1. Say to him who boastfully counted the years,
"O companion, the secret is not in the number of years,

2. But in how a person lives them,
Whether awake or in deep slumber."

3. Get up and count thousands of years on pebbles,
Do you count that as a virtue for the pebbles?

4. Better than boundless deserts,
Is a small garden measured in steps.

5. Be a flower or a melody in a flower,
For glory is for flowers and melodies.

6. Months walk smiling over roses,
And sleep depressed in thorns.

7. Some die barren before their death,
While others live forever in moments.

8. Minutes are counted on the living,
While years are not counted on the dead.

9. Life without achievements is empty,
Like an abandoned house and the deceased.

10. It is deeds that make years majestic and beautiful,
Not what the years contain of goodness.