أمسى ضريحك موطن الغفران

ومحل وفد ملائك الرحمان

Your tomb has become the abode of forgiveness,

And a place of pilgrimage for the angels of the Most Merciful.

حيا المهيمن منك روحا مذ علت

حييت بذاك الروح والريحان

The All-Powerful revived a spirit from you when you ascended,

You were brought to life by that spirit and sweet basil.

وتبوأت غرف الجنان وجوزيت

فيها على الإحسان بالإحسان

You assumed rooms in the Gardens and were married

To the fairest maidens as a reward for your righteousness.

وتلقيت بتحية وأتت لها

تحف الجنان على يدي رضوان

You were greeted and brought gifts from the Gardens

By the hand of Ridwan.

واستبشرت بقدومها أملاكها

وسعى لها رضوان بالرضوان

Its angels rejoiced at your arrival,

And Ridwan rushed to welcome you.

روح لها حور الجنان تشوقت

حبا لها كتشوق الولدان

The houris of the Gardens longed for your spirit

Loving it as children do.

كانت لها الدنيا محلا أولا

والجنة العليا محلا ثان

The world was your first abode,

And the Highest Paradise your second.

لا شيء بعدك يا علي من الورى

حسن بعين بصيرتي وعياني

After you, O Ali, there is nothing in creation

Fairer in my discerning and seeing eye.

سقيا لمعهدك الذي قد شاقني

ومحل منزلك الذي أبكاني

I weep for the institute which has wearied me,

And the place of your repose which makes me weep.

قبر عليه من العلوم مهابة

تبدو وأنس تلاوة القرآن

A grave over which there is an awe of knowledge

Visible, and the intimacy of reciting the Qur'an can be sensed.

ناديته فأجابني بعلومه

مستبشرا فكأنه ناداني

I called out to it and it responded to me with its knowledge,

Happy, as if it had called out to me.

من للمذاهب والمواهب عندما

يخشى ظهور الفقر والحرمان

When the manifestations of poverty and deprivation are feared,

Who has the ways and gifts?

ومدارس العلم التي قد أصبحت

وكأنهم دواوس البنيان

The schools of knowledge which have become

Like the axes of buildings.

من بعد ما قد كان في أفلاكها

شمسا يشار لنحوها بنيان

After there had been within its spheres

A sun pointed out by every builder.

يأبى الجواب فما يراجع هيبة

والسائلون نواكس الأذقان

It disdains to answer, so reverence does not return,

And the questioners hang their heads.

ما خف فوق صراطه إلا وقد

ثقلت له الحسنات في الميزان

Nothing difficult crossed its bridge unless

Good deeds became weighty for it in the Scale.

في حالتي حفظ الشريعة والندى

سيف على الجاني وروض الجاني

In my state, following the Law and guidance,

A sword against the offender and a meadow for the penitent.

إن صال وقت البحث قلنا هكذا

فليفعل الأقران بالأقران

If a peer deliberates, we say thus:

Let the peers act towards peers in this way.

إن أجريت مستنبطات علومه

وقف البرية موقف الإذعان

If I apply his extracted learnings,

Humanity would acknowledge it completely.

كم شبهة كالليل يعدو لبسها

فيردها كالصبح بالبرهان

How many doubts donned the garb of night,

Which he dispelled like the dawn with proof.

أبكيك يوم تنازع الخصمين في

شك يحار بأمره الخصمان

I weep for you on the day when two adversaries disputed

A confusing matter, bewildering them both.

يا شمس طال الليل بعد مغيبها

كيف الصباح وأنت في الأكفان

O Sun, the night has lasted long after your setting,

How can morning come when you lie in your grave?

يا ثاني الفجرين بل يا ثالث القمرين

بل يا واحد الأزمان

O Second of the two dawns! Nay, O Third of the two full moons!

Nay, O One of all times!

يمضي الجديد من الزمان وحزننا

باق على قدم الزمان الفاني

What is new in time passes, while our sorrow

Remains, enduring as transient time.

قف بالقبور وناد فيها نادبا

من كان في شغل عن الحدثان

Stop at the graves and call into them mournfully,

"Who is distracted from preparation?"

أين الذين إذا هم عقدوا الحبى

حلوا بأرفع رتبة ومكان

Where are those who, when they consulted closely,

Assumed the highest rank and position?

قوم إذا حضروا مجالس علمهم

حكمت عمائمهم على التيجان

A people, when they attended his councils of knowledge,

Their turbans judging the crowns.

قم باكيا متأوها مسترجعا

لمصاب هذا العالم الرباني

Arise weeping, sighing, recalling

This tribulation which has befallen the Godly man.

أعظم بيوم مصابه من مصرع

في مصر حل بسائر البلدان

His death in Egypt had a greater impact

Than events in all other lands.

حبر له بالشام أعظم موقع

ساق العداء إلى شج حران

An inkwell whose stature in Syria

Brought hostility razing Harran.

أدى البريد نعيه فيها فيا

فضل الأصم على ذوي الآذان

The post conveyed news of his death, so listen!

The deaf are superior to those with ears.

أعزز علي بأن أصوغ رثاء من

كان المديح لبابه من شاني

I find it hard to compose an elegy for one

Whose praise was always my task.

أهدي إليه طيبات تحية

من عبده القاصي المحل الداني

I present to him the sweet scent of a greeting

From his servant, the judge, the humble petitioner.

وأزور بالتسليم تربة قبره

متتابع العبرات والأشجان

And I visit the earth of his grave continuously

With tears and laments.

قبر لثمت تراه فتعرفت

في تربه الأنفاس عرف جنان

A grave which when you kiss its soil

The breaths recognise the scent of Paradise.

لا زال عفو الله في أرجائه

هامي السحائب دائم الهملان

God's pardon still pervades its corners,

Sheltering clouds perpetually gather there.