1. O people!
In death there is a lesson

2. For an affair not built to last
Whatever you have elevated as great

3. Is not death our destiny?
Then where is the fear and caution?

4. I saw death leaves
No one behind and spares none

5. For the hastening succession of generations
As the sun and moon run their course

6. God be glorified! What can days construct
And strangers demolish?

7. What remains for the youth
Neither small nor great?

8. And a funeral bier never stops
As a group walks with it

9. I saw the armies of the dead
So tears flooded my eyes

10. They have no robes or shrouds
Where they are now, only clay and soil

11. Their house ceilings where they were
Are dust and ruins

12. Perhaps they were absent after being around
And they had always been present

13. Perhaps they had always set out
To pleasures and innovations

14. But the departure has taken them
To a journey, the greatest

15. And they have become like
Scattered rumors

16. Long they lived and long they enjoyed
But their homes are now destroyed

17. No eye or trace left
Contemplate, O deceived one

18. Before contemplation escapes you
For everything you esteemed

19. Is insignificant in death
Be not deceived by the world

20. For all of it is a mirage
And say to those deluded by it

21. Hold back! Do not rush!
For the farthest extent of ambition

22. Between us is the grave
Thus proceeds the days among us

23. Both sweet and bitter