كلُّ الورى هَدَفٌ لِسهم حِمام
حُكْمٌ جرى حتى على الحكّام
All existence is the target of fate's arrow,
A decree that has run its course even on rulers.
كيف الدّوام وكلّ شيء هالك
لِنَزِيلِ دارٍ غَيْرِ ذات دوام
How can permanence be when all things perish,
For a dweller in an abode that is without permanence?
فاعْمَلْ لنفسك صالحاً تلقاه إِذْ
يصحو الورى من سكرهم بمنام
So do good for yourself that you may find
When people awake from their slumber of heedlessness.
وانفض يداً من هذه الدّار التي
سَحَرَتْ بأحلامٍ ذوي الأحلام
And shake off your hands from this house which
Has enchanted with dreams those lost in dreams.
وهي التي وعظت وحسبُك واعظا
مَوْتُ العلوم ونُقْلَةُ الأعلام
It is the house that admonished you, and admonition suffices you,
The death of knowledge and the displacement of signs.
انظر إلى هذا الضّريح وما حَوَى
من عَالِمٍ عَلَمٍ وبَحْرٍ طامي
Look at this tomb and what it contains
Of a knowing scholar and an overflowing sea.
بَحْرٌ من التّحقيق قلّد دُرَّه
نحرَ الطّروس أنامل الأقلام
An ocean of verification whose pearls
Were threaded by the necks of cranes of pens.
كنز من التّدقيق كم حَلْيٍ به
من دمية الإِفتاء والأحكام
A treasure of precision - how much fine jewelry in it
Of figurines of jurisprudence and judgments.
هذا الإِمام حُسَيْنٌ العَلَمُ الذي
نظم التُّقَى والعلمَ أيّ نظام
This imam Hussein, the flag of knowledge that
Ordered piety and knowledge - what system!
يا مجمَعَ البَحْرَيْنِ يا برنازُ مَنْ
أبقيت نوراً في دُجى الإِظلام
O gathering of two seas! O burnoose of one
Who left a light in the darkness of ignorance!
قد كنتَ مصباحَ الهُدَى وصباحَه
وجمالَ وجه محافلِ الأيّام
You were the lamp of guidance and its morning
And the beauty of the face of the days' assemblies.
إن غِبْتَ عن نظر العيون فلم تزل
بين الجوانح في أعزّ مقام
If you are absent from the eyes' sight, still
You remain among the hearts in the most precious place.
يَهْنِيك ما خلّفتَ من شكرٍ وما
قدَّمْتَه ذُخراً لِنَيْلِ مَرَامِ
May you be congratulated for what you left of gratitude and what
You presented as provision for attaining hopes.
لا غرو أن يجد المُنى فضلاً وفي
تاريخه حصل الهنا بختام
No wonder that death may find virtue, and in
Its date this felicity reached its conclusion.
