1. Fate, yet who can complain of fate?
What is wisdom but to be patient?

2. He who sustained you will send
A successor better than before.

3. A noble root - when it bore fruit
The gardens bore them without number.

4. Named with a name encompassing
The beauty of heavens and of flowers.

5. Exalt him with a mount well-reined,
Drawing near the meadows, lofty of view.

6. His was the station, if stationed
For glory or for danger.

7. You are charged that you emulate him,
Enduring, of lasting renown.

8. Excellent the remainder of one whose constancy
And providence were excellent.

9. Bountiful, of purified character,
Praised in conduct, of renowned journey.

10. Gardens have secluded you from
The gossiping of others.

11. Your virtues known in desert
And cities proclaimed you.

12. Those virtues among virtues
Are like unique pearls among pearls.

13. Brilliant, donned by nights
Evident as treasures.

14. Recited upon days as verses
And collected in surahs.