يا موت زُر فَحياتي لست ارضاها

بعد الاحبَّة اذ زُمَّت مَطاياها

O death, visit me, for I do not delight in life

After my loved ones, now that their abodes are desolate

ليت الاحبَّة اذ سارَت رَكائِبُها

تحمَّلتني فَلَم أَحمِل بَلاياها

If only my loved ones, when their mounts departed

Had taken me along, and I had not borne their tribulations

احبابَنا ما لَنا وَالعيشَ بعدكُم

فَلفظة العيش انتم جلُّ مَعناها

Our loved ones, what is life to us without you?

For the word 'life' - you are its full meaning

لَقَد فَقدنا لذيذ العيش بعدكمُ

وحبذا الروحُ ما لَو فقدناها

We have lost the sweetness of life after you

If only the soul had left us too

رحلتمُ فرأَينا الارض مُوحَشةً

كاننا في ديارٍ ما وطئناها

You left, and we saw the earth desolate

As if we were in lands we had never trod

وَلَم نَجد بعدكم في غيركم عوَضاً

عنكم فآهاً على ترحالكم آها

And found none after you as solace

Ah, for your departure - Ah!

واحسرتا ليست الدنيا بنافعةٍ

يا ليتها تركتنا او تركناها

Woe that the world is of no use

If only it had left us or we had left it

ضاقَت بنا وَعلينا وهي واسعةٌ

واقفرت بعدكم والناس تملاها

It narrowed on us while being vast

And was emptied after you though filled with people