يَا نَاظِرَ المَوتى بِعَينٍ بَاكِيةْ
اترُكْ دُمُوعَكَ فَوقَ خَدكَ جَارِيَهْ
O you who gaze upon the dead with a weeping eye,
Let your tears run freely down your cheek.
هَذا الضَّرِيحُ لِبنتِ يُوسُفَ فَافَةَ
ذَات الحَيَا وَالهِمَّةِ المُتَعَالِيَهْ
This is the tomb of Fāfa, Yusuf’s daughter,
A woman of modesty and exalted aspiration.
وَمُحَمدٌ باي الكرِيمُ المُرتَضَى
جَدُّ لَهَا فَلَهَا الأسَامِي الغَالِيهْ
And Muhammad Bey, the noble, the chosen,
Was her grandfather; hence the names she bears are precious.
فَاطلُبْ لَهَا مِن ذِي المَوَاهِبِ رَحمةً
تَمْحُو الإسَاءَةَ وَالعُيوبَ المَاضِيهْ
So beseech the Giver of gifts to show her mercy
That will efface wrongdoing and former faults.
فَاللهُ أكرَمُ أنْ يُخُيِّبَ دَاعِياً
لأخِيهِ فِي هّذي القُبُورِ البَالِيهْ
For God is too generous to turn away a supplicant
Who prays for his brother among these crumbling graves.
فَلَعَلَهُ يبنِي لَهَا مِنْ فَضلِهِ
بَيتَ السعَادَةِ فِي القُصُورِ العَالِيَهْ
Perhaps, out of His bounty, He will build for her
A house of bliss among the lofty palaces.
وَكَذاكَ زَودْهَا الدعاءَ مؤرّخاً
يَا رَبّ أسكِنهَا فَسٍيحَ العَافِيهْ
And likewise, furnish her with this prayer as a chronogram:
O Lord, lodge her in the spacious realm of well-being.
Sol 5.6