1. The people of Layka were destroyed at midday,
The winds of Hamiya and 'Aad blew with biting cold.

2. Be lenient if you gained victory in battle,
Or did your grandfather truthfully say you'll never prevail?

3. Chosroes' kingdom was broken by its breaking,
And the palace bent under the haughtiness of Caesar.

4. Do not praise or blame a man,
Among us there is no slack one like the slack one.

5. I have become decrepit, my body won't heal
Until it returns to its original composition.

6. And if it returns to it, my bones
Will be dust scattered over the ages.

7. God, exalted, created us perfectly,
What cannot be seen by a listener or observer.

8. There were days when Kufa was not a garrison
For one stationed or Basra for one observing.

9. How much vanishing time made the girls grow old,
The sun rises like a tightly wrapped maiden.

10. Reason is amazed by sanctimonious behaviour,
And by affectation, Judaizing, and Christianizing.

11. So beware and don't neglect matters,
And look with a thinking, observant heart.

12. For if the soul is freed from its prison,
It is as if it was never confined in its person.

13. Elongation at the waist is due to some condition,
Like shortness in the thumb and little finger.