لا تشتُموا مُلتحدًا في موتِهِ

بتَضَرُّعٍ للهِ حتّى يَرْحمَا

Do not insult an atheist in his death

With prayers to God that He may have mercy

تترحَّمونَ علىْ الّذي بدُعائِكمْ

ما ازدادَ إلّا غِلظةً وتهَكُّما:

You have mercy on him whom with your prayers

Increased nothing but stubbornness and silence

أقبحْ بِها من رفقةٍ لمْ يكفِها

الشيطانُ بيْ كيْلا تهابَ جَهنَّما

Worse than a company that Satan could not satisfy

Lest they fear hellfire

لا تُشعِلوهُ بلِ اطفئوهُ فإنّه

حطَبٌ لهَا ولغيرِها لنْ يُطعَما

Do not fuel it, rather extinguish it, for it is

Firewood for it and others, it will not be fed

وادعوا لهُ من صوبَهمْ قدْ يمَّما

كيْ يشرَبوا كأسًا ويُحيوا مأْتَما

And pray for him from those poisoned

That they may drink a cup and enliven a feast

ثمَّ اجعلُوا حولَ الضّريحِ حدائقًا

واجْرُوا نُهورًا بينَها ونسَائِما

Then make gardens around the grave

And make rivers flow between them and breezes

كيْ لا يُرىْ وجهُ التُّرابِ مُحدِّثا

عمّا رأىْ تحتَ الثّرى مُتألِّما

So the face of dust is not seen

Speaking of what he saw under the soil in pain

فإذا الترابُ روَىْ عليهِ ترَحَّمُوا

حتّى يصيرَ إليهِ ذاكَ شتائِما

When the dust is watered over him, have mercy

Until to him come those insulting

ثمَّ ادفنوا منْ بعدِهِ آراءهُ

في تربةِ النّسيانِ كيْ لا تُعلَما

Then bury after him his opinions

In the soil of oblivion, so they are not known

كيْلا يُعذّبَ ذكرُهُ منْ بعدِهِ

إنْ ملّ رأيٌ بيتَه أو عُمِّما

Lest his memory be tortured thereafter

If an opinion centered on him or generalized

فالرأيُ إنْ لمْ يُكْتمِ لنْ يَكْتُما

سرَّ الّذِي برحيلهِ قد يُتِّما

For the opinion, if not hidden, will not hide

The secret that with his departure may be completed

فإذا تبيّنَ بعضُهمْ آراءَهُ

لانتْ جوارحُهُ وزادَ ترحُّمَا

So when some of them realize his opinions

His limbs weaken and his mercy increases

حتّى يكونا في العذابِ معًا فرِفْ

قًا إنّ صاحبَكُم أرادَ جَهنَّما

Until they are both in torment together, so gently

Your friend wished for hell

لمْ يقبلِ الرّحمنَ حيًّا ميِّتا

حتّى يُساوىْ بالّذِي قدُ أسّلَما

The Merciful did not accept alive or dead

Until equal with those who submitted

إنّا لنرجوْ رحمةً مِنْ ربِّنا

لمُصَدِّقٍ حتّى إذا هوَ أجْرَما

We hope for mercy from our Lord

For the truthful even when he sins

لا للّذينَ بربِّهمْ كفرُوا وهمْ

ممّن عليهِمْ ربّهم قدْ أنعما

Not for those who disbelieved in their Lord and they

Are of those whom their Lord favored