1. To the shortcomings of our lives there is what completes
And time makes us despair while we are hopeful

2. Death walks slowly to deceive us
Forever, so it overtakes us while we are rushing

3. O you who are amazed by life, however long it is
Your stay in death seems even longer

4. Turn away from the worthless world and flee
The greedy perishes while the reliant survives

5. And when the eyelids are freed from the darkness of ambiguity
A reasonable person frees his soul from doubts

6. Whoever is destined to perish, the ways of righteousness
And every difficult path were made clear the eve of his ruin

7. Whoever was heedless, let him make himself aware
That death seeks and does not neglect

8. I weep for you for the good deeds when you were released
And you hosted the wayfarer, so you are laden

9. They carried you while blessings were around you and guidance
One who died when you died is being carried on your bier

10. And you went to rest where your eye is content, not as
Eyes of sorrow were around you neglecting

11. O his grave, fresh and tidy, after it
Had been, before the rain, eroded and old

12. Convey my condolences and greetings and tell him
My patience, though I pretend to have it, is little

13. You have made this dilapidated house desolate
Did the companion get comfort in that house?

14. Alas! He is deaf, so no eloquent speaker
Can convey a word to him, nor a messenger deliver

15. Tell his son, may your words to his son be good
That one who was fortunate, the like of you comes forth

16. If a generous one could ransom death with his wealth
He would have saved your father from calamity with all he spends

17. Or if the one who wanted him could fight for him
He would have filled the plain fighting for him with all he kills

18. Or if it was an illness with a cure
But it is the inescapable, insoluble disease

19. A world that is pleased by what harms the likes of him
It has a name that is sweet but a meaning that is bitter

20. Have patience, and of the wonders of afflictions is that
Through them one sees how to have patience while withering

21. And know that a father who sacrificed himself for you
His death became easy on him and smooth

22. Blessed is he that his day was before yours
How many deaths are better than a life?

23. And if the hand of death threw him its arrow
It avoided you with what it threw, destruction

24. It consoles you for him that you filled
His heart with every beneficial word and deed

25. And you bid him farewell while in seclusion
Where the honorable parts in solitude

26. Sorrow cannot snatch a delight from you
That you did not one day yield to it in humility

27. Far from you, may a misfortune gather us in your house
And an occasion for evil be held

28. And you inherited the lifetime of eternity prosperously
Pulling whatever you want in dignity and plenty

29. So when you greet him alive and well
Your father under the earth is dead and well