Number 13

Iraqi style
English

Number 13

The dead lie fallen; hear the news of them, like wood cut down and laid low, above and below. Whoever stays alive will keep on living; you will not die until you are ruined and worn away.
Explanation: This is in a Gorani/Dilami dialect, so some words are uncertain; the reading follows the summary's theme of survival and life enduring until the body itself is destroyed.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۱۳

مرده دیلم چو اویان نیوه بشنیر بِبُر چویان دیلم به بر و ژیر
هر که ژیونده بو ببو اج اویان نمیری تا که ویران و نبو پیر