1. The creation's jewels differ
And rarely do their secrets foster virtue

2. And rarely pure remain their natures
Yet uprise their inward and outward worth, exalted

3. And mankind in this world have every faith in what is contrived
Yet Time circles to rapid fall

4. No good in this world illumes he of sight
Whose insight fails him now

5. Had our recalling of death kept pace
No recaller would living pleasure know

6. How oft we're orphaned of trusted kin
And fellows in whose company we dwell

7. Where are the kings and where's their pride
Reduced to that fate you will endure

8. Our path to death is shared by all
Great and small come to its reckoning

9. Whoso in God great stores maintains
Shall see his treasures manifest dawn's light divine

10. Saved from demise and his treasure yet his
Flows fortune's joy through him entire

11. Oh you the death angel summons now
No doubt but drop all else and fly to meet

12. Have you reflected on ruins lately bared
Where but yesterday resided guards atop their steeds so proud

13. On she the veil of whom is lowered now
And council seats from which is he now barred

14. And cities which for him no more allow
Their hosts like armies to parade

15. And whom Time humiliates when breath is ceased
As tribes their bond with him untie

16. Entombed, confined till Judgment Day
Wherein his grave the pebbles pry

17. His handsome face decays and pleasure flees him
Only ruin hides him from the light

18. His neighbor shuns him for his plight
His friend from afar forsakes him quite

19. Oh coveter of Dunya profit vain
Oh vying might you shall not maintain

20. Take what appeared that you might gain
For death, the end, shall you attain