1. أيها العادل دعني وبكائي

    أنت خلو من مصابي وبلائي

    O just one, leave me to my weeping.

    You are untouched by my calamity and my affliction.

  2. عد عني لا تلمني أبداً

    في رثائي لامام العلماء

    Turn away from me; never reproach me

    for my lament for the imam of the scholars.

  3. غاب شمس الدين فإذن

    نحن في ظلماء من بعد ضياء

    Shams al-Din has set; and so

    we are in darkness after light.

  4. غاب عنا بغتة فانقمعت

    لرداه نجباء النبهاء

    He departed from us suddenly; laid low

    by his death were the noble among the eminent.

  5. كان والله حنيفا مسلما

    مستقيماً من كبار الصلحاء

    He was, by God, upright in faith, a Muslim,

    upright, among the greatest of the righteous.

  6. يا له من عالم تاريخه

    مات بالقولنج نور النبلاء

    What a scholar he was! His chronogram:

    The light of the noble died of colic.