1. Solace, submission, and patience - though of no avail -
A Muslim must submit to destiny's trail

2. Though misfortune may suddenly assail
It is but a speck in the greater scale

3. She had sisters before her, like Miriam
And Aasiya and Khadijah, ascetics of fame

4. Though this Khadijah has passed away
She was sacred, chaste night and day

5. Never wearing a garment of shame
Nor revealing what modesty must tame

6. Though one day death came her way
Unlike loyalty, that's here to stay

7. She was but a daughter of Adam and Eve
Like us in life, death and reprieve

8. Our sons - we know not their fate or their name
They marched ahead of this caravan

9. We follow their tracks that the swimming camel ran
For this world is no lasting abode

10. Its shadow of permanence does not bode
Created are we for strife and sadness

11. For death and return, with promise of gladness
Fate distinguishes misery from bliss

12. Oh woe to the wretched, and joy to the blessed!
He among us whom God did guide

13. Whose pleasure leads to heavens wide
Strange that the dead mourn the dead

14. And the dead console them instead
Patience is the maxim of the wise

15. When what's gone cannot be the prize
Though the pain of loss does subside

16. All Eve's children have tasted its tide
Death is a door we all must take

17. To the field of awakening, no mistake
A leader dies, loud rings his fate

18. Yet in death, he's a lion at the lake
This consolation, near or far

19. Is a sunnah all the living share
But those in their graves never knew

20. Our grief and sorrow, sadness so true
Their state unknown, their fate obscure

21. What they were given, what was in store
We bid farewell in melancholy dome

22. Then to gossip and tales we roam
Far apart are love of dead and living

23. Once separated, love stops its giving
Hate the beloved laid below

24. With dirt and soil its cheek bestrow
You'll forget in a day, maybe less

25. As it rots in earth's dark dress
Morning and eve we pass them by

26. With hearts of stone and pitiless eye
They're but pebbles now, their spark gone