1. Is this my soul conversing or night talk
Or some whisper of thought

2. Or evil suspicion of the anxious
So where are you Abu Umar

3. Never, by God, neither sight
Nor news have lied

4. And I saw the councils of benevolence
The leaders of dugout courtyards

5. And I wondered when they panicked and it was
As if patience poured into them

6. And they are mountains of vicissitudes
When time persists with them

7. Their souls carried sorrow
Away from them and from other people

8. No calamity before you
In which they made an impact

9. But it is the cause that
Lies between death and mortals

10. No good ends in good
Or evil in evil

11. To God is your grave, what it contained
And to Him your place of rest, what it concealed

12. And I had intended to say
You were watered, O grave, by the rain

13. And I saw beneath your soil what
Would be invoked for you, had it appeared