1. What is with this unjust fate
That withdrew, yet its tyranny remained near

2. And the world is but a whore
Who shows off her decorations to the adulterer

3. Until when he is fooled by her prosperity
She inclines to rejection and estrangement

4. This is the pillar of the kingdom, he who
No page of history lacked mention of him

5. No rebel disobeyed his rule
Except he donned the coat of humiliation

6. No era afflicted him except he saw
Himself in the attire of a human

7. As if in his ring wherever he gestured with it
Was the seal ring of Solomon

8. The pillars of the state were erected by his hand
Then the greatest edifice collapsed

9. Its parts scattered across the land
Held hostage in various towns and countries

10. Jibb seized his treasures in Khorasan
That mortal king Toghril

11. And the silk of Merv flowed from his neck
Saffron-dyed soaked in his blood

12. While his figure lies in a coffin
Behind screens and shrouds

13. And his head flew because of him
Falling on his perfect corpse

14. They left Nishapur deprived of him
And his bare skulls in Kerman

15. Judgment belongs to the Almighty in what He decreed
And every day He is doing something

16. So do not struggle in the haze of demise
And be content with what the days hand you