1. Patience, beautiful patience, perhaps and maybe
The bond of love will leaf out after it withered

2. And time is harsh, its heart is hard
Perhaps time's heart will soften after it hardened

3. He wronged me after treating me well
If only he would treat me well after wronging me

4. He unleashed my tears after binding them
And said, take from it a arid road

5. He let me drink from sorrow's cup
I hastened to distance myself, having drunk my fill

6. O time, how much you have rubbed me raw in my homeland
You saw in it a lame old camel

7. Not turning away from the goal it seeks
Or attaining the goal by nature most unyielding

8. His father built a house of guidance
While he erected what his father had founded

9. Of youths whose father was Ali
And their mother Fatima, best of all women

10. They related the hadith of merit from their grandfather
And their grandfather related it from the people of endurance

11. No dawn has broken over likes of them
Pillars of forbearance, no, nor has evening fallen

12. From each bright-browed light
The light of sun borrowed a flint

13. No night has gloomed over their hopes
Except their generosity dawned breathing

14. And should a complex issue be knotted
The loosing of its knot was a fine healer

15. O fate, keep close to them a soul
Count the whole of life as that soul

16. After them you delivered me over to grief
After them you delivered me over to grief