1. I live on, though if death came I would not blame it
I'm a rose, though if picked I'd lose all my sweetness

2. I’ve passed twenty, and mock my youth that’s fading
Yet as it leaves me its sorrows are redoubled

3. Would my youth had quickly passed its prime
Its joy left me, its loss shall stay for all time

4. Would my riches from youth had swiftly departed
Its cheer departed, yet its loss remains started

5. Grey hairs have stolen sleep away from my eyes
What when their horde on my head multiplies?

6. Time's learned me with its trials and its peace
And taught me with its war, and the wars cease

7. The deluded who's happy with fate should know
Behind joy lies sorrow that will overthrow

8. So how could I be happy with plentiful wealth
When the wise say: be content with little health

9. Man is but prey for a night and a day
Dawn shines but briefly, then fades away

10. Chilled by life, yet stirred by the wind's breath
Far from fate’s strife, but close to death

11. It drew him despite his mother’s care
For all meet the touch of mortality there

12. We seek deliverance, yet each one wears
The cloak of death according to what fates prepares

13. The best provision? What answers a need
The best companion? He who’s fault I heed

14. Better to live in honor poor than rich
And eat a meal seasoned with dishonor’s pitch

15. Lewdness is far from me, I shun its guilt
I’m satisfied if from wrong I’m tilt

16. Restraining one’s sword is no valiance true
Curbing one's temper is what heroes do

17. I spurn all pleasure that would mar my name
Or let my honor be exposed to shame

18. I shun seeking wealth, be it loss or blame
And turn from gain if it would hurt my name

19. I pardon, though lewdness is far from me
To turn from evil’s enough propriety

20. He flees not vice whose sword stays in its sheath
But he does so whose wisdom shuns mischief

21. I care not for things which give no delight
The dear heart, not wealth, should be pursued aright

22. Blame not the faint who shun vain pursuit
Sustenance comes to those content and mute

23. My wants remain unquenched, though much I've gained
My search unfinished, though long I've strained

24. If such betrayal is man's nature true
Then man's own will should be what he stays true

25. When Zayd forgot our pact, I knew aright
Though still inside me longed our bond tight

26. I cured him with estrangement, his only cure
The cure for sickness is to make its course pure

27. Doubt the tales spread by those jealous creatures
Lacking truth, their knowledge has narrow features

28. Calamity could not make his saddle slip
Nor foolishness make him lose his wise grip

29. Heavy on the flanks of enemies, yet light
On his steed's back despite his mass outright

30. My hands are like a resolute man’s hands
My arrows strike their targets where God commands

31. Marching on though fools sneer and rail
Sated with blame except yours, which will never fail

32. Time has me, if it wounds in its pace
But no place from me if it seeks my grace

33. I tire those who turn enemy to you
Those who never bound honor to you

34. I lived as enviers preferred, their company
They took the profit while the loss belongs to me

35. Wise, they avoid misguided, murky paths
Shunning mixed waters to drink the purer draughts

36. Right, to shun what would not delight one
To bring joy, not sadness, to a life that's won

37. On a camel, racer of fearful racetracks
Where will its desired finally bring it back?

38. Leaving my loves to the guesses of fate
On the far road, to conjecture their state

39.
No life, unless sorrows mixed in its joy

40. Or escaped what gives misery employ
An army whose tents the darkness spread

41. Alike if on sand or grass their carpets laid
Seeking only to flee when the time's left

42. For the coward, better to earn spoils bereft
I'll ransom with my soul men of glorious Quraysh

43. Who, called to war, glutted the beasts with their flesh
Cursed be he who left your side for another

44. No thought but of you inside this lover
I envy the wilderness that can cover him whole