وَلَقَد بَكَيتُ وَعَزَّ مَهلِكُ جَعفَرٍ

حُبَّ النَبِيِّ عَلى البَرِيَّةِ كُلِّها

I wept and the death of Ja'far was momentous

Love of the Prophet over all the creation

وَلَقَد جَزِعتُ وَقُلتُ حينَ نُعيتَ لي

مَن لِلجَلادِ لَدى العُقابِ وَظِلِّها

And I was distraught when you were announced dead to me

Who can face the executioner and its shadows

بِالبيضِ حينَ تُسَلُّ مِن أَغمادِها

يَوماً وَإِنهالِ الرِماحِ وَعَلِّها

With the swords when they are unsheathed from their scabbards

A day when the spears collide and excel each other

بَعدَ اِبنِ فاطِمَةَ المُبارَكِ جَعفَرٍ

خَيرَ البَرِيَّةِ كُلِّها وَأَجَلِّها

After the son of Fatima the Blessed, Ja'far

The best of all creation and its most majestic

رُزءً وَأَكرَمِها جَميعاً مُحتِداً

وَأَعَزِّها مُتَظَلِّماً وَأَذَلَّها

Derided and the most generous of them, united

And the proudest, most wronged, and most humiliated

لِلحَقِّ حينَ يَنوبُ غَيرَ تَنَحُّلٍ

كَذِباً وَأَغمَرِها يَداً وَأَقَلَّها

For the truth when the untrustworthy take turns

Falsely and overwhelmingly and minimally

فُحشاً وَأَكثَرِها إِذا ما تُجتَدى

فَضلاً وَأَبذَلِها نَدىً وَأَدَلَّها

Obscenely and the most chaste when she is assaulted

With merit and who expends the most clouds and rain

عَالخَيرِ بَعدَ مُحَمَّدٍ لا شِبهُهُ

بَشَرٌ يُعَدُّ مِنَ البَرِيَّةِ جُلِّها

The best after Muhammad, no human resembles him

Considered from all the cream of creation