أيها العصر الذي

أيها العصر الذي

باينته المكرمات

باينته المكرمات

O age that

O age whose

noble deeds have forsaken:

virtues have faded

ساوت الأيام في

ساوت الأيام في

ك الليالي المظلمات

ك الليالي المظلمات

the days have become, in

Whose days and

you, equal to the dark nights.

nights are all the same

فات منه المسلم

فات منه المسلم

ين الهدى ثم المسلمات

ين الهدى ثم المسلمات

Muslim men have lost his

The righteous men

guidance, and then Muslim women too.

and women are gone

وابكه للمشكلا

وابكه للمشكلا

ت الصعاب المبهمات

ت الصعاب المبهمات

And weep for him over the problems,

It weeps for the

difficult and obscure.

hardships and trials

واستمع تاريخه

واستمع تاريخه

شمسك العلام مات

شمسك العلام مات

And hear his chronogram:

Hear its history

Your sun, the great scholar, has died.

Your guiding sun has died