1. Whoever seeks help from other than Allah will not be helped
And whoever prides himself on the Most Merciful will not be disgraced

2. The most free of people is he whose inner thoughts
Are pure of the intrusion of hatred and resentment

3. Reckon your conscience and you'll be safe from its obstacles
And restrain it from the perils of eyes and ears

4. And arise when you falter in the decline of years
Arise alert from the heedlessness of old age

5. Appealing through the Messenger of Allah and his daughter
Her husband, and al-Husayn the pure, and al-Hasan

6. And don't let the secret of a happy life deceive you
For its end is anxiety and grief

7. He whom you used to remember will make you forget death
As if before death, you never were

8. And every brother will turn away from you after burial
And only righteous deeds will enter the shroud

9. And know, my sacrifice, that truthfulness is best
Whether you commit yourself in secret or openly

10. Without Abu al-'Izz's truthful intention
In word and deed, he would not have escaped ordeals

11. And God revealed in them his innocence
What was never imagined or supposed before

12. It did not harm him that fate opposed him
And that his days betrayed him and he did not betray