أَجدّك هَذا مضجعُ الفخرِ والمجدِ

وَمَأوى الكمالِ الفردِ والسؤدد العدِّ

I find you here a place of pride and glory

And home to perfection rare and unmatched nobility

أَجدّكَ قد ضمّ التراب مكارماً

بِها عنقُ العلياءِ قَد كان ذا عقدِ

I find you, the dust has gathered virtues

With which the necks of the exalted were once adorned

أَجدّك يهوي البدرُ مِن أفقِ العلى

إِلى منزلٍ في الأرضِ دان على البعدِ

I find you, the full moon has plunged

From the horizon of Highness to an abode low in the earth

أَجدّكَ ما عاينتَ ليسَ توهُّماً

فَما في حياةٍ لأمري بعد من قصدِ

I find you, what you have witnessed is no illusion

So nothing in life for my matter remains after intent

أَلا فجّعتنا الحادثاتُ بِمَن بهِ

عَلى حادثاتِ الدهرِ نعدو وَنَستعدي

Alas! Events have saddened us with one whose like

Measured against the events of time, we count and prepare

فَقدناهُ فقدَ الشمسِ في ساعةِ الضّحى

وَفقد زلالٍ طابَ باليمن والرفدِ

We lost him, and lost the sun in the bright dawn

And lost a fresh stream, wholesome in Yemen and plenty

عَهِدناهُ نسراً لَيس تدركهُ الدلا

فَكيفَ حَوت أبراجهُ حضرة اللحدِ

We knew him an eagle, no snakes can reach

So how did his bier contain him in the mortuary?

وَكانَ سريعاً للصريخِ جوابهُ

فَما بالُهُ ما إن يعيد ولا يبدي

He was quick to answer the call

So why does he not repeat or initiate?

محمّدُ عبّاس غَدا الدهر عابساً

تَبدّلَ مِن بعد البشاشة ذا وجدِ

Muhammad Abbas, time has turned gloomy

Transformed after cheerfulness, now frowning

كَأن لَم تكُن تاجاً عَلى هامة العلى

وَلا غرّةً في جبهة العلم والزهدِ

As if you were not a crown on the forehead of Highness

Nor a gem on the brow of knowledge and devotion

كَأن لَم تَكن أعتاب بابك ملجأ

لأهلِ النهى والفضلِ في الحل والعقدِ

As if your doorstep were not refuge

For people of grace and merit in ease and hardship

كأن لَم تَكُن في مسندِ الدرسِ عائماً

وَأَلفاظكَ الأصداف للجوهر الفردِ

As if you were not floating in the seat of lesson

And your words pearls for the unique gem

كَأن لَم تكن في مَجلسِ الحكم صارماً

يصمّمُ في أغراضه ماضيَ الحدِّ

As if you were not harsh in the council of judgment

Resolute in your goals, exceeding limits

كَأن لَم يكُ التنزيل من فيكَ يَكتسي

غلائلَ مِن حسنِ الإبانَةِ والسردِ

As if revelation did not dress itself in you

With strains of excellent delivery and ordering

كَأن لَم تَكن فوقَ المنابرِ قارعاً

قُلوباً غَدَت أَقسى من الحجر الصلدِ

As if you did not stand above pulpits

Striking hearts hardened like solid rock

لَئِن جرّعَت مِن كأسِ فقدك علقماً

فَيا طالَما جرّعتها خالص الشهدِ

If you have drunk deeply from the cup of your loss

Oh, how often you offered it pure honey

لَقد كُنت لِلخضرا شهاباً فَأَينما

تباعدُ عنها ماردَ الجنّ بالطردِ

Truly, you were a meteor for the green land

Wherever you fended off the defiant jinn

تُحرّرُ لِلقربى منَ اللّه وحدهُ

رقاباً غَدَت في ربقةِ الأسر كالعبدِ

You freed for kin, from God alone

Necks that were shackled in the fetters of captives

تَبوّأتَ مِن حكمِ اِبن داوودَ منزلاً

لِغيركم ما إن يرى قط من بعدِ

You attained from the rule of the son of David

A status never glimpsed by others ever after

هَنيئاً لَكَ الأجرُ الّذي قد أوتيته

جِوارَ كريمٍ واسعِ الفضلِ والرفدِ

Congratulations on the reward you were granted

The neighborhood of the Benevolent, Abundant in Grace

فَإنّ عِبادَ اللّه جلّ عياله

وَهُم لجنانِ الخلدِ أجدر بالودِّ

For God's servants are all His dependents

And most deserving of the gardens of eternity

فَها كلُّهم يَدعو بقولِ مؤرّخٍ

محمّد عباس أنل جنّة الخلدِ

So here they all pray in the words of a chronicler

“Muhammad Abbas, attain Heaven's eternity.”