خَطْبَانِ قَدْ تَتَابَعَا وَأحْرَبَا

لِمَا أَصَابَ الثَّاكِلَ المُنْتَحِبَا

Two sermons followed one another while the bereaved mother grieved

For what befell her who lost her babies

أَنْضَبَ مَاءُ عَيْنِهِ مِمَّا بِكَى

نَجْلَيْهِ حَتَّى قَلْبُهُ تَصَبَّبا

Her eyes dried up from all her crying for her two boys until her heart was saturated

Joseph, grief is indeed severely overwhelming

يُوسُفُ أَنَّ الرُّزْءَ جِدُّ فَادِحٌ

فَارْجَعْ إِلَى العَقْلِ إِذا الطَّبْعُ أَبَى

So return to reason even if your innate disposition refuses

Were you not in everything you experienced

أَلَمْ تَكُنْ فِي كُلِّ مَا مَارَسْتَهُ

مَنْ عَرَكَ الدَّهْرَ وَرَاضَ المَصْعَبَا

One who contends with fate and is pleased with tribulation?

A decree from God has occurred so be patient with it

حِكْمٌ مِنَ اللهِ جَرَى فَاصْبِرْ لَهُ

وَعَلَّ صَبْراً يَدْرَأُ المَغْيَبَا

And equip yourself with patience that wards off the unseen

Your two remaining children intercede for you

شَفْعٌ بِطِفْلَيْكَ اللَّذَيْنِ بَقَيَا

لَكَ المَلاَكَيْنِ اللَّذَيْنِ ذَهَبَا

Two angels in place of the two who are gone

Strengthen your soul and carry their burden strenuously

وَاشْدُدْ قِوَى رُوحَكَ وَاحْمِلْ جَاهِداً

عِبْئَيْهِمَا أَلَسْتَ لِلْكُلِّ أَبَ

Are you not capable of it all?

When the shade stretches, what is their state?

إِذَا ضَحَا ظِلُّكَ مَا حَالُهُمَا

مُعَاقَبَينِ وَهُمَا مَا أَذْنَبَا

Chastised when they are innocent

O you whose kindness and opening his palms

يَا مَنْ بِعَطْفِهِ وَبَسْطِ كَفِّهِ

كَفَى الضِّعافَ المُعْدَمِينَ النُّوَبا

Sufficed the weak and needy

And eased life for those who found it constricted

وَوَسَّع العَيْشَ لَمَنْ ضَاقَ بِهِمْ

فَجَعَلَ العَيْشَ لَهُمْ مُحَبَّبا

Making life beloved to them

How can their misery be when they are deprived of

كَيْفَ يَكُونُ بُؤْسُهُمْ إِنْ حُرِمُوا

ذَاكَ النَّصيرَ الأَرْيحيَّ الحَدَبَا

That sympathetic crippled one

And the elect—most of them are desolate

وَالأَصْفِياءُ الكُثْرُ مَا وَحْشَتُهُمْ

إِنْ فَقَدوا أُنْسَ الصَّفيِّ المُجْتَبَى

If they lose the company of the chosen beloved

You are a nation whose youth is the desired

وَأُمَّة أَنْتَ فَتَاهَا المُرْتَجَى

فِي كُلِّ مَا تَبْغِي وََيَنْأَى مَطْلَبَا

In all that you seek and every pursuit

Do not sever a tie that gave you power

لاَ تَقْطَعَنَّ سَبَباً عَزَّتْ بِهِ

وَلَمْ يَكُنْ إِلاّكَ ذَاكَ السَّببَا

And none but you were that tie

Duruys was a flower in her splendor

دُرويسُ كَانَتْ فِي حَلاَهَا زَهْرَةً

والْيَومَ أْسَتْ فِي عَلاَها كَوكَبَا

And today she is a star in her loftiness

The most beautiful of girls, most chaste of manners

أَبْهَى البَنَاتِ صُورَةً أَنْقَى

اللَّدَاتِ سِيرَةً أَعَفَّهنَّ مَشْرَبا

The gentlest of them in nature

She passed through her life without attachment

مَرَّتْ بِدُنْيَاهَا فَلَمْ تَأْتَلِفَا

وَلَيسَ لِلْضِّدَيْنِ أَنْ يَصْطَحِبَا

For opposites cannot accompany one another

She knew nothing of it or from it except

فَمَا دَرَتْ مِنْهَا وَلاَ عَنْهَا سِوَى

ما كَانَ مَلْهَى طَاهِراً ومَلْعَبا

What was pure amusement and play

O mother, and you are the best example

يَا أُمَّها وَأَنْتََِ أَهْدَى قِدْوَةً

للأُمَّهاتِ خُلُقاً وَأَدَبَا

To mothers in manners and morals

Your living faith—and this is its time—

إِيمَانُكِ الحَيِّ وَهّذَا وَقْتُهُ

يُهِّن الْبَلْوَى وَيَأْتِي العَجَبَا

Makes tribulation effortless and brings wonders

Live, my Lord, for your two children for they

عِيشِي وَرَبِّي وَلَدَيْكِ فَهُمَا

يُعَزِّيَانِ الفَاقِدَ المُحْتَسَبا

Will comfort the bereaved patient one

And tend to their father for how much

وَارْعَيْ أَبَاهُمَا فَمَا أَحْوَجَهُ

إلى الَّتي رَعَتْهُ مِنْ عَهْدِ الصِّبا

He needs the one who tended him since childhood

In the Garden of God and in His Bliss

فِي جَنَّة اللهِ وَفِي نَعِيمِهِ

مُغْتَرِبَانِ عِنْدَهُ مَا اغْتَرَبا

They are lodged with Him, not expatriated

They were absent from eyes one morning

تَغَيَّبا عَنِ العُيوُنِ غَدْوَةً

لَكِنْ عَنِ الْقُلُوبِ مَا تَغَيَّبا

But from hearts they never went absent