1. O House of generous Jafar
If time were just your numbers would not diminish

2. In you there is mercy against the harshness of days
And from you patience and fortitude are obtained

3. You have not ceased, while the wind of events blows stormily
A towering mountain, its rising summit climbing upward

4. Bending to God and the brethren therein and to the
Healthy, whom the sword and lion fear

5. And know, while you are knowing, that it is an attribute
And not from Allah, Lord of the Throne, newly originated

6. So I have not found any grave calamity with more pain
Than that which you find, of which I have multiples