1. يا جفنُ أمزجْ أدمعي بدمائي

    وأشهدْ بها لملوكنا الشهداء

    O eyelid, mingle my tears with my blood,

    and with them bear witness for our martyred kings.

  2. لهفي على ملكينِ جادَ عليهما

    في كلِّ أرض أفقُ كلّ سماء

    Alas for two kings, upon whom has rained,

    in every land, the horizon of every sky.

  3. لهفي لإسماعيل قبلَ محمدٍ

    لم أُلق يوم دراهما لفداء

    Alas for Ismail before Muhammad:

    I was not offered on the day of [their deaths] as ransom.

  4. أما ذبيحا مقلتي ومدامعي

    لهما فما وفيا بفيض دماء

    As for the two sacrifices—my eye and my tears—

    offered for them, neither has paid its due with a flood of blood.

  5. بحرانِ أسندُ عن يزيدَ وواصلٍ

    لهما وأروي عن رجا وعطاء

    Two seas: I transmit from Yazid and Wasil

    concerning them, and narrate from Raja and Ata.

  6. ذهبا فلا ذهبٌ أناديه سوى

    ما صاغ خدِّي باحمرارِ بكائي

    They have gone; no gold remains for me to call upon except

    what my cheek has fashioned from the redness of my weeping.

  7. نم يا محمد مع أبيكَ فإنه

    ما رثَّ لا وأبيكَ عهدُ رثائي

    Sleep, O Muhammad, beside your father; for indeed

    my pledge of lament has not grown threadbare—no, by your father!