1. I surveyed a place in old age after
Surveying it as a child long ago as a youth

2. So remind me of those years that have passed
When life was counting to nine in age

3. I pictured it until I imagined myself in it
And imagination will not bring back what is not returning

4. Twenty seven pilgrimages have passed since
I imagined and they slipped by

5. I am that child, mother and father
And among the family I was the fourth brother

6. Today he has a daughter and a sister from a father
And two aunts, count with his wife as the seventh

7. And no parents, O quarter in you, have
Fulfilled their nation and time makes one forget tragedies

8. I remembered them and man revives with his remembrance
So why do I cry and lament the quarters

9. I remembered my mother with it, I remembered my father with it
I remembered with it an era that passed consecutively

10. I remembered with it that boy and he was
None other than me, and today I saw him grown up

11. He embodied in my persona so I am none but him
And he is none but me, so he vanished and appeared together

12. As if, though I am in old age watching
That old man in front of me, if I live longer

13. And after it is nothing but resting in the soil
And a day you will see it as a successor for the caliph