يا زائرَ القبرِ الذي

ملَّ الزيارةَ زائرُهْ

O visitor of the grave whose

visitor has filled visiting,

ما إن يحاورُكَ الذي

فيه فكيفَ تحاورُه

How can you converse with the one

within it, so how can he converse with you?

للهِ قبرٌ حاز با

طنُه الجمالَ وظاهرُه

Allah has a grave that has achieved

Beauty in its interior and exterior.

فيه الحجى حُبِسَت أَوا

ئلُهُ به وأواخِرُه

In it, the talkative one was imprisoned -

His first and last words with Him.

بَدْرٌ غَزَتْهُ من الكس

فِ جيوشُهُ وعساكرُه

A full moon whose armies and soldiers

Attacked him from all sides.

ما ذلك المقبورُ عبدُ ال

لهِ لكن قابرُه

That buried one is not the servant of

Allah, but his entomber.

مَنْ ذا يفاخر بي الأدي

بَ إذا أَتاه يفاخره

Who competes with me in literature

When he comes to compete?

أَم ذا يكاثر بي الذي

بالشعرِ جاءَ يُكاثره

Or who contends with me in poetry

Came to contend it?

أَحللتَ بي يا دهرُ ما

قد كنتُ منكَ أُحاذره

You have made lawful against me, oh time, what

I used to be wary of from you.

غصنٌ منذ ثَنيْتَهُ

بالعُنْفِ أَنكَ كاسِرُه

A branch, since you bent it

Forcefully, you would break it.