1. Patience, patience, for in patience lies salvation
To make bearable what can be made bearable

2. Do not despair at what has transpired
Take what cannot transpire

3. And leave yearning behind
For yearning has never brought back the yearned

4. And stop knocking your head against a wall
For no wall was ever knocked down by a forehead

5. And when you look back at what
We have been deprived of through death

6. And at your father, for he is to us
A mountain, an eternal fortress

7. So loss is gain, reconciliation
And the harshness of days becomes gentle

8. The north wind has passed and
The right hand, gentle with us, remains

9. And a branch, which has branches for this world,
Remains with us from you

10. So if we thirst for lack of rain
We have the fresh, sweet well

11. And if a lion that belonged to us is gone
The lion remains and the lair

12. Eyes may stay if they remain
And may shed tears if they do not

13. You are for us the abode of glory
And you are the firm rope

14. And through your family's sanctity
We have the life of this world and of faith according to our wishes

15. You are guides in perplexity
And you are the clear truth

16. You are swords in events
That misfortune cannot touch

17. And when you are provoked, that provocation
Is for you the safe sanctuary

18. And the two holy places, and Zamzam
And the black stone and the guarded tablet

19. Who, do you think, did tribulation
Spare, and the mournful fate of time?

20. The sentence of death is an intricate one
For which generations have died grieving

21. It spared no brave man among men, nor any loved one
And love of this life, what an insanity is its crime!

22. O soul that found peace and priceless treasure
O son whom the centuries have not seen the like of his glory

23. He unified the horizons and the nearby lands
As one, needing no other's help

24. Replace your sorrow with that of another
Perhaps the sorrowful may regret

25. And ignore regard for certainty
Since certainty may sometimes harm

26. For life cannot be sweetened
Except by safety or uncertainty

27. May God bless him whose eyelids
Were wounded by the place of his death

28. He mixed with dust, and none
Resembles him, not a companion nor a namesake

29. The rain clouds watered the sides of his grave
The humming of the spilling rain a song

30. Shed tears over it, for if they flow
Sorrows will be carried in their streams