1. For every bird an accident's occurrence is destined
And for the world with its people, anguish.

2. You wish for safety in the abode of tribulations
Yet cease not from startling events that make you anxious.

3. At times, disasters may console the aggrieved one
At other times, in sorrow, his anguish is redoubled.

4. These are the terms and decrees that take their course
According to the measure ofstrife, hardships are ladled.

5. These are lineages that manners make grow
According to their origins, branches are ennobled.

6. These are the days that reap every crop grown
For the day of their harvest, crops were sown.

7. The soul desires and passions grow
Thus, its owner's heart knows no humility.

8. Ceaselessly spins the wheel of disasters
Ceaselessly banned is the assembled company.

9. Suspended by its lip, death hovers
While above its brow, the sly end lurks.

10. I saw a man pretending loftiness
While the scent of decay from him oozed.

11. I wondered at one who dies with no tears shed for him
I wondered that for another, tears are fully shed.