1. I see no excuse for time, O friend
Does it know for whom it brought evil

2. And for whom it suddenly brought distress
Mankind's servants and freemen alike were afflicted

3. It brought back sorrow to the forelocks of nights
And the faces of people became disheveled and dusty

4. It made the generous stingy, and the eyes of
Glory shed tears, and the brow of virtue became hot

5. It plucked a branch from the palm tree of generosity
And it suddenly withered though it had been fresh

6. The eminent ones eulogized him while he was in a grave
After patience placed him in a grave

7. O crescent, I hoped you would become a full moon
But the hand of evil erased you, so be consoled

8. Who can I blame, if a critic blames you?
Rather, excuse him, for he will not accept an excuse

9. I have restrained myself from blaming him
Just as I have restrained my chest from your calamity

10. I said, leave me be and my tears will complain
Weeping for him, and my brow will be hot

11. Do not let my eyes find comfort, for their
Light has settled in the darkness of the tomb

12. Without me, it is half of my inner darkness
After half of my inner self parted from me

13. Strangely, I have become lenient with dust
And I lay him in it and pour it on him

14. After I expected all eyes would see
That radiant and most noble one

15. In his life, living was sweet for me
And today, after him, it has become bitter

16. And it suffices me, what I have lived, an affliction upon myself
That I remain while the grave settles him against his will

17. However I die, I am frigid
And the hand of death has clung onto that strongly

18. I don fresh clothes for my body while alive
Yet he wears out in the soil, dead and naked

19. I did not spare myself to be patient
While my heart is wounded by his arrow

20. I avoided alleviating the pain from him out of
Compassion, not to relay any excuse to people

21. And I spent the finest of my money
Along with spending the most cherished for his treatment

22. I wish he could remain, and I would be
Content if he stayed, that would comfort my eyes

23. It is an evil of time that I see him
Those who were good to their children fared poorly

24. They are the Prophet's sons, and those in the wilderness
Are like the Prophet's sons in generosity and righteousness

25. The party of glory, the people of pure nobility
The tribe of the eminent, needless to say their pride

26. Greed has robbed people, but none other than them
Were free in the world

27. Muhammad, the righteous in deeds, clothed them
With a cloak of his pride, pleasantly scented

28. Devoutness - whoever saw him said
"By my life, you have a sublime essence within you"

29. Angelic in attributes, but you see him
Human in limbs, his worth most high

30. You have a holy soul that has been purified
By it, secretly and openly, for God

31. It is that soul between the sides
Of the one of exalted qualities, your brother - it is no other

32. By law, you two have risen to the heights
And mounted the star on its back

33. What was evil has ended, and what was hidden is revealed
So he is the time's fullness, in good and evil

34. With ease he pours with his right over others
And a hand that was facile for its seeker

35. It flows more generously than seas in bestowal
And is more abundant in pearls than clouds drifting

36. It makes the land fertile through its clouds, so that when the generous
Moves, the surface of the barren plain shivers through him

37. And on the earth - if he walks, the meteors
Drag their hems for him in procession

38. How can the stars not envy his wealth
By which he has risen above the meteors in pride?

39. He raced ahead, and the trustee of grace prayed behind him
Then they both settled in the highest glory

40. Rising in its heaven as sun and moon
So every light became guided by them

41. For one aspiring to glorious deeds
O sons of the Prophet, you have established mildness

42. And so you became patient through tribulations
The recompense belongs to you, but patience

43. Is more befitting of you, even if worth is high
And the sorrow of the past is lessened when

44. You remain, even if the loss was grave