1. Behold, the promise of Truth is the most truthful promise
And what He has decreed for His creation cannot be undone

2. All matters will return to Him, the Exalted
As everything that exists originated from Him

3. These lifetimes are but a distance
To an appointed time with the Overseer, already counted

4. O heedless of the remembrance of death, as though
He will never be promised the cup of death

5. If it would spare you, it would spare
A youth like Abu Al 'Abbas Ahmad Dawood

6. A youth who walked the earth with ease
Content with the simplest of the world's refuse

7. He armed himself against the world, and his passion for it
Was a flowing white garment of renunciation

8. The blackness of the nights would trouble him
So the whiteness of meanings would manifest from black pages

9. Thus he came to reside in the house of blessings
In the company of lovely wide-eyed maidens, having attained all that was promised

10. And in eternity, when he met his appointed day
The maidens of Ahmad Dawood rejoiced in celebration