1. Youth passed by leaving only remorse of a traveller,
And old age made me careless of blames from the censurers.

2. The turns of fate refused favours to the white
From me over the black although due to my merit.

3. They seek my affection while I think them
Too trifling for the anxieties they inflict.

4. My arrows of calamities hit them as though,
When I complain of them, I shoot skinny arrows.

5. I count the death of my beloved ones the greatest loss,
And overflow of disasters and breaking of similar things.

6. About nations who alternately dominated;
Transfer of conditions does not mean change of times.

7. Had I not been concerned with the sublime and its effects,
I would have dreaded the rising of the lowly.

8. Who can say to the Shah while the Shah is self-conceited
Informing him about the kingdom of Gharsh and Kabul?

9. Disdain the baseness of the world and think it low,
For the deluded wise man is not wise.

10. Some whose efforts went wrong seek eternity
While beyond what they seek is maze of delusion.

11. Habits of survival are mere absurd talk
Not hopes for real stability.

12. When a people's caution disappears and they have nothing
To protect them, then ruin overtakes fighters.

13. Fortune did not favour more than the number
Of those already in its coils.

14. Fate takes us towards death though we may,
Sometimes go slowly on that path.

15. Quickly from the world, our aim is
A fixed term soon to arrive.

16. The last part of life, if examined,
Resembles the first in examples.

17. Last year, however extraordinary its marvels,
Was but a brother to the next year.

18. We neglected days, easy to neglect,
But the fearful betrayed no trust.

19. Seekers of death penetrated and
Motive for death searched the mean and niggardly.

20. No disaster hurt us like the loss
Of Abul Fadl, son of the two honoured nobles.

21. For him we kindled the fire of love,
And the downpour of tears flowed from us,

22. We did not give him the right of passion,
Nor attained the fullness of sorrow.

23. Guide on a journey to glory, leader
In an attack against calamities, fighter,

24. When good manners grow in the few
Who have little, much good is expected.

25. When they appear to the eyes mixed up,
Their virtues appear wonderfully mixed up.

26. When some of them manage the enemy,
It seems the prey of eagles is for fledglings.

27. The piercing spear is enough in its length
To reach the pigeon from feathers and nails.

28. Chief of Bani Mikyal when they were united
Though the beginning of loss was lack of union,

29. Brother of brothers, Mohammed's efforts were not
Negligent of goodness nor slow to aid.

30. The sword immersed in the blood of Bani Ahwaadh,
And the sword fulfils its promises.

31. Their coats of mail straiten every wide
Expanse for the lion with outstretched paws.

32. They were men who shook the land, if they walked on it,
And the land is full of tremors.

33. So many of them enjoy blessings and show pride,
Or are eminent and show arrogance,

34. When asked they give freely like floods
Resembling abundant rains from clouds.

35. They say what pleases regardless of critics
If none preceded them in the saying.

36. Worthy that their palms soften
The necks of huge events of time.

37. And the eyes of seekers still expect
Favours from one, lofty in position,

38. Abu Ghanim, may the sheep of a hopeful ever
Expect success or depend on a helper.

39. I prayed to you yesterday, so the tents
Of abundant rain poured without restraint,

40. If fates were just, my requests would be
To you and others would request for me.