والبائتة في الثرى ببقعتك [ ببقيعك ] المختار الله لها سرعة اللحاق بك ، قل يا رسول الله عن صفيتك صبري وضعف عن سيدة النساء تجلدي ، إلا أن في التأسي لي بسنتك والحزن الذي حل بي لفراقك لموضع التعزي ولقد وسدتك في ملحود قبرك بعد أن فاضت نفسك على صدري وغمضتك بيدي وتوليت أمرك بنفسي .
and she who lies this night in the dust in your plot [a variant: in your Baqi'], whom God chose for swiftness of joining you. My patience, O Messenger of God, has grown little for your chosen one, and my endurance has weakened for the Mistress of Women. Except that in taking your way as my pattern, and in the sorrow that has come upon me at parting from you, there is a place of consolation. For I laid you down in the niche of your grave after your soul had flowed out upon my breast, and I closed your eyes with my hand and undertook your affair myself.
نعم وفي كتاب الله أنعم القبول إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون قد استرجعت الوديعة وأخذت الرهينة واختلست الزهراء فما أقبح الخضراء والغبراء يا رسول الله ، أما حزني فسرمد وأما ليلي فمسهد ، لا يبرح الحزن من قلبي أو يختار الله لي دارك التي فيها أنت مقيم كمد 21 مقيح وهم مهيج ، سرعان ما فرق الله بيننا وإلى الله أشكو وستنبئك ابنتك بتظافر أمتك علي وعلى هضمها حقها فاستخبرها الحال فكم من غليل معتلج بصدرها لم تجد إلى بثه سبيلا ، وستقول : * ( ويحكم الله بيننا وهو خير الحاكمين ) * .
Yes, and in the Book of God is the fairest acceptance: truly we belong to God and truly to Him we return. The trust has been taken back and the pledge has been seized; and al-Zahra' has been snatched away. How ugly are the green sky and the dusty earth, O Messenger of God! As for my sorrow, it is unending; and as for my night, it is sleepless. Sorrow shall not leave my heart until God chooses for me your abode in which you dwell — a festering grief [21] and a stirring care. How swiftly has God parted us! And to God I complain. And your daughter shall tell you of your community's banding together against me and against her, wronging her of her right; so ask her of the state. For how much burning was surging in her breast for which she found no way to pour it out! And she shall say: “And God shall judge between us, and He is the best of judges.”
سلام عليك يا رسول الله ، سلام مودع لا سأم ولا قال فإن أنصرف فلا عن ملالة وإن أقم فلا عن سوء ظن بما وعد الله الصابرين ، الصبر أيمن وأجمل ، ولولا غلبة المستولين علينا لجعلت المقام عند قبرك لزاما والتلبث عنده معكوفا ولأعولت إعوال الثكلى على جليل الرزية ، فبعين الله تدفن بنتك سرا ويهتضم حقها قهرا ويمنع إرثها جهرا ولم يطل العهد ولم يخلق منك الذكر ، وإلى [ فإلى ] الله يا رسول الله المشتكى وفيك أجمل العزاء صلى الله عليه وآله ورحمة الله وبركاته 22 .
Peace be upon you, O Messenger of God — the peace of one taking leave, not of one wearied nor of one who detests. For if I turn away, it is not out of weariness; and if I stay, it is not out of ill thought concerning what God has promised the patient. Patience is more blessed and more comely. And but for the overpowering of those who have gained mastery over us, I would have made my stay at your grave a binding thing and my tarrying beside it a retreat, and I would have wailed the wailing of the bereaved mother at the greatness of the affliction. So before the eye of God is your daughter buried in secret, and her right wronged by force, and her inheritance withheld openly; and the covenant is not long past, nor has the memory of you worn out. And to God, O Messenger of God, is the complaint; and in you is the fairest consolation. May God bless him and his Family, and the mercy of God and His blessings. [22]
ولقد أجاد من قال : ولأي الأمور تدفن سرا * بضعة المصطفى ويعفى ثراها فمضت وهي أعظم الناس شجوا * في فم الدهر غصة [ عضة ] من حواها وثوت لا ترى لها الناس * مثوى أي قدس يضمه مثواها
And excellently did he say who said: — And for what cause is a portion of the Chosen One — buried in secret, and her earth effaced? — So she passed away, the greatest of people in grief, — a bitterness [a variant: a bite] in the mouth of time for him who contained her. — And she dwelt where the people do not see a dwelling for her — what sanctity her dwelling-place enfolds!