1. Time passes, so be patient with what time brings,
For patience in such times is the way of the virtuous.

2. You will have the patience of despair or calculated patience,
So do not prefer the face that carries sin.

3. Beware that sorrow is followed by tribulation
That will confine the likes of your faith and excuse.

4. When bereavement saddens the insightful, healing him,
He sees that losing reward is more devastating than losing loved ones.

5. The real loss is not the deceased lying in his grave,
But the one who mourns the death of his reward.

6. The life of people is a path leading to death, fleeting,
On which they pace as the journey is set out.

7. So guide of my path, keep going, for dawn
Will guide you on the straight path or the desert.

8. When death makes every aged person's home its palace,
Then whether life was long or short is equal.

9. Do you not see that when religion was violated
Many protectors did not avail, though their number was countless?

10. The kingdom took control, dragging behind
Its train the defeated troops in disorder.

11. If fate had not decreed it, it would have been prevented
By the difficult attempt and rugged, impassable path.

12. When the barefoot army stumbles in the dark of night
With no bright dawn to illuminate it.

13. Has any soul in the world sought perdition more
Or jeopardized guidance, losing the way of life?

14. Loyal servants of the most faithful king, indeed an era
Has wronged you with its spiteful nature.

15. Why did it not also wrong that its adornments are yours
And your memory is the perfume of its days?

16. You are shrouded but did not veil the hunting dogs,
No white banners were hoisted nor red spears sharpened.

17. No majesty diverted threats away from you,
No proven valor, no victor overwhelming.

18. If the belly of the earth has been adorned to welcome you
Lying within, it has desolated the surface.

19. By the white tombs in that soil,
The green bounties have verily been buried inside them.

20. Peace be upon you from Allah, a greeting
Whose gentle forgiveness perfumes you.

21. The clouds have vowed to that tomb
To smile with flowers when they weep over its soil.

22. In it is glorious youth that cannot be rivaled,
And a potential never matched by any other.

23. Dazzling white in its enclosure as though it were
A well-preserved coin whose traces shine.

24. As if the red color of death avoided it
As its crimson standards approached the arena of battle.

25. Nor did it protect the sanctuary of guidance
Until the lost territory was reclaimed.

26. The repentant did not avail it, so gifts poured
As abundant as the showers dripping from the clouds.

27. Its views were not shrouded in ostentation
As if the unseen world was openly voiced in its perspective.

28. It did not divide authority, leaning towards it
As the falcon divides its gaze towards the prey.

29. The epithets of its sultanate were fulfilled, supporting it,
Aided by victory from early on.

30. Until its day called it, and it responded
When good deeds had been done and provisions stored.

31. It became an aged knight who had taken on its burden,
A throne it had not failed to carry in its firmness.

32. O Master, your servants' isolation after losing you
Has lasted too long before the hoped for reunion.

33. We greet you with peace according to our covenant,
But neither the caller is heard nor the veil lifted.

34. Regret at that impeded our consent, so we are blamed,
Are our hearing and the exalted assembly to blame?

35. It is your preoccupation, and when free, you will listen,
Unless the appointment is the Day of Resurrection.

36. Could I forget you when a covenant has been broken, even if
The prolonged dark nights ceased to blame my soul?

37. How can there be forgetfulness when you filled my hands
With generous favors, the least being abundant?

38. If I have not thanked you for blessings
That overwhelmed me, disbelief would ruin me.

39. Does the Sacred Side know that I
Justify a condition whose reality perplexes the mind?

40. That my repentance was not neglected by Muhammad,
Your just Caliph, the Pleased One, and your righteous son.

41. He is the prominent victor, supported by the One
Who entrusted him, and with whom he shares secrets.

42. He saw in choosing me what you saw, and gave me
The preference of closeness, resulting in pride.

43. And in my devotion he humiliated the noses
Of foes whose meeting is hellfire and glance is spark.

44. When the circle of devotion is aligned in hand
And I stand equal to them, superiority is mine.

45. In his exalted self I have a privileged place,
Competing with Sirius and the eagle.

46. The enemies speak against me in secret gatherings:
"Do not consult him, the matter is decided."

47. But their plotting in pursuing the goal was misguided,
So it recoiled back upon them, their sorcery failed.

48. My position prevents me from desiring theirs,
As age beforehand prevented youth from its orbit.

49. Goodness to you, grief was an absence
In which, like the full moon, hope shone for us.

50. You performed the obligatory prayer sincerely,
Farewelling it with ritual purity and presence of mind.

51. Previously, you offered supererogatory prayers in pairs
To match those who fast out of need when breaking fast.

52. You went to the palace which was too lofty
For any other palace to approach its loftiness.

53. May both continue forever in the goodness of an era
Forbidden from their company is separation.

54. Spare the bereaved from consolation, for if he is gone,
You are not the one lamenting nor the sobbing breast.

55. The seventy before the people of proof
Did not attain the tenth of what your decade attained.

56. Are you not the one who, if a mind was constrained by an event,
The face beamed and the chest expanded?

57. Then do not flap the wing of grief afterwards,
For who but you can mend the adversities of the world?

58. You remain, your army abundant in well-being,
Bound to them, their multitude your pride.

59. You are a sun in the sky of leadership,
Around it orbiting stars glowing.

60. We doubted - did the days of our time
Bring years and old age, or did intoxication make it stumble?

61. When it was not wooed by trials,
Or walked in its joints intoxicated.

62. But only the joys from the disposition of a just king,
Whose truth is verified by each succeeding news.

63. I see if time wreaks havoc, you are its right hand,
And if the world smiles, you are its mouth.

64. How many who asked for rain were answered by you there,
Hands pleading while even and odd joined.

65. There lies piety, knowledge, forbearance and prohibition,
Giving aid, courage, order and prose and verse.

66. Ambitions, when meeting the adversary, repelled him,
Its advance a stride, its retreat dignity.

67. The beauty of a garden which the dew stirred,
A meadow, when set out its adornments shine, not needing arranging.

68. When it blossomed, its enduring musk never
Felt shy nor its ambergris prideful.

69. Giving without favor, wisdom without passion,
Forbearance without weakness, honor without arrogance.

70. Blessing fulfilled its perfection in you to us,
So praise and thanks are due to Allah from us.