1. Between her secrets they buried you
Or in caves they hid you in stealth

2. You are not one who would accept this soil
As home, so did it please or betray you?

3. O daughter of Mahmoud, grieved by all
Is the touch of dust on your frail body

4. They left your youth in it, prey to ruin
Alas for the waste of your abandoned youth

5. And shoveled it over your sun, O light of morn
So the full moon in the sky wept for you, its brother

6. The doves trampled the nest of lions
Oh, if only I knew where your father had been

7. I knew him, meeting doom with Muhannd
Sheathed in spilled blood, raised high his sword

8. Oh soul of Mahmood, though you were wise
to the ways of this walked world

9. They knew you break not for any event
Or are you still as they once knew you?

10. This dust, and you know best, is where all meet
Ruler and slave in this mortal fray

11. Are you not between the flank of the splendid
Lion-hearted amidst disasters laughing?

12. At his presence time hides its face, and meets
The glory of kings, and slaves' lowliness.