وقفتُ على قبر العزيز بن يوسفٍ

وقفتُ على قبر العزيز بن يوسفٍ

وقوف الفتي الصادي على المنهلِ العذبِ

وقوف الفتي الصادي على المنهلِ العذبِ

I stood at the grave of al-Aziz ibn Yusuf,

I stood at the grave of the dear Ibn Yusuf

As a thirsty youth stands at a sweet watering place.

Like a young man standing at a sweet spring

فلم أقضهِ حقَّ السماحة والندى

فلم أقضهِ حقَّ السماحة والندى

ولا حقَّ هاتيكَ البشاشةِ والقُربِ

ولا حقَّ هاتيكَ البشاشةِ والقُربِ

Yet I did not do justice to his generosity and bounty,

I did not do justice to his kindness and softness

Nor to that smiling warmth and closeness.

Or his cheerfulness and intimacy

سلامٌ على الدنيا الدنية بعده

سلامٌ على الدنيا الدنية بعده

فأحداثها تُصمي ولذاتها تُصبي

فأحداثها تُصمي ولذاتها تُصبي

Farewell to the base world after his passing!

Peace on the lowly world after him

For its calamities strike dead, and its pleasures beguile.

Its events deafen and its pleasures make one dizzy

ولو كنتُ ذا قلبٍ لصدني الأسى

ولو كنتُ ذا قلبٍ لصدني الأسى

عن القلب لكني بقيتُ بلا قلبِ

عن القلب لكني بقيتُ بلا قلبِ

And had I a heart, grief would have turned me away

If I had a heart, sorrow would have prevented me

From that heart—but I remained without a heart.

From the heart, but I remained without a heart

وسكن ندبي بعد طول جماحِهِ

وسكن ندبي بعد طول جماحِهِ

على الجائدِ الوهابِ والفارس الندب

على الجائدِ الوهابِ والفارس الندب

And what stilled my lament after its long wild course

And my elegy settled after its long fervor

For the generous, lavish giver and gallant horseman

Upon the generous, granting, and elegy-inspiring knight

يقيني بأن الموت للخلق غايةٌ

يقيني بأن الموت للخلق غايةٌ

وأن المنايا موردُ العجم والعُربِ

وأن المنايا موردُ العجم والعُربِ

Was my certainty that death is the end of all creatures,

My certainty that death is the destination of creation

And that death is the watering place of non-Arabs and Arabs.

And that demise is the place of non-Arabs and Arabs