1. Shall I blame my fate or myself shall I blame
And trust in one who trials have pursued

2. How many a friend I hoped for at adversities
As a support, yet more troubles accrued

3. So many friends when you count them
Yet how few when calamities intrude

4. Many a friend I hoped would help me
Yet he was like a lightning that flashed and fled

5. I saw a mirage appear and knew
It was but phantom hopes that misled

6. Many a youth I hoped would grace me with kindness
Yet with harm he graced me instead

7. With lies he promised, with stinginess he gave
So failed my hopes and himself misled

8. He hopes for what will never be, so vile his greed
With words he promises, yet his word is dead

9. Erase him, let him not live, for he
Though present in form, in spirit has fled

10. Without Paradise, roots would not thrive
Without hopes, none would strive

11. Every envious one fails to rise high
Their envy condemned by creeds

12. Some pride themselves on hypocrisy
And reckon guile as a skill, ill gains indeed

13. Lo, God denied bliss to the ungrateful soul
Though clouds rained favors as their needs

14. Our hands have rained more rains than clouds
With good and ill, deeds suit their seeds

15. Mankind is but two kinds: a loyal ally
Who walks the right path, and one who recedes

16. Such is time, so bear patiently
Now overcoming, now being defeated

17. Though time betrays me and vexes me too
My spirit cannot be defeated

18. Though clouds shrouded our dawn
Yet the Chosen One made our end most sweet

19. With my zeal, not armies, am I esteemed
Fine are our merits made complete

20. Tell our foes, our tongues are blades
To those who warred, yet we sheathed our swords discreet

21. Warn him not to rouse what he cannot endure
Tell him: if the lion roars, beware its leap

22. Ask him, though ignorant of its might
How many fangs and claws make its enemies weep

23. From God, the Overseer, expect calamity
On the instant, abased is the conceited

24. A star of Saud, blissful our fate
When plots against us the fools seeded

25. When in the dark they plotted snares
At dawn, the vultures lament defeated

26. For we are the dawns when day breaks
And we are the stars when night falls in greeting

27. We are lamps when darkness spreads
Lighting the lost through the gloom retreating

28. O heart, befriend those true in affection
With certainty, leave those of ways deceitful

29. Leave behind those of no faith or loyalty
And take those whose gifts are bountiful

30. God alone - hope not in another truly -
And hold fast, the finest friend and peaceful

31. All mankind are gripped in His fist of power
He steers as He wills, and He is victorious

32. Complete with praise of God, and most pure prayers
Upon the one with whom the Lord of creation spoke

33. To the highest, most exalted place near Him
None were barred by the Keeper of the Heavenly Cloak