1. I saw the desert between a vanishing past
And a new future that fades into non-existence

2. We live to fade away, and fade away for what
Comes after us to live on and be born

3. Our birth and death are equal to us
Since we have no hand in either

4. And that equality between us is in them both
While the difference between them is in us, manifest

5. My friend, if time is as I see it
Then my day is enough for me, and tomorrow will be for you

6. The nights have pelted me with adversities in my youth
Saying 'Awaken, this is what you were promised'

7. Patience fails you in your time, so be sparing with it
And hoard it ever since you were a child

8. I rejoiced while still nursing a painful wound from fate
As if I'm a scabbard and time an unsheathed sword

9. If the scabbard of a sword isn't like its blade
Keen-edged, its naked blade shows while sheathed

10. Greetings from God Most High, and mercy
Upon those whose hearts stood firm with Him

11. Greetings upon the face of the Friend, though his fire
Still blazes in hearts for his loss

12. He who, when the men were counted, stood alone
For they were many, but he was peerless

13. He stripped himself for God, and never ceased
To be clothed by His obedience from any blemish

14. So piety weeps for him with the lids of its people
And with tongues recounts his merits extensively

15. He walked the path of benevolence, seeking
The roads that lead where he purposed to go

16. And seeing the world as a path to eternity
He took from it the best provisions to load

17. Hardships unveiled no treasure of his patience
And even if prolonged forever, it would not be spent

18. Their blades had little effect on his body
While their frustration turned back blunted

19. But he has an endless reward from them
And settled into a shrine of precious gems

20. For in it the eggs of all virtues are incubated
The corner of sorrow gave him the tears of joy

21. To drink, so they became the most refreshing and cool
They mourn his dead body, but truly

22. They would rejoice for him, alive with an eternal soul
He traveled a path we all walk

23. So let us hasten along it most prosperously
And our bodies that escorted us on it

24. Long ago - how do they not grow accustomed?
We all forget death in negligence

25. Consumed in this life, striving away
And at death's arrival, forget our lives

26. As if their span was but a minute, vanished