1. My children, be guided in what I was guided
The most honorable of people is one who guides

2. I was heedless for a time, not knowing what guidance was
And that was straying from my own straying

3. But when God wanted to guide me and draw me near
He illuminated for me the path of truth and guided me

4. So I cast off error for guidance and righteousness
And set out towards the manifest Hanifiyya

5. And I came to Jesus son of Mary as a guide
Upright, so the Messiah called me a disciple

6. My children, fear God who is your Lord
Blessed you are through Him in what He blessed and guided me

7. That we may worship Him alone without any partners
To ward off trials through Him and calamities

8. And believe in the Gospel and the scriptures
Through which those who recite revelation are guided

9. My children, I accompanied people and then came to know them
The best of them I found were the most aware

10. And I found their elders of status and position
Upright, forbidding indecency and slander

11. And I found their fools with every chieftain
Misleading, making the clan go astray

12. My children, safeguard the rights of your neighbor
And do not fail in recurring kindnesses

13. And kindle the flames of hospitality
So the guest who arrives finds warmth

14. And do not initiate war against those
Who have not been hostile and oppressive

15. And whatever you sow, my children, it
Will reap one day what was planted wholesome