1. Take the advices of your father, my pillar
You are more worthy of them before connecting with me

2. I have not begotten despite being hostage to the praiseworthy
Of the one who brought me into existence among the Arab nation

3. The hand of fate extracted you from non-existence
So I was not in you, O savior, but a cause

4. I was nothing but an intermediary for the one who created you
So recognize his rights and recognize my inferior lineage after him

5. O Mustafa the grandfather who guided from the misguidance of aberrance to
The light of guidance, so resurrect attributed to the two best clans

6. Were it not for the invaders, Sfax would have been my country
Not Tunis my sublime homeland and my desire

7. To God belong Ottoman swords that rescued
My country and my family and what came to you across eras

8. The first is the stalwart opener of them
And the other is the Khan from my grandfather to whom he was attributed

9. The family of Hussein and they are his ministers thereby
O treasurer esteeming from the title

10. These are your origins, join the branches to them
A noble progeny with what you were given from lineage

11. And serve your country and raise the status of its nation
For serving the people is the most honorable of positions

12. And make your tongue like the Quran its logic
For kin is preserved by morals and etiquette

13. And treat people neither out of fear nor greed
But for the sake of God the best trustee

14. And love His servants and hate their wrongdoings in it
And bring down forbearance in them in place of anger

15. And make the bitter sweet and trivialize its displeasures
And ascend with your ambition high with the stars

16. Life is misery so endure it therein
From the side of grace since toil is inevitable

17. Beware of bewilderment, wonder and arrogance in what
Radiates externally and avoid suspicion

18. And scorn death and venerate it in body
And in feeling and live for seriousness not play

19. And if you err then look to beauty and say
Glory to its Granter, glory to my aspirant

20. Witness its drinkers and look at their gambling
Everyone stripped of mind and purpose

21. And be just to your opponents and make yourself their judge
Truth suits you more than the cure of lies

22. And restrain the reckless before their ruin
Whoever neglects himself casts himself into affliction

23. And if the singing captivates and entices you
Beware of falling between distraction and enchantment

24. The voice of conscience if it sings with its nightingales
Is the voice of truth alluring to the attracted

25. And in nature for the insightful is his vision
In it is knowledge that suffices books

26. So fill your lute with wisdom imbued
Pure among people, sweeter than strumming

27. And wearing clothes from creation is praiseworthy, pouring unto you
People from every dune and flatland

28. And work with your knowledge what benefits you in the hereafter
The planted are harvested in the fertile field

29. Vanquish others by bestowing goodness upon them
And with it set up for them traps of gold

30. With righteousness whether you took revenge
From your enviers you have not deviated from the flames

31. And obey motherhood in she who you burdened
With carrying, birth, nursing while you were a child

32. And show her compassion she who shared my liver with you
The compassion of siblings preserved from hunger

33. I advise you both with what the God advised
So obey it as this is the pinnacle of duty

34. I dictated it in wisdom through poetry in rhythm
A treasure for its keeper from the best gains

35. These my son are my testaments if you act upon them
You will attain my pleasure as you attained the pleasure of your father