1. Religion mourned, showing me a moment of distress,
And people between stupefaction and confusion.

2. Deaf, most harmful, untying the tongues with calamities,
More painful than the wilderness, sadder than every lament.

3. Goodness and restraint collapsed suddenly with overwhelming,
No consolation, nor patience within capability.

4. You see faces sullen, without movement in them,
As if they were struck by the blowing of the horn.

5. Overwhelmed by a decree with no way to reverse it,
Predestined in God's Book, transcribed.

6. It ignited in every heart grief, and in every hearing
The earthquake of the braying of camels.

7. The clamor of knowledge has faded, so its meteors poured out,
The clamor of tears of sorrow cooked.

8. The sun of guidance has set while it was shining,
So the lamps of terror mingled with lamps of terror.

9. The disobedient besieged him, then plunged at him
Successive news of the death of the owner of claws.

10. The lights of sciences have faded, and they have become
Ashamed of the nakedness of their weaving by storms.

11. The nights have not been fair to us in their flow
With every lasting inclination, a burning brand.

12. It has certainly recounted sayings, and has not lied
If it sank its claws in the best of the buried.

13. In the tragedy of loss terrified and seeking refuge,
The familiar is now unknown and denied.

14. Tell death, is there comfort after
No comfort following comfort with Ibn Ashur?

15. It corrupted the best of religion and life
Whose goodness we have probed in the furthest enmity.

16. So today its aspects have softened
With sadness, and the garment of distress covers it.

17. The meteors in the green sky wander
Not transgressing the face of driving away and deception.

18. O time, woe to you, you have deafened the generous through it
So they are like a necklace whose center has scattered.

19. I adjure you by God, do you know anyone in Tunis
From a pocket on the like of abundant virtue?

20. Repeat its traits if you are a pretender
And see which young man among them is rained upon.

21. How many questioners make the Law subservient,
Bald snakes, clipped talons.

22. And indolent ones who have given the rope of his rope a reason
Elevated by a look of prosperity known.

23. And drawing floods from his gnosis
Provide him with a gift beyond reach.

24. Answering his questioner with virtue and knowledge
With what benefits melody without disturbance.

25. Appointing many of those loyal to him
While having many composed poems with hidden meanings.

26. An exemplar of perfection, the eye of time has not seen
Anyone like him since the early generations.

27. Oh what a loss, a hill of knowledge that a grave has hid
And the glory of dignity with minarets.

28. I ask God’s forgiveness, nothing but a body was buried
While perfection was in it, a full moon illuminating.

29. It is the law of all people and its destination,
And the limit of what a young man is restricted by.

30. He lowered a prestigious living with humility,
Raising the train of one debased and disgraced.

31. Easy with people, humble in responding, sometimes
Distracted with the affair, weak with the general public and the specific.

32. Nothing removes him except in an honorable state,
Anticipating the eyes of favor visible.

33. Nations eulogize his gnosis,
Among them the nostrils of a branded and castrated camel.

34. Everyone speaks with breaths held back,
In his neighbor, and tears with pouches.

35. May God cover with acceptance the resting place of one
With knowledge, inspired by the dictation of pens.

36. May God cover with acceptance the resting place of one
With eloquence, who refuted the greatest confusion.

37. May God cover with acceptance the resting place of one
With forbearance, who taught the finest excuses.

38. May God cover with acceptance the resting place of one
With good tidings, who translated the best sermons.

39. O pure of heart from any hatred or envy,
And generous soul beyond any garment of falsehood.

40. And lofty goal above confusion or nonsense,
And any affectation of an innate disposition.

41. And truthful in play, sealed with
Easiness of humor, appearing with good and benevolence.

42. And knowing the politics of time and what
Fills the records of knowledge and advice.

43. And with the eloquence which the prominent pour out
Sayings majestic in wording and content.

44. Oh what a time you have weakened with your absence,
The absence of wisdom from an enjoyable company.

45. Yearning for dilemmas that have no solution but you
O Abu al-Hasan with an answer to perplexities.

46. Yearning for the sublime court of Islamic Law, so
Your position in it has become uninhabited.

47. Yearning so no genius, when you see him,
Flees from your opinion in a matter and affair.

48. It grieves us that an ambiguous issue arises
While your angry opinion in it is not well known.

49. It grieves us that you clear away the darkness, a burning brand,
While morning has no steeds like your investigations.

50. It grieves us that your striking become weak so no palm
Suffices against an enemy or prepared perdition.

51. If positions are devoid of you, then its corners have shone
With your praise, perfumed and fragrant.

52. Your favor upon us was shown by its loss, and so
The soul dislikes all ease.

53. One who sees your mention as shelter
On a day not inhabited has not fulfilled your due right.

54. O you who today does not answer the caller
You made sleepless those who have not tasted the wine of wakefulness.

55. You were not done justice by souls that did not burst in yearning,
And eyes that did not overflow after your loss.

56. Sorrow did not leave us if it did depart,
But to renew precautions.

57. No matter how many successors of the two eras come about,
Still, you think the successor is not pictured.

58. God knows the affliction made us drink
A cup of the poison of despair engraved.

59. God knows separation has frightened us
So we see after nothing but the detested.

60. God knows loss has disturbed us
So there is no stability or safety from caution.

61. God knows startling news terrified us
That we report to every cautious and protected hearing.

62. Sorrow, when hearts attempt it, sorrow ties to them
The heat of condolences like the baking of an oven.

63. It consoles - though your memory comes in eras -
If what consoles about you is not prohibited.

64. Absence cannot remove one whose long companionship
In ease and prosperity was not brief.

65. And how can one be burned whose policy
Brought down divine protection from misguidance and recklessness?

66. The hearts of clubs were inspired by him
And the sayings of Islamic Law fluent, not restricted.

67. Today there is no plan free of being beneath a plan,
Nor a cheerful chest without relief.

68. That which chilled our insides
From the cold of your mention has become the heat of stoking.

69. People will know today what they denied of you
And they will blame themselves for appreciated efforts from you.

70. They will remember you at the start and end
From those made to covet, hoped for and cautioned against.

71. Whoever had your care as reward in his book
Then he has attained success, holding on to the claws.

72. So one with loyalty will not lack your benefit
Alive or dead, intended or stored away.

73. If death aimed for you, then it is aiming
For every one clothed in renowned virtue.

74. And if it hurried you from life unexpectedly,
Then it was no home to settle for the generous.

75. Death for the virtuous is an honorable act
In which they rise above the settlements of the insignificant.

76. Your soul has ascended when it was purified and refined,
From a position for an unlimited ocean.

77. And dispatched you to a house in which you will be
With loved ones, devoted and devout.

78. A house in which is your greatest grandfather and his followers
Prayers be upon him who created him from light.

79. So congratulations on meeting the Generous Lord and the
Grandfather, the intercessor, and drag the train of your luck.

80. And may God magnify the reward of both worlds, for
A calamity in you, unbounded, has struck them.

81. They have folded at your grave the spreading of generosity
As the scroll will be folded on the day of blowing into the horn.

82. And they have inherited sciences that the historian calls out
And deposits of knowledge in the grave of Ibn Ashur.

83. And a wonderful first moment that immortalized a light,
Verily upon the pure scholar the ornaments of light.