1. سألتُ المنجمَ عن طالعٍ

    لخافض

    I asked the astrologer about a horoscope

    for one who brings others low.

  2. فقالَ يَموت عَلى غَفلة

    وَيُقبَرُ في أَوّل السابعِ

    So he said: “He will die unawares,

    and be buried at the beginning of the seventh month.

  3. وَيصلى سَعيراً بِما قدّمت

    يَداه بنص مِن الشارع

    And he will burn in a blazing fire for what

    his hands have sent ahead, according to a text from the Lawgiver.”

  4. وَنبأني أَن تاريخه

    في رجبٍ قَد نُعِي

    And he told me that his chronogram read:

    “In Rajab, his death was announced.”