عزاء فما نفس على المَوت عزت

ولا جاوزت عن حد وقت مؤقت

Consolation, yet no soul against death was consoled

Nor exceeded the appointed time that was allotted

نروح ونغدو كالبهائم رتعا

ولم ندر ما وقت المنايا ألمت

We go and come like beasts grazing

And we did not know when the time of death has arrived

هوامل في روض الأَماني وما درت

جيوش المنايا بالرز أخفت

Preoccupied in the garden of wishes but did not realize

The armies of death with affliction were hidden

يروعنا صوت الجنائز مذ بدت

بمن حملت نحو الكفات فأكفت

The sound of funerals frightens us since it started

With whom it carried towards shrouds thus covered

وتشغلنا الدنيا بزخرف غيها

ولم نعتبر منها بمن هي أَغوت

And the world preoccupies us with its empty decorations

And we did not learn from it when it seduced

مصائب قد أَمت بقوم أَمامنا

ولا غرو عن حين بنا فهي أَمت

Calamities that have afflicted people before us

And it is no wonder when it afflicts us in our time

لذاذة دنيانا تشاب بغصة

وسراؤها يا طالما هي ضرت

The pleasures of our world resemble bitterness

And its secrets, oh how often they have harmed

فما وهبت إلا وقد سلبت ولا

لنا ضحكت إِلا استحالت فأبكت

So it did not grant except it took away and never

Did it smile at us except it ended up making us cry

حياة الفتى فيها لكالسيف مصلتا

فإن مات أَمسى في الثرى غير مصلت

The life of a young man in it is like a polished sword

If he dies he ends up in the soil without being polished

وكالغصن ريان بماء حياته

فإن مات أضحى مسحتاً أَي مسحت

And like a branch watered by the water of his life

If he dies he becomes wiped out, yes wiped out

وإِن المعزي ومن به

يعزي لفي نهج إِلى الحشر مصمت

And the consoler and the one consoled

Walk the path to resurrection in silence

ولا كالتعازي بيننا فهي سنة

فميت يعزي ميتاً فقد ميت

And not like the condolences between us as it is a tradition

A dead person consoles another dead, thus a dead one

عزاء وصبراً في أَبيك محمد

فقم في مقام قام فيه وثبت

Condolences and patience for your father Muhammed

So stand up in the stance he stood in it and was steadfast

فإِن الأَب الزاكي يحمل نسله

عظائم مجد منه عزت وخلت

For the righteous father carries his progeny

The great glories of glory from him became valorous and eminent

فما لأبيك الخير شكل بدهره

متى في الورى دهياء عمياء حلت

Your good father was not fazed by the times

Whenever ignorance and blindness befell the land

طوى اللَه منه الأَرض طياً لوعده

بأمثاله تطوى إِلى قذف طيت

God folded the earth for him as a fulfillment of his promise

That it will be folded for the likes of him to be tossed

فقد حمت الحاجات من بعد موته

وكانت به إِلا له فهي حمت

For after his death, the needs were protected

And were through him except for him thus protected

فمن سره تشتيت علم ودفنه

فهذا دليل في الملم المشتت

So whoever was pleased with the dispersion of his knowledge and its burial

This indicates the evidence of the confused dispersal

سقت قبر عبدالله كل سحابة

نشت وسقت أخرى إِذا ما تنتشت

Every cloud that rose watered the grave of Abdullah

And another cloud watered when it rose

إِذا أنهلت قبراً له أَنهلت به

قبوراً لجيران له ثم علت

If it quenched a grave of his, it quenched with it

Graves of his neighbors, then it ascended

وإِن عاش فينا جمعة إبن أحمد

فما فقد الاسلام رغماً بميت

And if Jumah the son of Ahmed lives among us

Then Islam did not lose despite the dead

هو العالم المفتي بدين محمد

نوادر علم أَبهتت كل مبهت

He is the scholar jurist in the religion of Muhammed

Rare knowledge that dazzled all the dazzled

صلاة من الرحمن خصت محمدا

وفي آله والتابعين فعمت

Prayers from the Merciful specifically for Muhammed

And towards his family and followers thus encompassed