1. عِشْ ما تشاءُ لذاذةً وحبورا

    إنّ القصورَ ستسحيلُ قُبورا

    Live as long as you wish in pleasure and delight;

    Surely palaces will turn into graves.

  2. يا غافلاً لم ينتبه لِمُذَكِّرٍ

    أَفَما كفى داعي المنونِ نَذيرا

    O heedless one, who has not heeded an admonisher,

    Has death’s herald not been warning enough?

  3. كم من رفيع في أَسِرَّةِ عِزِّهِ

    خفضوه في ذلّ التّراب أسيرا

    How many a man exalted on the couches of his glory

    Have they lowered, captive, into the abasement of dust!

  4. وَبِمَوْتِ أهل العلم أبلغُ واعظ

    يهدي إلى كون الحياة مرورا

    And in the death of the learned is the most eloquent preacher,

    Who shows that life is but a passage.

  5. وبها اعْتَبِرْ فضريحُ أحمدكم طُوِي

    بِمُغَيَّبٍ في طَيِّهِ منشورا

    And take heed from it, for your Ahmad’s tomb was folded shut

    Around one concealed, lying outspread within its fold.

  6. غَرَبَتْ لِبَارُودِيِّهِنّ محاسن

    يا طالما أَشْرَقْنَ فيه بدروا

    Graces have set with their Barudi—

    Ah, how long they shone in him as full moons!

  7. قد كان في وجه المحافل غُرَّةً

    وعلى المنابر قُسَّها المشهورا

    He was a bright blaze on the brow of assemblies,

    And on the pulpits, their celebrated Quss.

  8. ولطالما قَرَعَتْ زواجرُ وَعظِهِ

    صُمًّا وماذا قد شرحن صدورا

    And how often the stern warnings of his preaching struck

    Deaf ears—and how many bosoms they opened!

  9. أمّا إذا يتلو الكتاب فإنّه

    يهدي لأَِمْوَاتِ القلوبِ نشورا

    But when he recites the Book, he

    Bestows resurrection upon dead hearts.

  10. عَظُمَ المُصابُ به وأحرى مذهب ال

    نُّعمانِ إِذْ لهُدَاهُ كان نصيرا

    Great is the loss of him, most especially to the school of

    Al-Nu‘man, for he was a champion of its guidance.

  11. ركدت رياح زئيره فكأنّه

    ما كان ليثاً في الرّجال هَصورا

    The winds of his roar have fallen still, as though he

    Had never been a mighty lion among men.

  12. إنْ يَمْضِ فهو سبيلنا وَمَنِ الذي

    كَتَبَتْ له يُمْنَى الخلود ظهيرا

    If he departs, that is our road too; and who is there

    For whom immortality’s right hand has written a charter?

  13. لبّى المُنَادِيَ واستجاب لربّه

    يرجو رضاه وفَضْلَهُ الموفورا

    He answered the caller and responded to his Lord,

    Hoping for His pleasure and His abundant bounty.

  14. يا رَبِّ حَقِّقْ فيه قَوْلَ مؤرّخ

    ألقاه وجهك نضرة وسرورا

    O Lord, fulfill in him the chronogram-writer’s words:

    Your countenance granted him radiance and joy.