1. مصابٌ لا يشابهه مصاب

    ودمعٌ لا يجاريه السحاب

    A calamity that no other calamity resembles,

    And tears that the clouds cannot rival,

  2. واجفان تغشاها سهاد

    واحشاء تحشاها التهاب

    And eyelids veiled by sleeplessness,

    And entrails filled with burning,

  3. ومفجوع على الاحباب باك

    اضر به سقام واكتئاب

    And one bereaved, weeping for loved ones,

    Whom sickness and despondency have afflicted.

  4. عن المنى فلا بالناي يلهو

    ولا تلهيه زينب والرباب

    Away from hopes, he finds no diversion in the flute,

    Nor do Zaynab and al-Rabab divert him.

  5. فقدتك حافظ الدين المفدى

    كما للسيف قد فقد القراب

    I have lost you, dearly cherished Hafiz al-Din,

    As a sword has lost its scabbard.

  6. وكنت حسبت ان الدهر يصفو

    فخاب الظن وانخرم الحساب

    And I had thought that time would grow serene,

    But expectation failed, and the reckoning unraveled.

  7. وغبتم يا اسوداً عن حماكم

    فيا للّه ما للأسد غابوا

    And you have departed, O lions, from your domain.

    So, O God, why have the lions vanished?

  8. فحالي بعدكم حال عجيب

    وصبري عنكم شيء عجاب

    So my state after you is a strange one,

    And my patience without you is an astonishing thing.