Weeping, even if prolonged, does not suffice; The calamity is greater in value than my tears. By God, time has neither wronged nor transgressed With a loss more noble and more painful.

He departed to the mercy of God (a trace of God’s mercy upon me), and went to the realms of God’s kindness (a trace of God’s kindness upon me) – the saint by God’s permission – the pious, pure, God-knowing Hashemite, the pearl of my necklace, my master, my teacher, and my father after my father, the Sheikh of the Hadith scholars and servant of the noble Muhammadan sandals, the trustworthy; Professor Dr. Omar Hashem – may God bless his soul and reward him as he rewarded all people – the Muhammadan inheritor, my master.