1. May God grant you patience in your heart
And reward you with benevolence and great reward

2. And rain upon the soil of those you have lost with clouds
Not with tears, for that is more dewy and fertile

3. Surely, something has shocked you, greater than anything
That who encounters it does not magnify anything

4. Except that the sick hopes for a cure
So if he does not attain it, then patience is best

5. It is truly the nature's right to grieve
And reason knows the conclusion best

6. If crying and wailing would avail anything
Khanssa would have erected a rock before you

7. All that exists is illusion so we do not pity
Zaid nor congratulate Amr

8. One aspires for long life in this world
While he is towards death or from death slack

9. And the life of this world is called life
Just as a galaxy is deemed a river

10. Thus people stumble after stumblers
Every eye with the tear of separation grateful

11. Many weep for a blow that befell me
While it may strike him unexpectedly another

12. All who laugh at you will make you weep and the
Weeping will be wept, so all are slain and captive

13. We and disease and medicine are from the
Earth, dust, and all to earth incline

14. And the life of this world is a path to the
Other, so take its provision which is best

15. O path of eternity, if you are good
Then you have virtue whenever you are shorter

16. Often men have treated time
So it afflicted them with letters that do not settle

17. A trick leaves it a way to it
And an illness by our rejecting medicine is cured

18. You are not worthy to be consoled with what
We came with, you are above that in worth

19. What is with you is partly from you
And partly from blood that flowed neglected

20. If we had obeyed tears hastening
We would not have stood reciting poetry to you

21. We knew you to be lenient with people
And we knew you to deter people

22. And we knew you, whenever the discourse
Around you expanded, were of broader chest

23. You are an ocean and grief is an ember
Whoever saw an ember warming an ocean

24. You have paired life's woes as even and odd
And known days as belly and back

25. And for the likes of me is advice to you
And that is what you have chosen as treasure

26. And when you are safe, loss becomes slight
You have sufficed from one who is moral and dust