اللهُ بَاقٍِ وَكُلُّ هَالِكٌ مُودِي

وَالمَوتُ لَيسَ عَلَى حَالٍ بِمَردُودِ

God is eternal while all else perishes

And death cannot be reversed or eluded

فَانظُر وَإنَّكَ فِي الدُّنيَا عَلَى خَطَرٍ

مَا يَفعَلُ الدَّهرُ فِي صُمِّ الجَلاَمِيدِ

So see that in this life you walk a narrow ledge

As time ravages even mountains solid and rigid

وَقَد رَمَاهَا العَنَا فِي دَارِ غِبطَتِهِ

إذَا استَفَادَ بِلىً مِنهَأ بِتَجدِيدِ

It flung the pearls into the abode of loss

When it eroded them till no luster remained hid

هَذَا مُحَمَدٌّ المَحمُودُ أَجمَعُهُ

قَد خَلَّفَ الدَّهرَ فِينَا غَيرَ مَحمُودِ

This is Muhammad, the universally praised

Who left the times unlike any commended

فَأَيُّ حَظٍّ مِنَ المَعرُوفِ مُنقَطِعٍ

وَأيُّ رُكنٍ مِنَ الإِسلاَمِ مَهدُودِ

What share of grace is now severed?

What pillar of Islam lies now demolished?

أودَى ابنُ عَبَّاسٍ الثَّانِي وَوَارِثُهُ

دُنيَا وَعِلماً وَفَضلاً غَيرَ مَجحُودِ

The second Abbasid heir and his inheritor

Left worldly goods, knowledge, merits undefeated

أودَآ وَلم يُبقِ شَيئاً كَانَ يَملِكُهُ

إلاَّ بُيُوتاً كَأمثَالِ المَسَاجِيدِ

He left nothing that he used to own

Except homes like the likeness of mosques

مَن لاَ يَرُدُّ ضَعِيفاً عِندَ مَسأَلَةٍ

وَلاَ يُرَى وَهوَ ثَانِي العِطفِ وَالجِيد

He who rejects not the plea of one in need

Nor is seen as the next in kindness and bounty

فَليَبكِهِ كُلُّ مَلهُوفٍ لِحَاجَتِهِ

وَكُلُّ مُعفىً عَنِ الأبوَابِ مَطرُودِ

Let him be mourned by all who crave his aid

And those barred from his doors, forcibly precluded

لَهُ التَّقَدُّمُ فِي فَرضٍ وَنَافِلَةٍ

عَلَى أَيِمَّتِنَا الغُرِّ الصَّنَادِيدش

He preceded in voluntary and obligatory acts

Over our shining moons, luminous as lamps

فَمَا رَأيتُ مَصَابِيحَ الهُدَى اجتَمَعُوا

إِلاَّ وَأَلقَوا إلَيهِ بِالمَقَالِيدِ

Never have I seen the guiding lights gathered

Except that they conferred authority onto him amidst