أُصِبْتَ مصائبَ كنتُ الشري

ك فيها الكثير السخا والشجونِ

You were struck with calamities in which I was extremely cruel

With much audacity and lamentations towards you

فما لي لديك كأني الذي

رماك بها دونَ رَيْبِ المَنون

So why am I to you as if I

Was the one who afflicted you with them without doubt of fate

سقَى اللَّه موتى بَكيناهُمُ

أسىً لأَساكَ بدمعٍ هتُون

May God water those we cried over their death

With sorrow for your misfortunes with abundant, flowing tears

على أنّهم قطعوا بيننا

وبينك حبلَ وصالٍ أَمون

For they have cut between us

And you the rope of secure connection

عتبتَ عليّ لأن الزما

ن ينحى عليهم ببَرْكٍ طَحون

You blame me because time

Inclines away from them with abundant grace

ولو نستطيع وقَيْناهُمُ

وصناهمُ لك بين الجفون

If only we could have protected them

And guarded them for you between the eyelids

ولو مِنْ سواكَ أتَتْ هذه

لأصبح نصْباً لرجْم الظنون

And if these had come from anyone but you

It would have been an object of the conjectures' stoning

وقيل وإن كان ذا حكمةٍ

أصابته طائفةٌ من جُنون

And it was said even if he was wise

An aberration of madness has struck him