1. Sadness is inevitable and fate ineluctable,
So why grieve over what's destined and irrevocable?

2. Why shed tears from your eyes when
What's passed can't be recalled, that's ineluctable?

3. A decree binding all creation prevails,
So restraining your soul is wise and laudable.

4. All people share the same inescapable fate,
So opposing time pointlessly is contemptible.

5. Mourning grew long but does its duration
Bring ought but more sorrow as fires grow formidable?

6. A heart alarmed by affliction, a frame
Complaining of woes, strong then weak and fragile,

7. Ribs stripped bare of pillows, eyes that
Yearn for rest, an anguished soul liable,

8. Endless regrets and vexations that thrive,
Sickness that festers as health grows unstable.

9. Spare yourself, for weeping can't restore
What's gone, and the ailing gain naught from their quarrel.

10. The noble accept the decree of fate calmly,
The base challenged by nature stay miserable.

11. Seek release however you can find a way;
When fate rules, accept and be peaceable.

12. Fate took the trusted one; we too shall go.
Patience is best. Submit and stay pliable.

13. Would that I knew what he missed in his life -
Do men gain aught in their days profitable?

14. Say, in your life did you see one content?
Hardship is general, bliss unobtainable.

15. Show me a man in his days who doesn't complain
Of his lot and helps in affairs as he's able.

16. There you are - you're the one we know
Whom fate neglected, as all are aware.

17. Fate gave you less than your due, and we all
Know this, as the source makes the stream indubitable.

18. Whoever tasted time, mourns not the past,
Nor rejoices at what's to come, as is suitable.

19. Weddings and funerals seem all the same
To the wise, who see life as invariable.

20. Such is the way of the world, and it can't be
Changed at all, as the enlightened are cognizable.

21. Yet man's mind is confused, while God protects
Whom He will, as the guided are honorable.