1. Who can protect the elephant after the lion and tiger?
Alas, death spares no one.

2. Who can unite the clan, satisfy the tribe, meet necessity, or guide to the right path?
None remain above the earth’s plain,

3. Except the morning of Sunday grieved them.
Thursday renewed for me a sorrow,

4. The like of which no day had brought upon anyone.
How little attention people paid to this, though they looked

5. At the abundant tears of a father for his son!
The loss of Musa's son was as severe as his father’s,

6. So woe to him as much as to his namesake!
Had I been on the west side when the son of Musa

7. Died there, I would have called to the doves, “Enough!”
O Death, after him there is no ultimate goal you seek.

8. You have reached the stars in your ascent, so stop!
Each day he gained more knowledge and experience

9. Until finally a day came with no tomorrow.
He quenched the thirst of the people of Banu Yaghmour,

10. Though long you struggled and the rain did not come.