1. جلل ألم على الكرام فهالا

    وأمال عرش المكرمات فمالا

    A grave calamity befell the noble and appalled them,

    and tilted the throne of noble deeds, so it leaned.

  2. جلل له اسود البلاد وأرجف

    السبع الشداد وزلزلت زلزالا

    A calamity at which the lands turned black, and which shook

    the seven mighty heavens, convulsed in a mighty quake.

  3. لو أنه بالشهب حل لقضها

    أو بالجبال لقلقل الأجبالا

    Had it descended upon the bright stars, it would have shattered them,

    or upon the mountains, it would have shaken the mountains.

  4. يوما به ألوى القضا بمحمد

    الحسن الزكي مآثرا وفعالا

    On a day when fate swept away Muhammad

    al-Hasan, pure in his merits and deeds.

  5. قل للألى شدوا الرحال فلا أرى

    أحدا تشد له الأنام رحالا

    Tell those who fastened their saddlebags: I see no

    one for whom mankind would fasten saddlebags.

  6. قد كان بحر ندى وغاض عبابه

    فالناس تحسو بعده الأوشالا

    He was a sea of generosity, and its surging waters have receded;

    so after him people sip mere trickles.

  7. علم سوى المعروف لم يعرف ولم

    يعقد على غير التقى سربالا

    An eminent man who knew nothing but goodness, and never

    fastened upon himself any robe but piety.

  8. وبعول في أهل الزمان تكرما

    فكأنهم كانوا عليه عيالا

    And he supported the people of his age out of generosity,

    as though they were his dependents.

  9. باصارف الأهوال عنا من بنا

    خلفت بعدك يصرف الأهوالا

    O warder of terrors from us, whom among us

    have you left after you to ward off terrors?

  10. هل كيف لم تعول شريعة أحمد

    حزنا وكنت لها حمى وثمالا

    How has the sacred law of Ahmad not wailed

    in grief, when you were its sanctuary and refuge?

  11. ولكم ضربت من العلوم جواهرا

    مثلا فعزت في العلوم مثالا

    How often you fashioned jewels from the sciences,

    as exemplars, peerless as models in the sciences.

  12. ذهبت فضيلتها بكل فضيلة

    للعالمين أواخرا واوالا

    Their excellence outshone every excellence

    of all people, later and earlier alike.

  13. تنبيك عن حكم الجليل كأنما

    جبريل أنزل آيها انزالا

    They tell you of the Majestic One's rulings, as though

    Gabriel had sent down their verses in revelation.

  14. وكأنما خطت على ألواحها

    أٌلامه التفصيل والاجمالا

    And as though there were inscribed upon their tablets

    by his pens both detail and summary.

  15. تلك الجواهر ما وردت بحارها

    إلا سقتك نميرها السلسالا

    Those jewels—never did you approach their seas

    without their giving you their pure, flowing water to drink.

  16. كانت تلألأ في وجودك بهجة

    واليوم بعدك حزنها يتوالى

    They glittered with joy in your presence;

    and today, after you, their sorrow continues.

  17. لولا بنوك قضيت فيك وإنما

    شاهدت نورك فيهم يتلالا

    Were it not for your sons, I would have died mourning you; instead

    I saw your light glittering within them.

  18. هم صفوة المجد المؤثل والألى

    شرعوا حراما للورى وحلالا

    They are the choicest of deep-rooted glory, and those

    who set forth for mankind the forbidden and the lawful.

  19. قامت قنا الاسلام فيهم واكتسى

    أهلوه فيهم عزة وجلالا

    Through them Islam's lances stood upright, and

    its people were robed, through them, in might and majesty.

  20. كالندب ابراهيم والمولى الذي

    مدت يداه على الانام ضلالا

    Like the gallant Ibrahim, and the master whose

    two hands spread shade over mankind.

  21. وشقيقه عبد الحسين ومن به

    نالت بنو الدنيا أعز نوالا

    And his brother Abd al-Husayn, and the one through whom

    the children of this world gained the most precious bounty:

  22. قرم حوى ما في أبيه ولم يزل

    في كل شيء يحتذبه مثالا

    a chief who embodied all his father's qualities, and always

    took him as his model in everything.

  23. والماجد السبط الحسين معظم

    تعنو له عظماؤها إجلالا

    And the noble grandson al-Husayn, revered,

    before whom the world's great bow in reverence.

  24. واخي العلا الاسنى علي والذي

    عم الأنام بفضله افضالا

    And Ali, brother of the loftiest glory, and the one who

    lavished his gracious bounty upon all mankind.

  25. لكم التسلي بالتقي محمد

    أسخى بني الهادي وأكرم آلا

    You have consolation in the pious Muhammad,

    the most generous of al-Hadi's sons, and noblest in family,

  26. والمرنقي في العلم أعلى منزل

    لو طاولته النيرات لطالا

    and he who rose to the highest station in learning—

    were the shining stars to vie with his height, he would tower higher.

  27. علامة العلماء من أضحت له

    العلماء تسحب بالهنا أذيالا

    The scholars' great sage, the one for whom

    scholars have come to trail their robes in gladness.

  28. لا انفك صوب العفو يسقى تربة

    فيها انطوى الابكار والاصالا

    May the rain of pardon never cease to water the soil

    where he lies, at daybreak and at dusk.