1. لَن تُفنِيا خَيراتِ أَر

    بَدَ فَاِبكِيا حَتّى يَعودا

    You two will never exhaust Arbad's virtues;

    so weep until he returns.

  2. قولا هُوَ البَطَلُ المُحامي

    حينَ يُكسَونَ الحَديدا

    Say, you two: he is the champion, the defender,

    when they are clad in iron.

  3. وَيَصُدُّ عَنّا الظالِمينَ

    إِذا لَقينا القَومَ صيدا

    And he repels the aggressors from us

    when we meet the proud warriors.

  4. فَاِعتاقَهُ رَيبُ البَريَّ

    ةِ إِذ رَأى أَن لا خُلودا

    Then the calamities of mortal life held him back,

    when he saw that there was no immortality.

  5. فَثَوى وَلَم يوجَع وَلَم

    يوصَب وَكانَ هُوَ الفَقيدا

    So he lay dead, having neither suffered pain nor

    fallen ill; he was the one we lost.