أَلا كُلُّ شَيءٍ غيرَ ربّكَ زائلٌ
وكلٌّ سوى الباقي خَدينُ فناءِ
Behold, everything save your Lord shall pass away,
and all save the Everlasting is the intimate companion of extinction.
ألَم ترَ هذا القبرَ قد ضمّ دُرّةً
غَدَت تَزدَري بِالحُسنِ بدرَ السماءِ
Have you not seen this grave? It has enfolded a pearl
that, in beauty, came to scorn heaven’s full moon.
دَعاهُ مِنَ الرّضوانِ داعٍ أَجابَه
وَسارَ سَريعاً نَحو دارِ البقاءِ
A caller from Paradise summoned him, and he answered;
and swiftly he journeyed toward the Abode of Eternity.
ومُذْ كان عزُّ الدين كان مقرّهُ
بتاريخه عزّى جنانَ الرضاءِ
And since he was ʿIzz al-Dīn, his resting place was—
as its chronogram has it—“He consoled the heart of contentment.”
Sol 5.6