1. God is eternal while all else perishes
And death cannot be reversed or eluded

2. So see that in this life you walk a narrow ledge
As time ravages even mountains solid and rigid

3. It flung the pearls into the abode of loss
When it eroded them till no luster remained hid

4. This is Muhammad, the universally praised
Who left the times unlike any commended

5. What share of grace is now severed?
What pillar of Islam lies now demolished?

6. The second Abbasid heir and his inheritor
Left worldly goods, knowledge, merits undefeated

7. He left nothing that he used to own
Except homes like the likeness of mosques

8. He who rejects not the plea of one in need
Nor is seen as the next in kindness and bounty

9. Let him be mourned by all who crave his aid
And those barred from his doors, forcibly precluded

10. He preceded in voluntary and obligatory acts
Over our shining moons, luminous as lamps

11. Never have I seen the guiding lights gathered
Except that they conferred authority onto him amidst