1. I offer myself for sacrifice, Abd al-Aziz
To protect you from every hated thing

2. Indeed I called upon you, so answer me
You answer those who call upon you

3. Or is it that answering my prayer
Is something, I wish I knew, you forbid yourself

4. My eyes grew accustomed to seeing you
So why can they not see you now?

5. Did you forget me and abandon me?
Never could you forget your brother!

6. You left a coal ablaze in my inner being
That only meeting you again can extinguish

7. In my heart is the searing pain
Of grief that consumes my youth

8. If only you could see whenever
I try to write poetry mourning you

9. And see my tears and the ink smudged
Across the page by my struggle

10. You would know how you left me
To suffer infernal fires of your loss

11. O you who laid him in a grave
And left him there now

12. Do not hasten to bury him
Perhaps he will come alive again

13. And I see this, can this be
Abd al-Aziz, is it really you?

14. There in the grave you lie
Covered with earth, your cheeks too

15. My heart, O my beloved, pillows itself
So how can it ever be torn from you?

16. Gently freeing his shroud
Your hands have unbound

17. They buried you - but truly buried
Just a part of your magnificence

18. No beseecher cried out but your sandals
Raced to answer his summons

19. Many a eulogizer has mourned the praiseworthy
Virtues lost when you passed

20. But loyalty, by its nature
Is a duty we owe the departed

21. And your brother Ahmad still weeps
For the loyalty you showed in life

22. Distraught, his heart afflicted, his eyelids flowing
He found a father in you when in tender youth

23. His own father left him