1. Why should I not hope for mercy from the Almighty
When rain is sought in the darkest clouds?

2. Fate's passing eras resemble each other
The last being the same as the first.

3. Time the turner makes its circuits short
Until counted among the longest spans.

4. Reason rebukes while nature alongside prohibition
Is like the elephant struck on its head with a mallet.

5. Your world answered its king’s call
Among its sons was the voice of the wretched.

6. It roams above the sedentary as though it were
A pregnant camel turned loose in an enclosure.

7. Poverty in life is more fickle than wealth
And death leaves one as helpless as a lame she-camel.

8. Even if stock came to you with riches
The least harmful is a shifty fox.

9. One places hope in the distant
Like messengers, hoped for at the fires of Shuwal.

10. How much wealth did the settled gain with effort
While the eager strove and returned unrewarded.

11. I have seen the worst of neighbors encompass his neighbor
Like the grinding stone wrenched out with the tent peg.