1. I grew up with certain knowledge of fate
And we know that destiny holds creation in its grip

2. And we incline to the world, deceived by its vanity
Suffice it for one who hopes for loyalty from betrayal

3. And we waste time foolishly
As day turns to day and month to month

4. And we are tempted by what perishes, passions and desires
And we reject what remains, oh what a waste of life

5. And we drive away honorable, noble loved ones to demise
Then we joke and play, unconcerned after that

6. Such is time, it leaves nothing of its news
Ever renewing, never free of strange events

7. And between impending disasters, there are differences
Like the difference of one taken in the prime of glory

8. Have you not seen that glory loudest winds have stilled
And the beautiful has changed on the face of the eminent

9. And gloom appeared on the face of the prominent
After cheerfulness and glad tidings

10. Our greatest consolation, your loyalty, we
Have endured to melancholy from moral strength

11. We lost you, not just the eyes lost their light
You were a light that illuminated the traveller's path

12. I wondered at fate's killer, how he was not deterred
From your abode, surrounded by prohibitions and commands

13. And how the vicissitudes of time were determined
To breach the white castle and the brown spear

14. Ramparts of firm religion, so many shields for the kingdom and glory
We prepare the lofty spears and arrows

15. And the command of God comes from where we know not
Such is time, its rule advances in the wilderness

16. The glory of wealth is the same as the humiliation of poverty
Tubba was struck down by fate intentionally though

17. His followers had no aid in that ordeal
And Anushirwan finished off Chosroes with his fate

18. Stripped bare, and left no palace for Caesar
Islam was anguished by you and its people

19. For losing a famous provision of well-known mention
And a singular one who surpassed the women of her time

20. As she excelled the like of her, the Night of Power
Did femininity lower the status of the sun?

21. Or did masculinity raise the status of the full moon?
Originality of views, excellence of policy

22. And pride of affiliation, the utmost pride
And a record of glory, its pages contained

23. During the victorious kings, the sons of Nasr
By continuing good, pious conduct and a means

24. To shelter the anguished, aid the oppressed
I see the journey of life, its return hoped for

25. Return your gaze to the palace of the kingdom
Even if just an illusion that passes

26. For in it is many a heart throbbing for your absence
And much burning anguish and flowing tears

27. And a group, whose unity was torn by the hand of longing
And a beautiful sight, changed by the hand of fate

28. And a position of power, its flanks made desolate
And the aura of a palace seen without a full moon

29. You were but the sun, the world lived by you
At the height of glory or peak of destiny

30. Alas, for the sun, who resembles you?
Perfection without flaw, benefit without harm

31. We carried from you a blessed raincloud
Holy rain, generous pouring

32. And when we came to the grave in the darkness of night
We saw the setting of the sun at dawn's break

33. If only a grave became for people a place of pilgrimage
We would make our prayers facing that grave

34. If people found a way to the soil
That contained your covered grave of merit and righteous deeds

35. They would circle it seven times, yearn and pilgrimage
And through it attain reward and recompense

36. And the resolve of Joseph, descendant
Of your pure, just, generous lineage intervened

37. But it is a judgment from God, welling forth
To be met with acceptance, patience, and gratitude

38. And below you is a servant, mourning your kingdom
Praise, as the breeze stirs the flowers

39. If it were in my capacity, I would have reached in praise
What your mighty status deserves, not what my capacity deserves

40. By God, I have not fulfilled your rightful due
But it is something by which I establish my excuse