XX: Many youths and maidens have the dark dust's…

Many youths and maidens have the dark dust's captives become,
The fair faces of whom are the source of the grief of our hearts!

Place not your hopes upon this transient world, for 'tis no permanent abode!
The whole of us, each in his own good time, shall follow after them!

They who were the great men of the land, and possessed the wealth thereof;
From the world have wholly disappeared, both name and trace of them.

They, before whom the poor were wont in humility to stand,
In the tomb, on their backs fallen, have now mouldered away.

For munificence and for justice their names still remain,
Though Hatim Ta-yi, and Nosherwan have long from the world departed.

Neither by power, nor by entreaty is there any escape from death:
Happy the sanctified, who are occupied with eternal things!

My heart hath become rent to atoms by the diamond of separation;
For, one after the other, all my dear friends have been severed from me.

All must hence depart: for what can Khwajah Muhammad hope,
When holy and venerated prophets have unto the dust gone down?