1. تُوُفِّىَ بحرُ الجودِ والزهدِ والتقى

    ونورُ دياجينا علىُّ بن سالم

    The sea of generosity, asceticism, and piety has died,

    And the light of our dark nights, Ali ibn Salim,

  2. فتى خَلفِ الندبِ الهمام من الذي

    وقاهُ إلهُ العرشِ شرَّ المظالمِ

    A scion of noble, valiant Khalaf—one whom

    The God of the Throne shielded from the evil of injustices.

  3. تألم من فقدانِه ووَفَاتِه

    جميعُ البرايا مِن جَهُول وعَالمِ

    His loss and his death brought grief

    To all creation, ignorant and learned alike.

  4. لقد كانَ فينَا للمُقِلِّتين مورداً

    وإحسانهُ قد عمَّ كلَّ المَعَالمِ

    Indeed, among us he was a wellspring for both eyes,

    And his beneficence had reached every place.

  5. ولكنْ قضاءُ اللهِ ما عنه مهربٌ

    فَمنْ منهُ مِن أحيائنا غيرُ سَالمِ

    Yet there is no escape from God's decree,

    For none of us living is safe from it.

  6. وفي شهر شعبان توافتْ وفاتُه

    بتدبيرِ خلاَّقِ البريةِ حاكمِ

    And in the month of Sha'ban his death came,

    By the ordering of the Creator of all creatures, the Ruler.

  7. مضتْ أربعٌ والعشرُ مع مائةٍ خَلَتْ

    وألفٌ تولى عدَّه كلُّ نَاظِمِ

    Four and ten had passed, with a hundred gone by,

    And a thousand, whose reckoning every poet undertook,

  8. بعصرِ إمامِ المسلمين وليِّنا

    هو الشهم مولى عُرْبِها والأعاجِمِ

    In the age of the Imam of the Muslims, our guardian.

    He is the noble-hearted lord of its Arabs and non-Arabs.

  9. هُوَ العدلُ سيف نجل سلطان سيفنا

    فتى مالك أهلُ الندى والمكارِمِ

    He is justice itself—Sayf, son of Sultan, our sword,

    A scion of Malik, a man of generosity and noble deeds.

  10. وناظمُ هذا المعولىُّ محمدٌ

    سلالةُ عبدِ اللهِ نجل المُسَالمِ

    And the composer of this is Muhammad al-Ma'wali,

    A descendant of Abdullah, son of al-Musalim.

  11. ويومَئذٍ فهُو ابن سبعين حجةً

    وعشرٌ توافتْ في المدَى المُتَقَادِمِ

    And on that day he was seventy years old,

    And ten more had elapsed in the long stretch of time.

  12. وصلِّ على خيرِ الأنام محمدِ

    نبيِّ الهدَى الزاكِي سليلِ الضراغِمِ

    And send blessings upon the best of humankind, Muhammad,

    The pure prophet of guidance, scion of lions.