1. من ناشد لي بأرض الري سكانها

    حدا بها البين ليت البين لا كانا

    Who will seek out for me the inhabitants of the land of Rayy?

    Separation drove them away; would that separation had never been!

  2. خفت ظعائنهم عني وما علموا

    أحشاي حفت بذاك الظعن أظعانا

    Their camel litters sped away from me, and they did not know

    My entrails thronged around that departure, themselves caravans.

  3. أذلت دمعي على أطلالهم أسفاً

    فكلما عز قبل اليوم قد هانا

    I shed my tears over their ruins in sorrow;

    All that was precious before today has now been brought low.

  4. فالمنحنى وغضا وادي العقيق غدت

    مني ضلوعاً وأحشاءاً وأجفانا

    The bend and the ghada trees of Wadi al-Aqiq have become

    My own ribs, entrails, and eyelids.

  5. ما الدرار بعدكم داراً ولا وطني

    يا منزلاً ولا السكان سكانا

    The dwelling is no dwelling after you, nor my homeland a homeland;

    O dwelling, nor are the inhabitants inhabitants.

  6. يا للعشيرة من دنياً إذا سمحت

    بالوصل حيناً محت بالهجر أحيانا

    O clan, help against a world that, when it grants

    Union awhile, erases it with spells of estrangement.

  7. وإن سخت فسخت أو واصلت فصلت

    أو سالمت أسلمت ظلماً وعدوانا

    And if it gives generously, it revokes; if it joins, it severs;

    Or if it makes peace, it abandons you unjustly and aggressively.

  8. وإن عدتك عدت أوجاورتك ورت

    وإن حلت انحلت صداً وهجرانا

    And if it promises you, it attacks; if it neighbors you, it kindles fire.

    And if it settles, it unravels into rejection and estrangement.

  9. حتى أناخت على العليا بقارعة

    هدت من البين بيت اللَه أركانا

    Till it knelt upon high honor with a shattering calamity

    That, through separation, smashed the pillars of God's House,

  10. وفرقت من لوي شمل عزتها

    وطوقت بسماة الضيم عدنانا

    And scattered the unity of Lu'ayy's honor,

    And collared Adnan with the mark of humiliation.

  11. يا ناعياً للمعالي شمس دارتها

    اللَه فيهن فارحمها وإيانا

    O herald telling high honors of the death of their sphere's sun,

    Fear God for their sake; have mercy on them and on us.

  12. خرست لو تدري من تنعاه ما خطرت

    لك المسرة أو سامرت ندمانا

    May you fall mute! Had you known whom you mourn, never would

    Joy have come to you, nor would you have talked with a boon companion.

  13. نعيت باقرها علماً وشامخها

    حلماً وأعظمها بين الورى شانا

    You mourned their Baqir in learning, their towering figure

    In forbearance, and their greatest in standing among mankind.

  14. نعيته فالمساعي الغر نادبة

    له وأمسى أثيل المجد ولهانا

    You announced his death; glorious endeavors lament

    For him, and deep-rooted glory has grown distraught.

  15. رزية خطبها ألقى كلاكله

    بأصبهان فعم الخطب إيرانا

    A calamity whose blow pressed its crushing chest

    Upon Isfahan; the calamity spread through all Iran.

  16. وسيرت شعلاً ترمي لها شرراً

    على العراق كسا الآفاق أحزانا

    And sent forth flames, hurling their sparks

    Over Iraq, clothing the horizons in sorrows.

  17. يا تارك الملة الغراء من أسفٍ

    عليه تلتحف الأشجان ألوانا

    O you who left the radiant faith, grieving

    Over him, cloaking itself in sorrows of every hue.

  18. قد كنت في كف شرع اللَه صارمه

    تذود عنه ذلالات وبهتانا

    You were, in the palm of God's law, its sharp sword,

    Repelling error and slander from it.

  19. مدارس بك أحيينا دوارسها

    عفت فها نحن ننعاها وتنعانا

    Schools whose effaced remains we revived through you

    Have vanished; now we mourn them, and they mourn us.

  20. شريعة أنت منها بدر هالتها

    قد عالجت من ظلام الجهل أشجانا

    The sacred law, whose halo's full moon you were,

    Has wrestled with sorrows from ignorance's darkness.

  21. وملة كنت تحمي عز ساحتها

    قاست برغم الهدى ذلاً وخذلانا

    And the faith, whose realm's honor you guarded,

    Has endured humiliation and abandonment, despite guidance.

  22. ومقلة بك قرت في هدىً ونداً

    أمست عليك تذيل الدمع هتانا

    And an eye that found cool comfort in you, in guidance and generosity,

    Now pours streaming tears for you.

  23. يا راحلاً ترك الأرزاء مقبلةٍ

    وراقداً ترك الإسلام يقظانا

    O departed one, who left calamities advancing,

    And sleeping one, who left Islam wide awake,

  24. إنا نحييك بالشكوى إليك أسىً

    يا ليته سمع الشكوى فحيانا

    We greet you by complaining to you in sorrow;

    Would that he had heard the complaint and greeted us!

  25. ليهنك اليوم أن أصبحت في ملأ

    قد أصبحو في نعيم اللَه إخوانا

    May it gladden you today that you have joined a company

    Who have become brothers in God's bliss.

  26. فللمعالي البقا في سادة لبست

    بهم شريعة آل اللَه تيجانا

    Thus high honors endure in masters; clothed

    Through them in crowns is the law of God's household.

  27. مهديها أسد اللَه الذي شمخت

    به مساعيه حتى مجاز كيوانا

    Its Mahdi, the lion of God, through whom soared

    His endeavors, up to Kaywan's course.

  28. علم يريك الخفايا من أشعته

    ومن شمائله روحاً وريحانا

    A beacon whose rays reveal hidden things to you,

    And whose virtues bring repose and fragrant basil.

  29. ما سيم في سوق أهل الفضل مكرمةً

    إلا اشتراها بأغلى السوم أثمانا

    No noble deed was offered in the market of the virtuous

    But he bought it at the highest asking price.

  30. صبراً أبا القاسم السامي السهى شرفاً

    فالصبر ينقب أهل الصبر رضوانا

    Patience, Abu al-Qasim, surpassing Suha in nobility,

    For patience brings divine favor to the patient.

  31. حللت من كل مجدٍ في محاجره

    فكنت أنت بعين المجد إنسانا

    You have taken your place in the eye sockets of every glory,

    And become the very pupil of glory's eye.

  32. أنتم بني الحسب الوضاح لا معةً

    فيكم زها المجد أنواراً وأصانا

    You, sons of illustrious lineage, are radiant;

    In you glory has blossomed, in flowers and boughs.

  33. إن غاض بحر هدىً منك فإن بكم

    أمسى الهدى مطمئن الحاش ريانا

    If a sea of guidance has ebbed from you, then through you all

    Guidance has become tranquil at heart, its thirst quenched.

  34. لولا عليم به شمس الهدى بزغت

    ما رمت لا وأبيكم عند سلوانا

    Were it not for a learned man through whom guidance's sun has risen,

    I would not—no, by your father—have sought consolation.

  35. غوث المروعة بل غيث المريعة بل

    كاسي الشريقة إيضاحاً وتبيانا

    Succor for the terrified, nay, rain for fertile land, nay,

    One who clothes the sacred law in clarity and explanation.

  36. طرفه في يد العافي وتالده

    كأنما اتخذ العافين خزانا

    His new wealth lies in the supplicant's hand, and his inherited wealth,

    As though he had made supplicants his treasurers.

  37. فضل إذا تليت آيات معجزه

    فالبجواهر حسب العقل برهانا

    An excellence—when the verses of its miracle are recited,

    The Jewels are proof enough for reason.

  38. يولي الجواهر داجي رفده فغدت

    قرى جواهره فينا وقرآنا

    He lavishes his dense bounty on the Jewels, and so

    His jewels become a feast among us, and a Qur'an.

  39. ومدرجاً بين أثواب محبرةً

    منسوجة من ثناء اللَه أكفانا

    And O one wrapped in embroidered cloths,

    Woven from God's praise into shrouds,

  40. وثاوياً في رياض من مفاخره

    نفس فيه على الجوزاء أوطانا

    And O one dwelling in gardens of his glorious deeds,

    With dwellings there begrudged even to al-Jawza.

  41. خدمت ربك فاستخدمت في الملأ

    الأعلى ملائك أو حوراً وولدانا

    You served your Lord, and so took into your service, in the assembly

    On high, angels, or houris and boys.

  42. لا زال قبرك يهمي فوق روضته

    سحائب الغيث رضواناً وغفرانا

    May there forever pour above the garden of your grave

    Rain clouds of divine favor and forgiveness.