1. The time for consolation has passed, and the time for vengeance has come
The harmful darkness has returned to its forest

2. If adversity brought him to his fate
We have retaliated against him with harm

3. He came to erase his wrong with goodness
As a guilty man comes with an excuse

4. Any sweetness from him was a draught whose bitterness he gulped down
Though it was made pleasant with smoothness

5. When I saw the people turn away, I said to them
Disgrace is met by he who is ashamed of dishonor

6. No one who died while daring has truly died
Rather, every coward died while still living

7. They said, repel the sea’s billows from deceit
With death baring its fangs and claws

8. So I said: Alas! A prescribed destiny has transpired
And fulfilled what it fulfilled, a destiny cannot be repelled

9. The pigeons in the sea have overwhelmed them
Just as they overwhelmed Othman in the cave

10. The fires of battle amidst the sea’s waves are extinguished
Yet they are feasts between water and fire

11. Their virtues aroused the sweet scent of remembrance
As fire kindles aromas from aloeswood and ambergris

12. No man’s honor increases, no matter his generosity
Except to seem to him like a heap of gold dinars