1. They asked me why I did not eulogize my father
Is eulogizing one's father a duty? What duty?

2. O blamers, how unjust you are to me
Where is the rationale that brings happiness? Where?

3. O father, you were not the first
Every soul has death as an obligatory duty

4. People and villages perished before you
And the bier announced the best of the two burdens

5. A person's goal, though the journey be long
Is seized by the most trivial of matters

6. A doctor who busies himself with the incurable
Exhaling from his healing a hidden sigh

7. Indeed death's blow, if it strikes
Would nearly shatter kinship's bond

8. It penetrates the air on its heels
And meets the lion between two mountains

9. And drops the chick from its nest
And gets the parrot at two hundred

10. I am the one who died and the one who died is me
We both met death twice

11. We were a fetus in one body
Then we became a fetus in two bodies

12. Then we returned a fetus in one body
Then we will be a corpse in two shrouds

13. Then we will live through Ali after us
And through him we will be resurrected the first of the two resurrections

14. Look at the universe and describe it
All this originated from two parents

15. So if it is asked what their origin is
Say they are mercy in two wombs

16. They lost Heaven by creating us
And we enjoyed it in two gardens

17. And they are the excuse when they get angry
And they are the ones who forgive us appeased

18. I wish I knew which living being did not
Worship what we worshipped in the beginning

19. And God stopped us where they stopped
And caused the messengers to die except the two parents

20. My father is but a brother I parted from
His affection is honesty and people's affection is disloyalty

21. We have long stood up to a table
On which the piece of bread was split in two

22. And we drank from one cup
And after that we washed our hands twice in it

23. And we walked hand in hand
Whoever saw us said they are two brothers

24. Fate looked upon us with one look
Making mischief equal, so it was two looks

25. O father, and death is a bitter cup
The soul does not taste it twice

26. How was the hour you spent
When everything before or after was insignificant

27. Did you drink death in it one draught
Or did you drink death in it two draughts

28. Do not fear, after you, sorrow or crying
My eye and your eye froze today

29. You taught me to leave grief behind
All beauty, its end is death, disgrace

30. I wonder, will we meet again
Or is this the separation of two intimates

31. And when I die and am buried
Will I be put in one grave or two