1. Death is irrevocable fate condensed to strike,
Enforcing destiny upon the doomed to die.

2. And destiny flows in the way that it must flow;
In flowing thus it follows destiny's decree.

3. The beloved master death holds much in thrall,
As though avenging all whom death has claimed.

4. Through all its people time wields savage power,
Its arrows strike, unerring, through the throng.

5. So do not trust time's turning, for it grants
No safety, sparing not the high or low.

6. Often it lures with favor, then betrays,
Once confident, it turns from men and spurns.

7. Our asset lost his eyesight in his land,
No wonder in his land though it be gone.

8. Submission led our Islam, wise of soul,
To walk the path of fate and acquiescence.

9. No wailing, tears or wild lament can wrest
The fortunes fixed that inexorably passed.

10. Grey heads once black as jet it forces now,
Although but babes first cradled snowy-fair.

11. Would you two eyes withhold your streaming tears
While fated judges weep and fate decrees?

12. Both grove and dew shall weep as fate ordains,
While judges weep, and fate itself doth mourn.

13. The Koran weeps; the villages weep on;
The villages weep, meadows weep around.

14. All knowledge weeps; the rivers weep, the plains;
The oceans weep, horizons weep beyond.

15. Let no malicious joy in him be shown,
For his is habitation sweetly graced.

16. The good he had was recompensed with good,
Good for good was given him in place.

17. Hard years will gentle turn for Muslims when
Misfortune strikes or hopes run dry or waste.

18. A youth who gives to all who beg their needs,
Declaring want, or in his bounty blessed.

19. Ransom for him each frowning countenance
Should faces come to him in brightness drest, -

20. The faces of the honored generous elite
Should they meet darkness, and dispel night's shade.

21. For them, their house, God's blessing did descend,
And from God's will they gained the best accolade.