صبري انمحى بعد صبري وانتهى جلدي

صبري انمحى بعد صبري وانتهى جلدي

فمن يزيل غليل الوجد عن كبدي

فمن يزيل غليل الوجد عن كبدي

My patience has vanished after my patience, and my endurance is spent.

My patience is gone after my patience, and my endurance has ended

Who, then, will remove grief’s burning anguish from my liver?

So who will remove the agony of passion from my liver

ومن يعزي وزيراً فارقت يده

ومن يعزي وزيراً فارقت يده

ريماً ثوى وهلالاً للتراب هُدِي

ريماً ثوى وهلالاً للتراب هُدِي

And who will console a minister whose hand has parted from

And who will console a minister whose hand I left

A gazelle laid to rest, and a crescent consigned to the dust?

A young gazelle laid to rest and a crescent moon buried in the dust

يبكي وينعي ابن سبع ما كملن له

يبكي وينعي ابن سبع ما كملن له

من الكمال نُهى سبعين مجتهد

من الكمال نُهى سبعين مجتهد

He weeps and mourns a boy not yet seven, who possessed

He cries and mourns a son of seven who was not completed

In his excellence, the wisdom of seventy diligent scholars.

Of perfection, seventy diligent ones were prohibited

وقوله ويد التقوى تؤرخه

وقوله ويد التقوى تؤرخه

نعيم مثلك في الفردوس يا ولدي

نعيم مثلك في الفردوس يا ولدي

And his words, as piety’s hand records the date of his death:

And his words, "The hand of piety dates it"

“Bliss for one like you is in Paradise, my son.”

Bliss like yours in Paradise, O my son