
The planets and meteors moved in their courses.

35. Whoever survives in all consciences
Statues and monuments cannot lack survival.

36. And every leader who walked your path in purpose,
His partisans are his traces in it and the faction.

37. Whoever leaves the life while his inheritance is
His praises to the progeny - the progeny will double it.

38. Whoever is not enabled by himself for glory,
Then he has none to blame but himself.

39. Whoever was not for the kingdom redemptive in spirit,
Then he has in it no food or drink.

40. The barrenness is not the loss of its fruits to the fever,
But the loss of men - that is the barrenness.

41. War almost catches fire in the whole earth,
So no dry or wet remains in it.

42. Predators, while people walk in it straying,
They want it as booty and they demolish it,

43. And between them is only looting ruins.
If only you were among its witnesses the day of reconciliation,

44. To erase after war what war begot.
And complete for the valley its right from fate -

45. Your decree in it, not questioning or usurpation.
If the era's sin is that you are absent,

46. Then for the present existent the sin has been forgiven.
It suffices you after the benevolent ones, successors

47. Who are your brethren, and the two sons, and the family and companions.
You left them for good after you as brothers

48. Caring and love makes congenial.
And every place among them for you they beautified -

49. Your beauty in it - its prosperous settlers.
Traits of magnanimity working while they have nothing

50. Except pride of the homelands - neither spoils nor profit.