يا أَيُّها الناعي أَبا الوُزَراءِ
هَذا أَوانُ جَلائِلِ الأَنباءِ
O you who mourns, O father of ministers
This is the time of momentous news
حُثَّ البَريدَ مَشارِقاً وَمَغارِباً
وَاِركَب جَناحَ البَرقِ في الأَرجاءِ
Urge the post from east to west
And ride the lightning through the horizons
وَاِستَبكِ هَذا الناسَ دَمعاً أَو دَماً
فَاليَومُ يَومُ مَدامِعٍ وَدِماءِ
And make these people cry tears or blood
For today is a day of tears and blood
لَم تَنعَ لِلأَحياءِ غَيرَ ذَخيرَةٍ
وَلَّت وَغَيرَ بَقِيَّةِ الكُبَراءِ
You left the living no legacy
But the perishing of the elders
رُزءُ البَرِيَّةِ في الوَزيرِ زِيادَةٌ
فيما أَلَمَّ بِها مِنَ الأَرزاءِ
The misery of creation with the minister increased
With what afflicted it of sorrows
ذَهَبَت عَلى أَثَرِ المُشَيَّعِ دَولَةٌ
بِرِجالِها وَكَرائِمِ الأَشياءِ
A state went after the mourned one
With its men and the finest things
نُدمانُ إِسماعيلَ في آثارِهِ
ذَهَبوا وَتِلكَ صُبابَةُ النُدَماءِ
Regretters of Ismail in his ruins
They went and those are the regrets of the regretters
وُلِدوا عَلى راحِ العُلا وَتَرَعرَعوا
في نِعمَةِ الأَملاكِ وَالأُمَراءِ
They were born on the carpets of glory and grew up
In the blessings of kings and princes
أَودى الرَدى بِمُهذَّبٍ لا تَنتَهي
إِلّا إِلَيهِ شَمائِلُ الرُؤَساءِ
Destiny took away a refined one that only
The traits of heads would end up to
صافي الأَديمِ أَغَرَّ أَبلَجَ لَم يَزِد
في الشَيبِ غَيرَ جَلالَةٍ وَرُواءِ
Pure complexioned, stunningly white, old age did not increase
Except majesty and satisfaction
مُتَجَنِّبِ الخُيَلاءِ إِلّا عِزَّةً
في العِزِّ حُسنٌ لَيسَ في الخُيَلاءِ
Avoider of arrogance except honor
In honor is beauty not in arrogance
عَفِّ السَرائِرِ وَالمَلاحِظِ وَالخُطا
نَزِهِ الخَلائِقِ طاهِرِ الأَهواءِ
Chaste of privacy, observation and mistakes
Immaculate creation, pure of passions
مُتَدَرِّعٍ صبرَ الكِرامِ عَلى الأَذى
إِنَّ الكِرامَ مَشاغِلُ السُفَهاءِ
Armored with the patience of honorable men to harm
Indeed, honorable men are the concerns of fools
نَقَموا عَلَيهِ رَأيَهُ وَصَنيعَهُ
وَالحُكمُ لِلتاريخِ في الآراءِ
They resented his opinion and his work
And judgment is for history in opinions
وَالرَأيُ إِن أَخلَصتَ فيهِ سَريرَةً
مِثلُ العَقيدَةِ فَوقَ كُلِّ مِراءِ
And the opinion, if you are sincere in it inwardly
Is like creed above all contention
وَإِذا الرِجالُ عَلى الأُمورِ تَعاقَبوا
كَشَفَ الزَمانُ مَواقِفَ النُظَراءِ
And when men take turns in affairs
Time reveals the perspectives of peers
يا أَيُّها الشَيخُ الكَريمُ تَحِيَّةً
أَندى لِقَبرِكَ مِن زُلالِ الماءِ
O noble Sheikh, greetings
Dewier to your grave than the water's moisture
هَذا المَصيرُ أَكانَ طولَ سَلامَةٍ
أَم لَم يَكُن إِلّا قَليلَ بَقاءِ
Is this fate, was it after long safety
Or was it nothing but little remaining
ماذا اِنتِفاعُكِ بِاللَيالي بَعدَ ما
مَرَّت بِكَ السَبعونَ مَرَّ عِشاءِ
What is your benefit from nights after
The seventy has passed the time of supper
أَو بِالحَياةِ وَقَد مَشى في صَفوِها
عادي السِنينَ وَعاثَ عادي الداءِ
Or from life, and the ravisher of years has walked in its prime
Regular of years sending regular of illnesses
مَن لَم يُطَبِّبهُ الشَبابُ فِداؤُهُ
حَتّى يُغَيِّبَهُ بِغَيرِ دَواءِ
Who is not cured by youth, his ransom
Until he makes him disappear without medicine
قَسَماتُ وَجهِكَ في التُرابِ ذَخائِرٌ
مِن عِفَّةٍ وَتَكَرُّمٍ وَحَياءِ
The features of your face in the soil are treasures
Of chastity, magnanimity, and shyness
وَلَكَم أَغارُ عَلى مُحَيّا ماجِدٍ
وَطَوى مَحاسِنَ مَسمَحٍ مِعطاءِ
And how I envy the deceased glorious
Who folded the beauties of a generous giver
كَم مَوقِفٍ صَعبٍ عَلى مَن قامَهُ
ذَلَّلتَهُ وَنَهَضتَ بِالأَعباءِ
How many difficult positions you stood up
Eased them, and carried the burdens
كِبرُ الغَضَنفَرِ يَومَ ذَلِكَ زادَهُ
مِن نَخوَةٍ وَحَمِيَّةٍ وَإِباءِ
The pride of Ghodhnofar that day increased him
From gallantry, zeal, and unwillingness
مَن يَكذِبِ التاريخَ يَكذِبُ رَبَّهُ
وَيُسيءُ لِلأَمواتِ وَالأَحياءِ
Who lies about history lies about his God
And wrongs the dead and alive
السِلمُ لَو لَم تودِ أَمسِ بِجُرحِها
أَودَت بِهَذي الطَعنَةِ النَجلاءِ
The thorn, if it did not want to wound it yesterday
It would have wounded with this smooth stab
لَو أُخِّرَت في العَيشِ بَعدَكَ ساعَةً
لَبَكَت عَلَيكَ بِمَدمَعِ الخَنساءِ
If I had been delayed alive after you an hour
I would have cried over you with Mayy's tears
اِنفُض غُبارَكَ عَنكَ وَاِنظُر هَل تَرى
إِلّا غُبارَ كَتيبَةٍ وَلِواءِ
Shake off your dust from yourself and look, do you see
Except the dust of a brigade and a banner
يا وَيحَ وَجهِ الأَرضِ أَصبَحَ مَأتَماً
بَعدَ الفَوارِسِ مِن بَني حَوّاءِ
Oh woe to the face of earth, it has become a funeral
After the knights from the people of Eve
مِن ذائِدٍ عَن حَوضِهِ أَو زائِدٍ
في مُلكِهِ مِن صَولَةٍ وَثَراءِ
Of preventer from his basin or exceeding
In his kingdom out of audacity and wealth
أَو مانِعٍ جاراً يُناضِلُ دونَهُ
أَو حافِظٍ لِعُهودِهِ ميفاءِ
Or preventer of a neighbor who contends to protect him
Or preserver of his covenants, faithful
يَتَقاذَفونَ بِذاتِ هَولٍ لَم تَهَب
حَرَمَ المَسيحِ وَلا حِمى العَذراءِ
They toss a being which neither
The sanctity of Christ nor the protection of Mary prohibited
مِن مُحدَثاتِ العِلمِ إِلّا أَنَّها
إِثمٌ عَواقِبُها عَلى العُلَماءِ
From innovations of science except that they
Are sins which their consequences are on scholars
لَهَفي عَلى رُكنِ الشُيوخِ مُهَدَّما
وَالحامِلاتِ الثُكلَ وَاليُتَماءِ
My craving for the pillar of sheikhs destroyed
And the widowed, orphaned women
وَعَلى الشَبابِ بِكُلِّ أَرضٍ مَصرَعٌ
لَهُمُ وَهُلكٌ تَحتَ كُلِّ سَماءِ
And for the youth in every land there is death
For them and destruction under every sky
خَرَجوا إِلى الأَوطانِ مِن أَرواحِهِم
كَرَمٌ يَليقُ بِهِم وَمَحضُ سَخاءِ
They went out to the homelands from their souls
Generosity befitting them and pure generosity
مِن كُلِّ بانٍ بِالمَنِيَّةِ في الصِبا
لَم يَتَّخِذ عِرساً سِوى الهَيجاءِ
Of every one with youth perished with madness
He has taken no spouse but madness
المُرضِعاتُ سَكَبنَ في وِجدانِهِ
حُبَّ الدِيارِ وَبِغضَةَ الأَعداءِ
The wet nurses poured in his conscience
Love of home and hatred of enemies
وَقَرَّرنَ في أُذُنَيهِ يَومَ فِطامِهِ
أَنَّ الدِماءَ مُهورَةُ العَلياءِ
And they settled in his two ears the day they weaned him
That blood is the marriage requirements of the sublime
أَأَبا البَناتِ رُزِقتَهُنَّ كَرائِماً
وَرُزِقتُ في أَصهارِكَ الكُرَماءِ
My father of daughters, were you given them noble women
And was I given in your in-laws the generous
لا تَذهَبَنَّ عَلى الذُكورِ بِحَسرَةٍ
الذِكرُ نِعمَ سُلالَةُ العُظَماءِ
Let them not go for the males in longing
Males are good lineage of the great
وَأَرى بُناةَ المَجدِ يَثلِمُ مَجدَهُم
ما خَلَّفوا مِن طالِحٍ وَغُثاءِ
And I see the builders of glory, their glory wears out
What they left of devious and wicked
إِنَّ البَناتَ ذَخائِرٌ مِن رَحمَةٍ
وَكُنوزُ حُبٍّ صادِقٍ وَوَفاءِ
The daughters are treasures of mercy
And treasures of sincere love and loyalty
وَالساهِراتُ لِعِلَّةٍ أَو كَبرَةٍ
وَالصابِراتُ لِشِدَّةٍ وَبَلاءِ
The sleepless for illness or old age
And the patient in hardship and affliction
وَالباكِياتُكَ حينَ يَنقَطِعُ البُكا
وَالزائِراتُكَ في العَراءِ الناءِ
The ones crying when crying stops
And the visitors in plains showing distress
وَالذاكِراتُكَ ما حَيِينَ تَحَدُّثاً
بِسَوالِفِ الحُرُماتِ وَاللَآلاءِ
And those remembering you, whenever they converse
In the tales of the lady friends and nice ones
بِالأَمسِ عَزّاهُنَّ فيكَ عَقائِلٌ
وَاليَومَ جامَلَهُنَّ فيكَ رِثائي
Yesterday, relatives consoled them in you
And today, my elegy flattered them in you
أَبيكَ ما الدُنيا سِوى مَعروفِها
وَالبِرَّ كُلُّ صَنيعَةٍ بِجَزاءِ
My father, what is the world but its kindness
And righteousness is every deed's reward
أَجَزِعنَ أَن يَجري عَلَيهِنَّ الَّذي
مِن قَبلِهِنَّ جَرى عَلى الزَهراءِ
Do they resent what flowed unto them
From before onto Az-Zahra
عُذراً لَهُنَّ إِذا ذَهَبنَ مَعَ الأَسى
وَطَلَبنَ عِندَ الدَمعِ بَعضَ عَزاءِ
Excuze them if they went with grief
And sought at tears some comfort
ما كُلُّ ذي وَلَدٍ يُسَمّى والِداً
كَم مِن أَبٍ كَالصَخرَةِ الصَمّاءِ
Not every fathered one is called father
How many father like the deaf rock
هَبهُنَّ في عَقلِ الرِجالِ وَحِلمِهِم
أَقُلوبُهُنَّ سِوى قُلوبُ نِساءِ
Give them in the mind and patience of men
Their hearts except the hearts of women
