1. Avoid people and live alone
Do not wrong others, nor be wronged

2. I found your world, though it was kind to me
It could not help but make me stumble

3. If al-Mansur were revived, he would cry out
"O city of peace, you are not safe!"

4. The Abbasids rest in their graves
While the kingdom has passed to the Buyids

5. Had I known their future troubles
I would not have killed Abu Muslim

6. He served the state with good counsel
Yet was clothed in the garb of great sin

7. As long as it is not God who endures
Then rage at fate or resign yourself

8. You roamed the horizons for a time but
Your dark clouds yielded no clear sky

9. You asked people but found none
To guide you rightly to a signpost

10. So be patient with the arrogant fool
For the eye, should it meet disdain, bears it calmly

11. Indeed, the death of the coward in his fear
Is like the death of the valiant warrior