1. Death is no sluggard in its onset,
O you asleep in wakeful pose!

2. Remember you must travel solo,
To a sight that preaches clearly to all.

3. After a life of comfort and acquaintance,
And height of status - what a height!

4. Have mercy on your youth or age through piety,
For that is what remains over freshness.

5. Take the path of the most glorious nobility, he
Who left praise recited by every tongue.

6. The elite of humankind in all the world
Are the excellent and beneficent.

7. He gathered glories for the one who contains
Honor - so the two honors befitted him.

8. Then he answered his Lord when He called,
Obediently, with composure.

9. So when you visit, send a prayer recording
To grant him the best of noble abodes.