1. All existence is the target of fate's arrow,
A decree that has run its course even on rulers.

2. How can permanence be when all things perish,
For a dweller in an abode that is without permanence?

3. So do good for yourself that you may find
When people awake from their slumber of heedlessness.

4. And shake off your hands from this house which
Has enchanted with dreams those lost in dreams.

5. It is the house that admonished you, and admonition suffices you,
The death of knowledge and the displacement of signs.

6. Look at this tomb and what it contains
Of a knowing scholar and an overflowing sea.

7. An ocean of verification whose pearls
Were threaded by the necks of cranes of pens.

8. A treasure of precision - how much fine jewelry in it
Of figurines of jurisprudence and judgments.

9. This imam Hussein, the flag of knowledge that
Ordered piety and knowledge - what system!

10. O gathering of two seas! O burnoose of one
Who left a light in the darkness of ignorance!

11. You were the lamp of guidance and its morning
And the beauty of the face of the days' assemblies.

12. If you are absent from the eyes' sight, still
You remain among the hearts in the most precious place.

13. May you be congratulated for what you left of gratitude and what
You presented as provision for attaining hopes.

14. No wonder that death may find virtue, and in
Its date this felicity reached its conclusion.