إِن المنية في الوَرى أَسبابُ

والعذب منها في المذاق عذابُ

The causes of death in the world are many

And the sweetest among them in taste is agony

إِن تسألوا كيف الشهيد فهذه

صفة الشهيد فأحمد الأَواب

If you ask how the martyr was, this

Is the description of the martyr, so praise the returnees

أَمسى قتيلاً في ذؤابة قومه

والقاتلوه هم به الطلاب

He died a victim among his tribe at night

And those who killed him, they are the seekers of him

كسروا حسامهم خطا وتعمدا

تركوا الصواب وما سواه أَصابوا

They broke their swords intentionally and mistakenly

They abandoned righteousness and anything other than it they attained

أَيديهمُ قطعت بعمد أَو خطا

ما هكذا هو في القصاص صواب

Their hands were cut off intentionally or mistakenly

This is not right in retaliation

يا طال ما هم قد أجابوه إِلى

جاب العدو فكيف فيه أَجابوا

O long how they did not answer him

The enemy answered, so how did they answer?

إِن المقدر في المصور كائن

ما عنه إِن ذهب البقاء ذهاب

What is decreed by the Shaper will happen

Whether eternal life goes away or remains

لا تدفع الأَبواب نازلة القضا

أَبداً فما دون القضاء الباب

The doors of destiny never ward off

What is below destiny ever

وإِذا رضي الباري على بشر أَتت

منه له بيد القضا أَسباب

And if the Creator is pleased with a human

The means come to him from Him by the hand of destiny

فالموت موت واحد لكنما

أَسبابه فتحت لها أَبواب

So death is one death but

Its causes, doors were opened for them

بعض يموت وحتف أَنف موته

والبعض جالب موته القرضاب

Some die an unexpected death

And some, their death is brought by doubt

أَحبب بموتة أحمد قد ماتها

وله الملائك والورى أَحباب

Love the death Ahmad died

For him are the angels and all people are loved ones

والصالحات شعاره والآي فه

و مناره وصنيعه أحزاب

Righteous deeds are his signs

And verses are his minarets and good deed his factions

فلرحمة الرحمن روحك أحمد

راحت وإِن لك النعيم مآب

So for the mercy of the Merciful, your soul Ahmad

Rested, and indeed for you is the blissful place

هذا الفراق متى يكون بك اللقا

وعليك من صم الصلاد صلاب

When will this separation be, that we meet?

And upon you from the silent grave is vertical wood

كنت الجدير يكون قبرك مقلتي

وحشاشتي فعسى عليك أُثاب

You deserved your grave to be my oven

And my mortar, so may you be rewarded

كل البلاد وأَهلها يا أحمد

من حيث أَوراك التراب تراب

All the countries and its people, O Ahmad

From where the soil covered you, it is soil

زارتك من ذات الاله لطائف

وسقى عظامك في الضريح سحاب

Comforting visions from the Godhead visited you

And a cloud watered your bones in the grave

ولدي وقرة مقلتي كبدي بها

لهب عليك وما عليك أهاب

I have solace in my oven, my inner flames

Burn for you and I do not fear you

فلأنت في كلأ الاله ومنعه

وعليك من شيء تخاف حجاب

For you are in the fold of God and His refuge

And you do not have anything over you like a veil

بالجمعة الزهرا وسادس عشرة

من ذي جمادى الآخر المنساب

On Friday the blossoms and the sixteenth

Of Dhu al-Jumada al-Akhirah, the flooding

من عام تسع مئين يحدو خلفها

عد الثمانين الحساب حساب

From the year nine hundred preceded by

Counting the eighties, it is counting

إِن كان قد أَمسى قتيلاً في الثَرى

فله أَياد قد بقين رغاب

If he has died a victim in the ground

For him hands remained desiring

نور أَضا بضريحه وبداره

وتلفعت منه له أَثواب

Light emanating from his grave and his house

And garments wrapped around him

ومكارم بقيت خلاف مماته

كالغيث يبقى روضه المعشاب

And glorious deeds that remained after his death

Like rain that leaves vegetation

خفضا بشأنك سالم إِن العزا

لك فيه محمدة زكت وثواب

Lowering regarding you, greetings, indeed eulogy

For you in it is praise that is pure and reward

فارفق بنفسك إِن نفسك حرة

والحر من ذات الاله يهاب

So be gentle with yourself, your soul is free

And the free ones are feared by the Godhead

لا تطلبن بثأره من آله

كم طالب أخنى عليه طلاب

Do not seek revenge from his family

How many seeking revenge were ruined by seeking

فالعبد كان هو الغريم لأحمد

والقتل قول والقصاص جواب

For the slave was the adversary of Ahmad

And the murder is words and retaliation is the answer

لا تأخذن بذاك هذا إنه

حكم الخطا والفعل فيه حاب

Do not take that, this - it

Is the rule of mistake and the action in it is confusion

واللَه يحكم بينهم في موقف

ملك الملوك يكون فيه ذباب

And Allah judges between them in a stand

The King of Kings where there will be insects

واصبر وصبرك بالاله وحكمه

إِن الصبور على الدعاء مجاب

And be patient - your patience is with God and His judgment

Indeed, the patient upon supplication is answered

كم فتنة نشأت لمثلك عاقل

أَطفا لظاها بالنهي فتجاب

How many tribulations occurred to a reasonable person like you

He extinguished its flames by prohibition, so it was extinguished

إِني نصحتك والمودة بيننا

في اللَه إِن ودادنا أَنساب

I advised you while there is affection between us

In Allah - our affection is ancestry