1. Patience is a virtue, so be patient
The impatient is like the tardy

2. Days will not cease their havoc
Nor the anguish of the anguished, or the tears of those who cry

3. Such are calamities, as you know, and we are all
Witnesses and victims of their plots

4. Hardship walks along, it fears no rich brother
It turns away from him, and is not softened for the needy

5. Time has swept away their glories, aiming arrows
At a target, neglecting no speech of protectors

6. Consider how Tubba spared and forgave
Chosroes, or how he pardoned Caesar

7. Oh Abu Muhammad the Glorious, his affliction
Is with Abu Shuja, his carefully selected mate

8. His brother after him, his brother
In character, his brother in lineage

9. It was not known that his death
Was certain, so it came at its time though unpleasant

10. Who with the fangs of fate has not been torn
Or by the claws of destiny been gashed

11. Accept matters with a content and obedient heart
For the Planner of affairs, not the planned

12. A young man's trials reveal the worth of the man
As fire tells the value of amber

13. Oh House of Tayfur, how generosity
Has been diffused through us, and were it not for you, it would not have been diffused

14. How many groups have attained, by your hands
What the hands of no company attained

15. They said, as the days took their turns against them
In Persia, that long life belongs to Ja'far