أَلَم تَرَ أَنَّ خَيرَ النَّاسِ أَودى

أَلَم تَرَ أَنَّ خَيرَ النَّاسِ أَودى

فَيا للنَّاس للحَدَث العَظيمِ

فَيا للنَّاس للحَدَث العَظيمِ

Have you not seen that the best of men has perished?

Have you not seen that the best of people are most benevolent

So, O people, alas for this great calamity!

So woe to people for the momentous event

جَزاكَ اللَّهُ يَومَ فَقَدتَ عَنّا

جَزاكَ اللَّهُ يَومَ فَقَدتَ عَنّا

جَزاءَ الوالِدِ البَرِّ الرَّحيمِ

جَزاءَ الوالِدِ البَرِّ الرَّحيمِ

May God reward you, on the day you were lost to us,

May Allah reward you on the day we lost you

With the reward due a kind and merciful father.

With the reward of the righteous and merciful parent

وُليتَ فَلَم تَزَل حَيّاً وَمَيتاً

وُليتَ فَلَم تَزَل حَيّاً وَمَيتاً

عَلى نَهجِ الطَّريقِ المُستَقيمِ

عَلى نَهجِ الطَّريقِ المُستَقيمِ

You were appointed ruler and remained, in life and death,

If only you had lived, and even when deceased

On the course of the straight path.

Followed the straight path as you did in life

وَوَلَّيتَ الخِلافَةَ سايسيها

وَوَلَّيتَ الخِلافَةَ سايسيها

فَلا حكش وَلا اِبن أَبي حَكيمِ

فَلا حكش وَلا اِبن أَبي حَكيمِ

And you entrusted the caliphate to its governors—

You entrusted the caliphate to one fit to rule it

Thus, neither Ḥaksh nor Ibn Abī Ḥakīm.

Not Hakim’s son nor a Habashi usurper