1. Death, from which there is no refuge or escape
When a person is laid in his grave, another mounts

2. We see with the eye of certainty, it is a fact
Over it a child, a grown up and an old have passed

3. Yet our souls are in denial, as if
We reject what we know as certain

4. We hope for hopes and wish for their fruits
While loss is closer than what we wish for

5. And we build towering castles in the air
Though we know we will die and they will ruin

6. And we strive to gather wealth, legally and sinfully
While the far and the near will contain it

7. We are questioned about it inwardly and then outwardly
And how we spent it and from where it was earned

8. In it a contented inheritor is happy
While another plays in it wretchedly

9. And the first regret to appear to a squanderer
Is when hardship intensifies and the soul is seized

10. He fears the book of reckoning and wishes
If only he could return to the world, but it's an impossible wish

11. And every organ will testify to his deeds
Nothing is hidden from the Almighty

12. When it is said, "You knew, so what did you do?"
And everything is recorded in the book

13. "And what did you earn in youth and in health?
When your breaths in it are counted?"

14. Oh, I wonder what we will say and how we
Will respond, when the matter then is most difficult

15. To God we complain of the hardness in our hearts
And the preacher of death laments everyday

16. And how many dear ones and companions, God,
We bid farewell to their graves as tears pour

17. A brother, intimate or refined, diligent
In advising people and he persists

18. Dust pours over him as if he is
An enemy, though affection burns inside

19. He quenched a grave, and abundant grace rains
Upon the son of Ahmed, the evening reciter

20. Forgiveness and success and pleasure bring him down
He is encircled by elixir and drinks

21. He was a joy in the chests of gatherings
Eyes would gaze at him and hearts would awe

22. Sometimes you see him warning and cautioning
The consequences sins bring and attract

23. And sometimes reminding with blessings
And sometimes enticing to the abode of bliss

24. He was not distracted from this by trade or travel
Yes, he was passionate in building glory through generosity

25. If souls could be ransomed, no price too high,
We would ransom souls for what he sought

26. But when the appointed time ends, fate's decree prevails
And none can escape what God has ordained

27. A brother he was, excellent in assisting me in piety
Through him worries would dissipate and depart

28. Sometimes with news of the Messenger and his companions
And sometimes with refined manners that allure and wound

29. My life passed like this, and his life too
Pure, we do not exaggerate or fabricate

30. And the situation is just as one past said
Proverbs on people are coined

31. For every gathering of two friends there is separation
Even if between them life was pleasant and potable

32. And after this, there is mustering, dispersal and stopping
A day in which the sinner is clad in humiliation

33. When each flees from his father and mother
Like this, not even the mother looks at him, nor the father

34. And how many unjust, bite their hands in agony
"Oh my sorrow! Where can I go?"

35. When his creditors divide his deeds among themselves
And it is said to him, "This is for what you used to earn"

36. And for him, after he is laden with their burdens and tormented
A scroll to hell is fastened

37. And how many say, "Woe to us! If only we
Could return to the world remorseful and reverent."

38. While we are not in the abode of bliss but
We were infatuated with a vanishing, fleeting world

39. So motivate the steeds of setting forth
To God and the home which will not ruin

40. For the coming is near and the past is distant
And this is the cawing of separation in the lands

41. My God, bless whom the brush scribbled
Or the ardent lover cooed, the melodious pigeon

42. Upon the master of masters and all his family
And his companions for as long as stars shine