قد أصبحت تحسد الأحياء موتاها

لما غدت دوحة التوفيق إحداها

The living now envy the dead their demise

Since the palm tree of divine aid became one of them

كريمةٌ نورها يعلو على شفق ال

نور الذي باسمه المبرور سماها

A noble whose light transcends the dawn glow

The light that the Blissful named it with His name

واحسرتاه على شمس تناولها

من عرشها جدث وارى محيّاها

And I lament the sun whose death it witnessed

From its throne a corpse that enlivened it

لو غابت الشمس والأقمار قاطبةً

والعين تنظرها استغنت بمرآها

If the sun and all the moons were to disappear

And the eye still beholds it, it would suffice with its reflection

لا أبصرت عينَ شمسٍ عينُ غانيةٍ

لم تبك غايبة الشمسين عيناها

No eye has seen a sun, nor Ghaniya’s eye

That did not weep the loss of the two suns, her eyes

ولا سقى اللَه من لم يسق مدمعه

منازلاً سُقيت من سيل نعماها

May Allah not quench the thirst of one who did not wet

With his tears the dwellings flooded by His blessings

ويل العفاة وويل القايلات لنا

صار الدعاء بديلاً من عطاياها

Woe to the heedless, woe to those who told us:

Supplications have become a substitute for her grants

يا مصر أين التي بالعسجد انتعلت

وبالكمال إله العرش حلّاها

Oh Egypt, where is she who donned determination

And with perfection, the God of the Throne adorned her

صار التراب بديلاً من غلايلها

وصار بعد عناها اللحد مغناها

Dust has become a substitute for her fine silks

And the grave after her has become its lyric

ليعمل العاقل النحرير ما عملت

من الصلاح الذي أرضت به اللَه

Let the sensible do the good that she did

With which she pleased Allah

عساه يدرك بالتقوى مكانتها

ويحتظي بجواره اللَه مولاها

Hopefully through piety he will attain her status

And live under Allah’s protection, his Master

واللَه لو نظرت أحوالنا لبكت

عنا وقالت دعوا وابكوا الذي تاها

By Allah, if she saw our state she would weep

For us and say: Stop, weep for the one who wandered

وما اقتنى بفعال الخير سابغةً

لا يهمل اللَه مخلوقاً تردّاها

One who did not acquire good deeds perfected

Allah does not neglect a creature who supplicates Him

أتحزنون على من قدمت عملاً

كادت تداوي به الأحياء موتاها

Do you grieve over one whose deeds nearly

Healed the living their demise?

وخلفت أسداً للَه تخلفه

أسود غاب لدين اللَه ربّاها

She left behind a lion of Allah that succeeded her

Lions that disappeared for the sake of Allah, Who raised her

خفّض عناك إمام المتقين فكا

سات اليقين جميع الناس تسقاها

Lower from us the Imam of the pious so cups of certainty

Can quench all people’s thirst from its draft

أبوك آدم والهادي ترشَّفها

وسوف ترتشف الدنيا بقاياها

Your father Adam and the Guide—an honor for her

And the world will gain from her remnants

لا زال مضجعها يروى بماطرةٍ

تفيض من رحمة الباري نعاماها

Her resting place is still watered with a rain

Pouring from the Most Kind’s mercy, His blessings

وجادك اللَه بالصبر الجميل ولا

برحت يا كوكب الدنيا لنا جاها

May Allah grant you beautiful patience, and you have not

Ceased being a star, shining for us, O noble one