يا بَهجَةَ الدُنيا الَّتي

كانَت بِهِ الدُنيا تَحَلَّت

Oh brightness of this life with which

O joy of the world, the very essence

The world was adorned

With which the world was once adorned,

قَلَّت لِفَقدِكَ عَبرَةٌ

أَذرَيتُها قَلَّت وَقَلَّت

My tears have flowed and flowed

Too scant is the tear shed for your loss,

For your loss

Which I have poured out; it is little, far too little.

لَمّا مَشى في نَعلِ هِم

مَتِهِ إِلى العَلياءِ زَلَّت

When he walked in their slippers

When he walked, shod in the sandals of...

To the Most High, stumbling

...his ambition toward the heights, his footing slipped.

فَكَأَنَّهُ نَجمٌ هَوى

قَذَفَت بِهِ دَجنٌ فَوَلَّت

As if he were a star cast down

As though he were a star that plummeted,

By fate relentless

Cast down by a dark cloud that then turned away.

صِرنا أُسىً إِن عُزِّيَت

يَوماً بِنا ثَكلى تَسَلَّت

We have become grief-stricken, inconsolable

We have become such sorrow that if, through our pain,

One day bereaved, deprived

A bereaved mother were consoled one day, she would find solace.