لَو صَحَّ ماقالَ رَسطاليسُ مِن قِدَمٍ

وَهَبَّ مَن ماتَ لَم يَجمَعُهُمُ الفَلَكُ

If what Rustam said were true, that the dead would not be resurrected

And what my doctrine is, that they will be raised in scattered groups

وَمَذهَبي في البَرايا كَونَهُم شِيَعاً

كَالثَلجِ وَالقارِ مِنهُ الجَونُ وَالحَلَك

Like snow and hail, some being transformed and some dissolved

Ham did not turn black because of a sin he had committed

ما اِسوَدَّ حامٌ لِذَنبٍ كانَ أَحدَثَهُ

لَكِن غَريزَةُ لَونٍ خَطَّها المَلِكُ

But rather the complexion of a color that the King had decreed

If there were no human beings above us in the sky

إِن لَم يَكُن في سَماءٍ فَوقَنا بَشَرٌ

فَلَيسَ في الأَرضِ أَو ماتَحتَها مَلَكُ

Then there would be no angels on earth or beneath it

How many nations have settled where the living dwelt

كَم حَلَّ حَيثُ تَبَنّى الحَيُّ مِن أُمَمٍ

ثُمَّ اِنقَضوا وَسَبيلاً واحِداً سَلَكوا

Then perished, all having trodden a single path

If you ask reason for news about the ancients

إِن تَسأَلِ العَقلَ لا يوجِدكَ مِن خَبَرٍ

عَنِ الأَوائِلِ إِلّا أَنَّهُم هَلَكوا

It will tell you nothing except that they perished