1. People will ask what Quraysh and Mecca are
As people asked what Jadis and Tasm were

2. I see time destroying souls with its vanishing
And erasing whatever remains of talk and inscription

3. Indeed the people of the two encampments exerted themselves and then perished
A building for which no trace of its builder remains

4. And in this deluded world there is a stingy rich man
And a generous poor man, how different is their share!

5. And a young man being with his tribe brings honor
Though the malady of fate has no remedy

6. And a man's body is mocked until when he goes
To the earthen element, the body is not mocked