1. There remains in time no beauty after this beauty
Beauty, benevolence, and beauty have departed

2. She left one morning after intending to travel, a slender doe
Pure of lawful livelihood, what a departure of the slender doe

3. She has passed on from one who has passed on behind
Remaining is the confidant, and when he passed away none remained confidant

4. O you who graze the eye, if you indulge in youth
The splinter will wound the eye until it grazes the youth

5. That which was absent from its people was for a youth
If not for death, it would have revived Ja'far's traits

6. Time does not know the value, it has done wrong with what
It took from beauty, how ugly is time

7. To God is the value of one whose mouth rivaled mine
The value of frankincense, so the milk between us is pure

8. And a friend of mine whose bend I followed
I followed him yearningly, if only yearning followed him

9. I hid my innermost feelings from him and declared them
Neither secret nor open benefits me

10. Until I let flow an uncovered passion
And passion surfaces at times and hides at times

11. How many a watering place was wholesome after death for a son of piety
Not every watering place, its water wholesome

12. O stumbler of fate, how many a son of lineage you brought down
Time that makes stumble, miserable is the stumbler

13. If only the stumbler were to soil his face
And rid us of another free of blemish, of beautiful face

14. After you, I will not say misfortune to fate
Nor blame, and those who said misfortune were cursed

15. And we lived delicately in a rugged dwelling
So bestow upon it my blessings, O rugged dwelling

16. One who looks at people in their days sees them
Like a branch that withers after verdure, the branch

17. And all who take precautions against thirst
Return more thirsty, how unquenched by the cloud!

18. Fate’s first tribulation passes
Just so its last tribulation remains

19. Time never lacks a day full of sorrow
The nature of days and sorrow never part

20. The earth for man is either its back, a homeland
He has refuge, or its belly, a homeland

21. People are like the body prone to decay, if left intact
People cannot be safe until the body is safe

22. Though people's well-being be prolonged
Death must yoke them in a common death

23. Of no use to man is wealth he prepares
Nor courage if demise comes, nor cowardice

24. And a final place in his loved ones' hands
Futilely handed about by hands and embraced

25. Or necks on the coffin boards bearing him
As if carried in their bosom

26. They carried him on a bier, whenever they tried
To hasten their steps, gently with him, and weakened

27. Had he been of those shielded from fate by a well-aimed spear-thrust
Fate would have shielded him through the well-aimed spear

28. Or been of those shielded from death by a white-bladed sword
Death would have shielded him by its white blade

29. Our fixed term leads us to its destination
Raiding and madness avail us naught

30. The opinions' harvester died at eve in a meadow
Having harvested the meadow but not the eve

31. He who filled the days with precedence passed away
Existing since existence, the foremost companion

32. Wealth does not follow one who spends it
While generosity is the heirloom of man and favors

33. Or his open-handedness is followed by his bounty and bounteousness
Not all noble ones are of plentiful bounty