1. عقبى الحياة لمثل هذا المنزلِ

    والناس عن تذكاره في معزلِ

    Life's final destination is an abode like this,

    Yet people remain aloof from remembering it.

  2. والسير في نُوَبِ الوجود مرتبٌ

    بدءُ الأخير نهايةٌ للأولِ

    And the course through existence's vicissitudes is ordered:

    The latter's beginning is the former's end.

  3. لو كان يبقى فاضل لم يجتذب

    عمر المنون وكان ذا قدرٍ علِ

    If a virtuous man could live on, death would not have claimed

    Umar, who was a man of lofty rank.

  4. من آل شركسَ حافظ لذماره

    كلِف بآيات الكتاب المنزلِ

    Of the house of Sharkas, guarding all he held sacred,

    Devoted to the verses of the revealed Book.

  5. ألوى عن الماضي عنان حياته

    وسرى مجدًّا بغيةَ المستقبلِ

    He turned the reins of his life away from the past,

    And journeyed by night, earnestly seeking the future,

  6. حتى أرتقى أعلى الفرادس وارتوى

    في ظلها من عذبِ هذا المنهلِ

    Until he ascended to the loftiest gardens of Paradise and drank his fill

    In their shade, from the sweet water of this spring.

  7. وتناشد الوِلدان في تاريخهِ

    عمرٌ له بالخلد أقوم منزلِ

    And the youths chanted to one another this chronogram for him:

    “Umar has in eternity the surest abode.”