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  • از نصیحتهای تو کر بوده‌ام  ** بت‌شکن دعوی و بت‌گر بوده‌ام 
  • I have been deaf to Thy admonitions: while professing to be an idol-breaker, I have (really) been an idol-maker.
  • یاد صنعت فرض‌تر یا یاد مرگ  ** مرگ مانند خزان تو اصل برگ 
  • Is it more incumbent (on me) to think of Thy works or of death? (Of death): death is like autumn, and Thou art (the root which is) the origin of the leaves.”
  • سالها این مرگ طبلک می‌زند  ** گوش تو بیگاه جنبش می‌کند 
  • For years this death has been beating the drum, (but only when it is) too late is your ear moved (to listen).
  • گوید اندر نزع از جان آه مرگ  ** این زمان کردت ز خود آگاه مرگ 
  • In his agony he (the heedless man) cries from his (inmost) soul, “Alas, I am dying!” Has Death made you aware of himself (only) now?
  • این گلوی مرگ از نعره گرفت  ** طبل او بشکافت از ضرب شگفت  775
  • Death's throat is exhausted with shouting: his drum is split with the astounding blows (with which it has been beaten).
  • در دقایق خویش را در بافتی  ** رمز مردن این زمان در یافتی 
  • (But) you enmeshed yourself in trivialities: (only) now have you apprehended the mystery of dying.
  • تشبیه مغفلی کی عمر ضایع کند و وقت مرگ در آن تنگاتنگ توبه و استغفار کردن گیرد به تعزیت داشتن شیعه‌ی اهل حلب هر سالی در ایام عاشورا به دروازه‌ی انطاکیه و رسیدن غریب شاعر از سفر و پرسیدن کی این غریو چه تعزیه است 
  • Comparison of (the behaviour of) the heedless man who wastes his life and (only) begins to repent and ask pardon (of God) when he lies in extreme distress on his death-bed to the yearly mourning of the Shí‘ites of Aleppo at the Antioch Gate (of the city) during the ‘Áshúrá; and how a poet, who was a stranger, arrived (there) on his journey and asked what was the cause of these shrieks of mourning.
  • روز عاشورا همه اهل حلب  ** باب انطاکیه اندر تا به شب 
  • On the Day of ‘Áshúrá all the people of Aleppo gather at the Antioch Gate till nightfall,
  • گرد آید مرد و زن جمعی عظیم  ** ماتم آن خاندان دارد مقیم 
  • Men and women, a great multitude, and keep up a constant lamentation for the (Holy) Family.
  • ناله و نوحه کنند اندر بکا  ** شیعه عاشورا برای کربلا 
  • During the ‘Áshúrá the Shí‘ites wail and lament with tears and sobs on account of Karbalá.
  • بشمرند آن ظلمها و امتحان  ** کز یزید و شمر دید آن خاندان  780
  • They recount the oppressions and tribulations which the (Holy) Family suffered at the hands of Yazíd and Shimr.