مُقَلٌ في دُجى العَرورِ نِيامُ

وَحَياةٌ جَميعُها أَحلامُ

Drowsy in the gloom of nights, slumbering,

And life entirely a dream,

كُلُّ عَينٍ تَحتَ الظَلامِ وَلَكن

بَدَّلَ الحلمُ ما أَجنَّ الظَلامُ

Every eye in the darkness, yet

Dreams have changed what darkness wrought.

رَقدةٌ طالَ عَهدُها فَتَلَتها

رَقدةٌ لَم يَكُن يَليها اِنصِرامُ

A sleep whose age was prolonged that ended it

A sleep that had no ending after it,

هام كُلٌّ بِعَيشِهِ وَالمَنايا

راصِداتٌ حَولَ النُفوسِ قِيامُ

Each busied with their life while death

Stands guard around souls awake.

قَصُرَ العُمرُ تَحتَ طُولِ رَجاءٍ

شَرَدَت في مَجالِهِ الأَوهامُ

Life was cut short under length of hope,

Imaginations strayed in its expanse.

لَو أَرادَ الفَتى قَضاءَ أَماني

هِ لَضاقَت مِن دونِها الأَيَّامُ

Had the youth wanted to fulfill his wishes,

Days would have been too narrow for it.

كُلُّ يَومٍ تَعِلَّةٌ شابها الشَّكْ

كُ وَما لا يُشكُّ فيهِ الحِمامُ

Each day a renewed pretext that resembled doubt,

What pigeons have no doubt in.

تَحتَ هَذا الرُّغامِ مِنهُ رِجالٌ

وَعَلَيهِ مِن رِجالٍ رغامُ

Under this soil some men lie

While over it men's soil lie.

وَاِستَوى المَيتُ وَالتُرابُ وَبَين ال

مَيتِ وَالحَيِّ نسبةٌ وَالتِئامُ

The dead leveled with dust, and between

The dead and alive a connection and pact.

أَيُّها الراحلُ الَّذي سارَ عَنَّا

نَحوَ عَرشٍ قَد طابَ فيهِ المُقامُ

O you who left from us

To a dominion made good for stay

وَتَوارى بِالجسمِ في ظلِّ لَحدٍ

نَحلت بَعَد مَن بِهِ الأَجسامُ

And the body was concealed in shade of a grave

You gained after what bodies contest.

إِن فيهِ حبَّ القُلوب فَهَل تَن

بِتُه فَوقك الدُموعُ السِجامُ

In it lies hearts' love. Do tears

Still spill over you, you honorable one?

يا لَكَ اللَهُ ما أَثَرتَ مِن الحُز

ن وَفي المَوت وِردُ ما لا يُرامُ

O how you have left a trace of sadness,

And in death lies what is not hoped for.

لا رَعى اللَهُ لَيلةً بِكَ أَودَت

فَاِكتَسَت مِن سَوادِها الأَقوامُ

God did not watch a night against you that

Made communities don its darkness.

قَد رَمى قَلبَكَ الحِمامُ بِسَهمٍ

كَثُرَت مِنهُ في القُلوبِ الكُلومُ

Your heart was struck by an arrow from love

Causing many a heart to have adhesions.

فَتَرَكَتَ الحَياةَ طَوعاً وَلَم يش

غَلْكَ قَبلاً بِها حُسناً مُستَهامُ

So you freely left life and no

Passion for it possessed you before.

لَم تَزَل ناظِراً إَلَيها بِعَينٍ

هِيَ في جَفنِها قَذىً وَسَقامُ

You continued looking at it with an eye

In whose eyelid were specks and sickness.

وَتَرَحَّلتَ نَحوَ رَبِّكَ تَبغِي

عِندَهُ الخُلدَ وَالحَياةُ لِمامُ

And you journeyed to your Lord, seeking

Near Him eternity, and life is perfected.

ما تَفِي بَعدَكَ الشُجونُ وَلَكن

تِلكَ مِما اِقتَضى الهَوى وَالذِّمامُ

No grief remains after you, but

That is what love and infatuation required.

غَلَّ مِنكَ الرَّدى بَناناً نَضاهُ ال

بِرُّ قَبلاً وَالمُكرَماتُ العِظامُ

Loss took away a gentle, pure youth,

Honored before in favors and nobilities.

وَعَلا ذاتِكَ الكَريمةُ تُربٌ

قَد عَلاهُ الإِجلالُ وَالإكرامُ

Your noble self transcended dust

Elevated by reverence and honor.

فَعَلى قَبرِكَ السَحائبُ تَجري

وَعَلى نَفسِكَ الرِضى وَالسَلامُ

So over your grave clouds flow,

And over your soul satisfaction and peace.