1. Every mention after it is forgetfulness
And vestiges and beings disappear

2. Verily this life is but toil
So let experience inform you of its pain

3. Dust feels no weight when still
Nor does water weary the flow

4. A soul after its like continues
And so ages and times pass

5. Ruins have accumulated into decay
And religions are confused in misguidance

6. You are in the plain, yet needy of the retaining ropes
Or on the path, yet without steadfastness

7. My patience was long, so it was said I am mute out of self-restraint
Yet I am a vociferous orator

8.
I am blind, so how can I be guided to the path

9. While all people are blind
A staff is better for the blind man

10. Than a guide within whom is immorality and disobedience
And men have claimed guidance among people

11. Yet it is clear to me their guidance is tyranny
A revolving celestial sphere that refused its young men

12. Either intent or dispersing the youth
And souls aspire to inheritance, yet the sole heir

13. Is the Ever-Dominant, the Reckoner
And the vegetation of a land within it is the rain

14. And from it, the luxuriant and streams
If you fill my cup of worldly woe

15. Then my cup of its bliss is bare
An aspirant destroys me, yet aspiration is never complete

16. Until the structure crumbles
And steeds of tribulations stampede

17. And their stampeding, not their tethering, is their habit
Lamenters just as they became lamented

18. And doves just as the singing girls sang
There is no water in this galaxy