1. The world allures us with its splendor
We feel safe, then darkness descends

2. It promises fulfillment of desires
Yet ceaselessly it shoots its arrows

3. Had we but wisdom, we’d not be fooled
By the charms it flaunts before our eyes

4. But passion harms us, desire misleads
As we vie for the jewels it dangles

5. Distraction stays, evil remains
Aiming arrows it deftly prepared

6. We hope for immortality here
While death spins its wheel round our loved ones

7. Blow after blow makes us weep
For it will grind us in its mill

8. The Merciful has watered a grave holding one
Who wore the raiment of nobility

9. And refreshed the bed of a maid of truth
Who harbored virtues when she embraced them

10. She urged others towards high ideals
And mourned for those who shunned them

11. She was a sun in the sky of merit
Brought down by death from its lofty orbit

12. The owl of death clothed her in the garb of eclipse
Did not her overflowing virtue protect her?

13. How often her gifts revived the despondent
Whom misfortunes had consigned to her care

14. How often she nurtured with her bounty an orphan
Whose mother perished before weaning him

15. If she died, her charm died not
If she went, she took her loftiness with her

16. For she left shining achievements
That speak of her loftiness in her stead

17. He who sires one such as you, cousin
Has stored up praise and acquired it in full

18. Bear it with patience and fortitude
To be rewarded beyond measure

19. Grieve not, for soon we shall drink
The poison it made her drink

20. May God grant her the best of steeds
And sanctify her soul and water her tomb

21. The gardens of eternity continue to send her
The sweetest scents that they exhale