1. My desire for longevity has long brought hardship to the young man
Through the burden of prolonged life, and Allah knows best

2. If the reach of life brings no profit
Other than misery, then death is better and safer

3. An astray man led his people astray from their elders
So they are steps to misguidance and a ladder

4. And two ignorant winds destroyed him
One old and one recent graduate

5. I contemplated and affirmed that his silence
Is guidance and piety, so let him not speak going forward

6. I see the plants as more deserving to feel their destruction
If they claim that even rocks feel pain

7. And I testify that time is fleeting like a dream
And that the eternal full moon will fade and wane

8. I found the hand of the Giver withdrawing and His eye
Turning away, and the claws of lions blunted