Sol 6.1

  1. أروح وفي القلب مني شجن

    واغدوو في القلب مني إحن

    I go at evening, and sorrow lies in my heart;

    And I go at dawn, and rancor lies in my heart.

  2. ولم يشجني فقد عيش الشباب

    وليل الصبا ولذيذ الوسن

    Nor did the loss of youthful living grieve me,

    Nor youth's nights, nor sweet slumber.

  3. ولا هاجني منزل بالحمى

    ولا ذكر غانية أو أغن

    Nor did a dwelling in the protected lands stir me,

    Nor mention of a beautiful woman or a sweet-voiced one.

  4. ولكن شجتني صروف الزمان

    بأهل الرشاد ولاة الزمن

    But time's vicissitudes grieved me,

    As they struck the rightly guided, the rulers of the age.

  5. بموسى الكليم بدت بالردى

    وكم فيه رد الردى والمحن

    They appeared as death upon Musa al-Kalim,

    And how often through him were death and ordeals repelled!

  6. وثنت بمن لم يكن غيره

    إماماً لدنيا يقيم السنن

    And next they struck one besides whom none was

    An imam for the world, upholding the traditions.

  7. فاخنى الزمان بنجل الرضا

    والبسني منه ثوب الحزن

    So time laid low the son of al-Rida,

    And clothed me, because of him, in sorrow's robe.

  8. وناعيه لما نعاه إلي

    أذاب الفؤاد وافنى البدن

    And the herald of his death, when he announced it to me,

    Melted my heart and wasted my body.

  9. نعى العالم الهاشمي التقي

    نعى من له الفضل في كل فن

    He announced the death of the pious Hashimite scholar;

    He announced the death of one preeminent in every discipline.

  10. فلا غرو أن بكت المكرمات

    بدمع جرى فيضه للقنن

    No wonder, then, that noble virtues wept

    With tears whose flood flowed to the peaks,

  11. على من سرى ذكره في البلاد

    وشاع بذكر جميل حسن

    For one whose fame spread through the lands

    And was celebrated with beautiful, gracious praise.

  12. فيا طود فضل هوى في الثرى

    وغيب في بطنه أو بطن

    O mountain of merit, fallen into the dust,

    And hidden in its belly, or in a hollow.

  13. ويا راحلاً عن ديار الغرور

    لتجزى بذلك من ذي المنن

    And O you who departed from the abodes of delusion,

    To be rewarded for that by the Bestower of favors.

  14. نصبت الهدى ونشرت العلوم

    وغيب لفقدك كل حزن

    You established guidance and spread the sciences,

    And every grieving soul was overcome by your loss,

  15. ولا سيما الندب فرد الزمان

    خدين المعالي بهذا الزمن

    Above all, the noble man, peerless in his age,

    Intimate companion of lofty virtues in this time,

  16. وحيد الفضائل في عصره

    ورب التقى والحجى والفطن

    Unmatched in virtues in his age,

    And master of piety, wisdom, and discernment,

  17. حميد الفعال كريم الطباع

    له الفضل في سر أو في علن

    Praiseworthy in deeds, noble in character,

    His is excellence, in private or in public,

  18. وعلامة الدهر هادي الأنام

    لسبل الرشاد محمد حسن

    And the age's great scholar, guide of humankind

    To the paths of right guidance—Muhammad Hasan.

  19. أقام عزاء سليل النبي

    وأفضل من من من غير من

    He held mourning rites for the Prophet's descendant,

    And the finest of those who bestowed without reproach,

  20. لفاتحة في عزاه تفوق

    كما فاق فينا على كل فن

    For a Fatiha gathering at his mourning that excels,

    Just as he excelled among us in every discipline.

  21. وان ابا حسن قد مضى

    لخلد الجنان وفيها سكن

    And indeed Abu Hasan has departed

    To everlasting Paradise, and has made his home there.

  22. فصبراً بنيه وارحامه

    فصبر الفتى ماله من ثمن

    Have patience, then, O his sons and kin;

    For a man's patience is beyond price.

  23. ولا زال يغشى ضريحاً حواه

    سلام من اللَه ما الليل جن

    And may the tomb that holds him always be enveloped

    In peace from God, as long as night casts its veil.