1. Nothing but piety brings reward
And everything’s lifetime leads to decay

2. And kingship over people is entrusted
On loan without condition to convey

3. Abu Bakr is rain when no
Clouds blanket the land with showers

4. By God, none can attain his days
Unshod or barefoot, that strives and cowers

5. Who can attain his days however they strain
Roaming the bare wilderness in vain

6. Man strives though fate forestalls him
And the eye, garb of misery, gives warning plain

7. He grows old or dies or defeat oppresses him
Or a malady without cure causes him pain

8. For glory in its abode manifest
A lofty pool no diminution can stain

9. The Giver of steeds with armored host
And she-camels hastening with quick refrain