1. طَوى موتُكَ اثنين: المروءةَ، والنَّدى

    وأبكى فريقين: الأحبَّةَ، والعِدَا!!

    Your death swept away two: chivalry and generosity,

    And made two camps weep: loved ones and foes!

  2. وعَطَّلَ للفصحى يراعًا، ومنبرًا

    وقوَّضَ للإِسلام صرحًا مُمرَّدَا

    And stilled a reed pen and a pulpit of classical Arabic,

    And razed a lofty, polished edifice of Islam.

  3. تباركت ربِّي! من لدين محمدٍ؟

    أيصبحُ في الدنيا غريبًا كما بدا؟

    Blessed are You, my Lord! Who will stand for Muhammad's faith?

    Will it become a stranger in the world, as it was at first?

  4. سرى في حواشِي الليل نعيُك جمرةً

    فأوشَكَ فحمُ الليل أن يَتَوقَّدا

    News of your death traveled through night's fringes as an ember,

    So night's charcoal nearly burst into flame.

  5. تساقط همسًا من شفاه رُواته

    فأبرَقَ ما بين الضلوع وأرعَدا

    It fell in whispers from the lips of those who told it,

    Then flashed and thundered between the ribs.

  6. وهزَّ ربُوعَ الشَّرق، حتى تساءلَت

    مِن الهَول: هل يومُ الإمام تجدَّدَا؟

    And shook the lands of the East, until they asked

    In terror: has the Imam's day returned?

  7. لقد كنتَ من هدى الإمام بقيَّةً

    فلما فقدناها، فقدنا محمدًا

    You were a remnant of the Imam's guidance;

    And when we lost it, we lost Muhammad.

  8. هل الأزهرُ المعمورُ يعرفُ من نعى

    وأيَّ سيوفِ اللهِ في التُّربِ أَغمَدا؟

    Does flourishing al-Azhar know whom it has mourned,

    And which of God's swords it has sheathed in the dust?

  9. لقد كنتَ سيفًا لا يُفل بكفِّه

    وقد تِظلمُ الكَفُّ الحسامَ المَهنَّدا

    You were a sword unblunted in its hand,

    Yet the hand may wrong the Indian-forged blade.

  10. وكنتَ حريًّا أن تشُقَّ لأهله

    سبيلَ العُلاَ، لو كان أَمهلَكَ الردى

    You were worthy to open for its people

    The path to greatness, had death allowed you time.

  11. أتيتَ طبيبًا آسيًا لجراحه

    فوالله، ما قصَّرتَ، بل قَصُرَ المَدى

    You came as a physician, healing its wounds;

    By God, you did not fall short; the time itself was short.

  12. تَولَّيْتَهُ حينًا، فلم تجن مغنمًا

    معاذَ العُلاَ بل كنت تَشقَى ليَسعدا

    You governed it for a while, yet reaped no gain;

    Greatness forbid! Rather, you suffered so that it might prosper.

  13. رَأَى عهدك الميمون رؤيا سعيدةً

    ولكنها في الصَّحْوِ ما ذهبت سُدى

    Your blessed tenure witnessed a happy dream,

    But in waking life it did not go to waste.

  14. لئِن كان في الحُسبان عهدُكَ لمحةً

    لقد كان في الإصلاح عهدُك سرمدا

    Though in reckoning your tenure was a moment,

    In reform, your tenure was indeed an eternity.

  15. تركت مكانًا لا يُسدُّ فراغُه

    وخلَّفتَ مَن يَسعى وراءَكُ مُجهَدا

    You left a place whose void cannot be filled,

    And left whoever follows you striving in exhaustion.

  16. طَهُرتَ فأعرى طهرُكَ المحضُ معشرًا

    وولَّدَ في بعض النفوس التمرُّدا

    You were pure; your unalloyed purity laid a company of men bare,

    And stirred rebellion in some souls.

  17. وكنتَ مثالَ الزُّهد لا عن خصاصةٍ

    إذا خرَّ بعضُ الناس للمال سُجَّدا

    You embodied renunciation, not out of poverty,

    While some people fell prostrate before wealth.

  18. إذا عَصَم اللؤمُ اللئيمَ من الأَذى

    فقد كنتَ من هذا السلاح مجردَّا

    If baseness shields the base from harm,

    Then you were bereft of this weapon.

  19. رفعتَ لواءَ الشَّرقِ في الغرب، واكتسى

    بك المظهرُ الشَّرقُي عزًّا وسُؤدُدا

    You raised the East's banner in the West, and

    Through you, Eastern bearing was clothed in honor and distinction.

  20. وزَانَكَ ثوبٌ زانهُ النُّبلُ، والتُّقى

    فلُحمَتهُ هذا، وذاكَ له سدى

    A robe adorned you, itself adorned by nobility and piety;

    This was its weft, and that its warp.

  21. لقد غَّض من شأن العمامةِ معشرٌ

    فَشِدتَ لها بين السماكين مقعدا

    Some had diminished the turban's standing;

    You built it a seat between the two Simak stars.

  22. بكى النيلُ نيلاً كان في مثل طهره

    ولكنه أصفى وأنقعَ للصَّدى

    The Nile wept for a Nile as pure as itself,

    Yet purer, and more thirst-quenching.

  23. خضمٌ من العرفان غاض مَعينُهُ

    وكنزٌ بأيدي المُعوزين تبدَّدَا

    An ocean of learning whose wellspring has run dry,

    And a treasure in the hands of the needy, now scattered.

  24. لئن أسرَ الأحرارَ حُسنُ صنيعه

    فكم أطلقَ الرأيَ الأسيرَ المَقَّيدا

    Though his gracious deeds held free men captive,

    How often he freed captive, fettered thought!

  25. فتًى حرَّرَ الإسلامَ من رِقَّ معشرٍ

    يَرون الجريءَ الحرَّ ليس مُوحِّدا

    A noble man who freed Islam from the bondage of people

    Who deem a bold, free man no believer in God's oneness.

  26. قضى واجب الأوطان والدين كاملاً

    وأصدر في كلِّ الأمور وأورَدَا

    He fulfilled the duty of homelands and religion completely,

    And guided every affair, leading forth and leading in.

  27. ولم يقض في ظلِّ الصوامع عيشهُ

    قعيدًا، وليس المسلمُ الحقُّ قُعددا

    Nor did he spend his life in the shade of hermitages,

    Sitting idle: the true Muslim is no idler.

  28. رَأى العلمُ فيه فيلسوفًا، وما رأَى

    به الدينُ إلا قانتًا مُتعبِّدا

    Learning saw in him a philosopher, while

    Religion saw in him only a devout worshipper.

  29. فقُل للتُّفاةِ الجامدين: رويدَكم

    متى كانت التَّقوى صلاةً ومسجدا؟

    So tell the shallow, rigid men: not so fast!

    When was piety merely prayer and a mosque?

  30. وما كلُّ من يغشى المعابد مؤمنًا

    ولا كلُّ من يستَخدمُ العقلَ مُلحدا

    Not everyone who frequents places of worship is a believer,

    Nor is everyone who uses reason an atheist.

  31. حملنَا على الأعناق بالأمس نعشهُ

    وقد كاد يُزجيه زفيرٌ تصعَّدا!

    Yesterday we carried his bier upon our shoulders,

    And a rising sigh almost bore it onward!

  32. لكم ثَمَّ عينٌ سال كالعين ماؤها

    وكم ثَمَّ خذ بالدموع تَخدَّدا!

    How many an eye there shed water like a spring,

    And how many a cheek was furrowed by tears!

  33. وسار به ركبُ الفناءِ، ومن يسر

    به الرَّكبُ في تلك المجاهل أبعدا

    The caravan of mortality bore him onward; whoever is borne

    By that caravan into those unknown wastes goes far away.

  34. وحَطُّوا على جسر المنيَّة رَحلةُ

    ومالوا به بُرجًا منيعًا مُشيَّدًا

    They set down his pack upon the bridge of death,

    And lowered with him a mighty, lofty tower.

  35. فخلتُ فؤادي كفَّ عن خفقانه

    وخلتُ دمي بين العُروق تجمَّدا

    I thought my heart had ceased its beating,

    And thought my blood had frozen within my veins.

  36. هنالِك أحسَسْتُ الفراقَ وهولَه

    وقدَّستُ ربًّا بالبقاء تفردَّا

    There I felt separation and its terror,

    And hallowed the Lord who alone endures.

  37. فيا ضيعةَ الآمالِ من بعدِ مصطفى!

    لقد كان للآمال في مصرَ معقدا

    Oh, the loss of hopes after Mustafa!

    He had been the rallying point of hopes in Egypt.

  38. فتى ما أوته بل أواها مناصبٌ

    تقلَّدَ من عليائها ما تقلَّدا

    A man whom offices never sheltered; rather, he sheltered them—

    Whatever high rank among them he assumed.

  39. إذا اتَّخذ الناس المناصبَ متجرًا

    فما اقتات منها قوتَ يومٍ ولا ارتَدَى

    When people turned offices into a business,

    He took from them neither a day's food nor clothing.

  40. سلوا سَاسةَ الوادي: أما كان مصطفى

    أعفَّهُمو نفسًا، وأنزهَهُم يدا؟

    Ask the valley's statesmen: was Mustafa not

    The purest of them in soul, the most untainted of hand?

  41. هو الجبل الراسي؛ حجًا، ورزانةً

    إذا الحادثُ الطاغي أقام وأقعدا

    He is the firmly rooted mountain, in wisdom and composure,

    When a raging calamity throws everyone into turmoil.

  42. تَزلُّ مياهُ البحر عن جَنَباتهِ

    إذا البحر في الأنواء أرغَى وأزبدا

    The sea's waters slip away from his sides

    When the sea, in storms, froths and foams.

  43. صموتٌ، إذا ما الصمتُ كان بلاغةً

    فإن قال، راشَ القولَ سهمًا مسدَّدا

    Silent when silence itself is eloquence;

    But when he speaks, he fletches his words into a well-aimed arrow.

  44. وينفذ مثلَ النَّصل فيما يُريده

    وإن كان غُصنًا في الوداعةِ أملَدا

    And he cuts like a blade toward his purpose,

    Though in gentleness he is a supple bough.

  45. طليقٌ محيَّاهُ يزيدُ بشاشةً

    إذا الأفْقُ بالغيم الكثيف تَلَبَّدا

    His face is open, growing still more cheerful

    When the horizon is overcast with dense clouds.

  46. تحَدَّى العصامِّيين؛ عزمًا، وهمَّةً

    وِبذَّ العظاميِّين؛ أصلاً، ومَحتِدا

    He challenged self-made men in resolve and ambition,

    And surpassed men of inherited nobility in lineage and ancestry.

  47. نمتهُ أصولٌ لو نمى النجمَ بعضُها

    لحرَّكَ عِطفَيه من التِّيهِ إن بدا

    He sprang from roots that, had some of them nurtured a star,

    It would have swayed its flanks in pride upon appearing.

  48. وربَّاه بيتٌ يخدمُ الناسَ شيخهُ

    وإن كان فيه الطِّفلُ يولدُ سيِّدا

    He was raised in a house whose elder serves the people,

    Though even its child is born a master.

  49. على البرِّ والتقوى تأسّسَ ركنُهُ

    ومن لبنات العلمِ والدين شُيِّدا

    Its foundation was laid upon righteousness and piety,

    And it was built from the bricks of learning and religion.

  50. نما زَهرُ الآداب حولَ سياجه

    وصاحَ به طيرُ البيان مُغرِّدا

    The flowers of letters grew around its fence,

    And the bird of eloquence called there in song.

  51. وطابت ثمارُ الفكرِ في ظلِّ روضه

    وأُنشدَ فيه الشعرُ درًّا منضَّدا

    The fruits of thought ripened in its garden's shade,

    And poetry was recited there as pearls strung in order.

  52. تُشاهدُ فيه الشافعيَّ، ومالكًا

    وتلقى ابنَ عبَّاد به، والمُبَرِّدا

    There you see al-Shafi‘i and Malik,

    And meet Ibn ‘Abbad and al-Mubarrid.

  53. فَلِلعلم فيه سامرٌ أيُّ سامرٍ

    وللأدبِ العالي هنالك مُنتدى

    There learning has its evening circle—what a circle!

    And lofty literature has a forum there.

  54. ولما دعت مصرُ، اشرأبَت قبابُهُ

    وكادَت مغانيه تصيخُ إلى الندا

    When Egypt called, its domes craned upward,

    And its halls almost strained to hear the call.

  55. ودقِّت بيمناها القضيَّةُ بابهُ

    فقدَّم من حرِّ الدماء لها الفدا

    The cause knocked at its door with her right hand,

    So it offered her its purest blood in sacrifice.

  56. بنت مصرُ بيتَ الرازقيِّين قلعةً

    ورَّبَّت بنيه للكتائبِ قُوَّدا

    Egypt built the house of the Raziq family into a fortress,

    And raised its sons as commanders of battalions.

  57. يُلقِّنُ فتيان الحمى خدمةَ الحمى

    ويغشاه طلاَّبُ المبادئ معهدا

    It teaches the homeland's youths to serve the homeland,

    And seekers of principles frequent it as a school.

  58. إمامَ الهدى، أدَّيتَ لله حقَّهُ

    وخلَّفت للساري طريقًا مُعبَّدا

    Imam of guidance, you have rendered God His due,

    And left the night traveler a paved road.

  59. صحائفُ مجدٍ تيَّم الزَّهر نفحها

    وسار على مِشكاتها النجمُ؛ فاهتدى

    Pages of glory whose fragrance enraptured the flowers,

    And the star traveled by their niche's light and found its way.

  60. لعمري، لوَ أن الموتَ أبقى علي

    لبيضِ أياديه، لعشتَ مُخلَّدا

    By my life, if death ever spared a man

    For his shining deeds, you would have lived forever.

  61. عهدتُكَ تهفو للقريض؛ فهاكَهُ

    وهل يسمع النَّائي المحجَّبُ مُنشدا؟

    I knew you to yearn for verse; here it is for you—

    But can one far away and veiled hear a reciter?

  62. عليك سلامُ الله من مُتَرَحِّل

    قضى ما شكا داءً، ولا راعَ عُوَّدا

    God's peace be upon you, departed traveler,

    Who died without complaining of illness or alarming his sickbed visitors.

  63. مشى، ورسولُ الموت يحسبُ خطوهُ

    وأَومَا، يُحيِّي أهلَهُ، فتشهَّدا

    He walked, while death's messenger counted his steps,

    And gestured a greeting to his family, then professed the faith.

  64. وما بارح الأسماعَ وقعُ حديثه

    فكيف به أمسى حديثًا مردَّدا؟

    His speech still echoes in our ears—

    How, then, has he become a tale retold?

  65. كذلك يقضي الرازقيُّون نحبهم

    نجومٌ تهاوى؛ فرقدًا، ثم فرقدا

    Thus the Raziq family meet their appointed end:

    Stars falling—one Farqad, then another.

  66. لحا الله دنيا يصبحُ المرءُ آمنًا

    أَذاها، ويُمسي في الضريح مُوسَّدا

    May God curse a world where a man wakes safe

    From its harm, yet by evening lies pillowed in the tomb.

  67. وما الحمقُ إلا أن تفكِّر في غدٍ

    وأنتَ رهينُ الموتِ؛ لا تَضَمنُ الغدا!

    What is folly but to think of tomorrow

    While you are death's hostage, with no assurance of tomorrow?