أَعَن واقِدٍ خَبَّرَتني وَاِبنُ جَمرَةٍ

وَآلِ شَهابِ خامِدٌ كُلُّ واقِدِ

The dying embers informed me, and Ibn Jamrah,

And the family of Shihab, every dying ember,

وَما الناسُ إِلّا خائِفو اللَهَ وَحدَهُ

إِذا وَقَعَ التُمِيُّ في كَفِّ ناقِدِ

People are only fearful of Allah alone,

When disasters befall the critic’s grasp,

رَقَوا وَرَقَدنا فَاِعتَلوا هُوَيَّنا

وَتِلكَ المَراقي غَيرُ هَذي المَراقِدِ

They fled and we slept, so they demolished our love,

And those sights are not the same as these resting places,

فِراقُ دُرٍّ أَعطاكَ غَيرَ مُقَصِّرِ

نِظامَ الثُرَيّا أَو فَريدَ الفَراقِدِ

Parting from a pearl has given you that which is not deficient,

The system of ath-Thurayya or the unique one of the tombs,

إِذا خَلَجَتني مِن حَياةٍ مَنيَّةٌ

فَلَستُ عَلى الباغي العَدُوِّ بِحاقِدِ

When the terminating life convulses me,

I do not hold hatred towards the transgressing enemy,

وَأَفرَقُ مِن يَومٍ تُصَمُّ غَواتُهُ

فَتَعولُ إِعوالَ النِساءِ الفَواقِدِ

And I differ from a day whose darkness engulfs,

So it howls the howling of bereaved women.