صَبراً أَبا عَبدِ الإِلَهِ عَنِ الَّتي

سَلَبَت جَميلَ الصَبرِ يَومَ تَوَلَّتِ

Patience, O father of the God

For she who deprived patience of its beauty the day she turned away

عَن دُرَّةٍ جَلى الضَريحُ جَمالَها

وَعَقيلَةٍ بِالمَكرُماتِ تَحَلَّتِ

From a pearl, whose splendor the tomb revealed

And a virtuous woman adorned with noble deeds

حُجِبَت بِتُربِ القَبرِ عَن أَبصارِنا

لَكِنَّها بَينَ الجَوانِحِ حَلَّتِ

She was veiled from our eyes by the dust of the grave

Yet she settled between hearts

بَخِلَ الغَمامُ بِصَوبِهِ عَن تُربِها

فَسَقيتُها العَبَراتِ لَمّا اِنهَلَّتِ

The clouds were stingy with their rain over her tomb

So I watered it with tears when they poured down

عَزَّت عَلى الكُرَماءِ مِن مَفقودَةٍ

وَدَهَت مُصيبَتُها الجَلالَ فَجَلَّتِ

She was too noble for the generous to lose

And her tragedy exalted glory, so it became magnificent

لَو تَستَبينُ الأَرضُ قَدرَ جَلالِها

بِكُمُ لَأَلقَت شَخصَها وَتَخَلَّتِ

If the earth could recognize her majesty’s worth

It would toss itself about and shake

رَيحانَةٌ ذَبَلَت وَقَرَّت أَعيُنٌ

أَلقَتكَ أَيامَ السُرورِ وَقَلَّتِ

A blossom withered and eyes dimmed

The days of joy discarded you

حازَت بِكُمُ شَرَفَ العُمومَةِ فَاِنجَلَت

شَمساً دَهاها الكَسفُ حينَ تَجَلَّتِ

Through you it attained the nobility of motherhood and shone

A sun eclipsed when it appeared

فَاِصبِر إِنَّ الحُرَّ مَن إِن تَدعُهُ

لِلصَبرِ طابَت نَفسُهُ وَتَسَلَّتِ

So be patient, truly the freeman whom if you leave him

His soul is at ease with patience and relaxes

فَالمَوتُ أَمرٌ عَمَّ فينا حُكمُهُ

خَضَعَت لِعِزَّتِهِ الرِقابُ وَذَلَّتِ

For death is a matter whose rule has spread among us

Necks and heads have submitted to its might and bowed down