أَيا أَمينَ اللَهِ مَن لِلنَدى

وَعِصمَةِ الضَعفى وَفَكِّ الأَسير

O faithful servant of Allah, who remains for the dew

O Trustee of God, who remains for the dew of generosity,

And protection of the weak, and freeing the captive

To safeguard the weak and set the captive free?

خَلَّفتَنا بَعدَكَ نَبكي عَلى

دُنياكَ وَالدينِ بِدَمعٍ غَزير

You left us after you, weeping over

You have left us behind you, weeping over

Your worldly life and religion with plentiful tears

Your world and the Faith with copious tears.

يا وَحشَتا بَعدَكَ ماذا بِنا

أَحَلَّ مِن ضَنكٍ صُروفَ الدُهور

O our loneliness after you, what has befallen us

O the desolation after you! What has befallen us

Of sorrows brought by the turns of fate

Of narrowing hardship from the vicissitudes of time?

لا خَيرَ لِلأَحياءِ في عَيشِهِم

بَعدَكَ وَالزُلفى لِأَهلِ القُبور

There is no good in the lives of the living

There is no good for the living in their days

After you, while nearness is for the people of graves

After you; true favor now belongs to the people of the graves.