بدور الحُسن تغرُب في القبور

ونار الحزن تُشرق في الصدور

Full moons of beauty set within the graves,

while sorrow’s fire rises in the breasts.

وصفو العيش كدّره زمان

وعوّضني اكتئابي عن سرور

Time has troubled life’s serenity

and given me melancholy in place of joy.

ونور الكون من حُزني ظلام

يغيّبه بدر أفراحي المُنير

Through grief, the light of all the world is darkness,

eclipsed by the radiant full moon of my joys.

لقد أمسى التراب له وساداً

وذا من بَعد توسيد الحرير

The dust has now become his pillow,

and this after being pillowed upon silk.

له أبلى الثرى قدّاً وسيماً

وشتّت بالبلى شَملَ السرور

The earth has worn his graceful figure away,

and decay has scattered joy’s whole company.

وأفرده القضاء عن الأهالي

وأسكنه قبوراً بعد دور

Fate has parted him from family

and lodged him in graves after homes.

ولكن قد دنا من عفو ربّ

عفو راحم بَرّ غفور

Yet he has drawn near to the pardon of a Lord—

the pardon of One compassionate, beneficent, forgiving.

سيُنزله برحمته جناناً

ويُسكنه بها أعلى قصور

Through His mercy, He will lodge him in gardens

and settle him there in the highest palaces.

ويُبدله من الأهلين خيراً

ويُؤنسه بولدان وحُور

He will give him better companions in place of his kin

and comfort him with immortal youths and houris.

فيا دمعي بعيني كُن مُعيني

ويا صبري على ذا كُن نصيري

O tears within my eyes, be my aid;

O patience in this trial, be my support.

عسى بالدمع تُطفا نار حُزن

وألقى العون من قلبي الصبور

Perhaps tears may quench the fire of grief,

and I may find help in my patient heart.

أعان اله أهليه بصبر

وأكرمهم بتعظيم الأجور

May God sustain his family with patience

and honor them with abundant rewards;

كذلك مَن حوته الدار ممن

يلوذ به صغيراً مع كبير

likewise, all whom the household embraced, among those

who sought refuge in him, both young and old.

ومَن يجمعهنّ من بعد هذا

بدار الخُلد في يوم النشور

And may He gather them, after this,

in the eternal abode on Resurrection Day,

وآمنهم من الأهوال فيه

بجاه المصطفى الهادي البشير

and keep them safe from its terrors

through the honored standing of the Chosen One, the guiding bearer of glad tidings—

رسول اللَه خير الخلق مَن قد

أتانا بالكتاب المُستنير

the Messenger of God, the best of creation, who

brought us the illuminating Book.

عليه اللَه صلى كل وقت

وسلّم في الأصائل والبكور

May God bless him at every hour

and grant him peace at eventide and dawn.