1. راحَ الرِفاقُ وَلَم يَرُح مَرّارُ

    وَأَقامَ بَعدَ الظاعِنينَ وَساروا

    The companions departed, but Marrār did not depart.

    He remained behind those who left, while they journeyed on.

  2. لا تَبعَدَنَّ وَكُلُّ حَيٍّ هالِكٌ

    وَلِكُلِّ مَصرَعِ هالِكٍ مِقدارُ

    May you not be far away, though every living being must perish,

    And every mortal's death has its appointed time.

  3. كانَ الخِيارَ سِوى أَبيهِ وَعَمِّهِ

    وَلِكُلِّ قَومٍ سادَةٌ وَخِيارُ

    He was the finest, save for his father and his paternal uncle,

    And every people has its leaders and its finest men.

  4. لا يُسلِمونَ لَدى الحَوادِثِ جارَهُم

    وَهُمُ لِمَن خَشِيَ الحَوادِثَ جارُ

    They do not abandon their neighbor amid calamities,

    And they are a protecting neighbor to whoever fears calamities.

  5. وَأَقولُ مِن جَزَعٍ وَقَد فُتِنا بِهِ

    وَدُموعُ عَيني في الرِداءِ غِزارُ

    And I say in anguish, now that we have been afflicted by his loss,

    While tears from my eye fall thick upon my cloak,

  6. لِلدافِنينَ أَخا المَكارِمِ وَالنَدى

    لِلَّهِ ما ضَمِنَت بِكَ الأَحجارُ

    To those burying the brother of noble deeds and generosity:

    By God, how great is what the stones have enclosed with you!

  7. لَمّا غَدَوا بِأَغَرَّ أَروَعَ ماجِدٍ

    كَالبَدرِ تُستَسقى بِهِ الأَمطارُ

    When they set out in the morning with a radiant, awe-inspiring, noble man,

    Like the full moon, through whom prayers are made for rain,

  8. كادَت تَقَطَّعُ عِندَ ذَلِكَ حَسرَةً

    نَفسي وَقَد بَعُدَ الغَداةَ مَزارُ

    At that moment, almost torn apart by grief

    Was my soul, his resting place grown distant that morning.

  9. صَلّى الإِلَهُ عَلَيكَ مِن ذي حُفرَةٍ

    خَلَتِ الدِيارُ لَهُ فَهُنَّ قِفارُ

    May God bless you, dweller in a grave,

    Whose dwellings lie empty, now desolate wastes.

  10. وَسَقاكَ مِن نَوءِ الثُرَيّا عارِضٌ

    تَنهَلُّ مِنهُ ديمَةٌ مِدرارُ

    And may a cloud from the Pleiades' rain season water you,

    From which a steady, abundant rain pours down.