1. I wept and the death of Ja'far was momentous
Love of the Prophet over all the creation

2. And I was distraught when you were announced dead to me
Who can face the executioner and its shadows

3. With the swords when they are unsheathed from their scabbards
A day when the spears collide and excel each other

4. After the son of Fatima the Blessed, Ja'far
The best of all creation and its most majestic

5. Derided and the most generous of them, united
And the proudest, most wronged, and most humiliated

6. For the truth when the untrustworthy take turns
Falsely and overwhelmingly and minimally

7. Obscenely and the most chaste when she is assaulted
With merit and who expends the most clouds and rain

8. The best after Muhammad, no human resembles him
Considered from all the cream of creation