أَلَم تَرَ أَنَّ خَيرَ النَّاسِ أَودى

فَيا للنَّاس للحَدَث العَظيمِ

Have you not seen that the best of people are most benevolent

So woe to people for the momentous event

جَزاكَ اللَّهُ يَومَ فَقَدتَ عَنّا

جَزاءَ الوالِدِ البَرِّ الرَّحيمِ

May Allah reward you on the day we lost you

With the reward of the righteous and merciful parent

وُليتَ فَلَم تَزَل حَيّاً وَمَيتاً

عَلى نَهجِ الطَّريقِ المُستَقيمِ

If only you had lived, and even when deceased

Followed the straight path as you did in life

وَوَلَّيتَ الخِلافَةَ سايسيها

فَلا حكش وَلا اِبن أَبي حَكيمِ

You entrusted the caliphate to one fit to rule it

Not Hakim’s son nor a Habashi usurper