1. Be quick in need or wait patiently,
The passing of days is not slow within us.

2. Living and time are deceitful,
And the youth does not don the garb of old age.

3. My indifference keeps troubles away from me.
Harm slept, and did not awaken to me,

4. Before time could speak in censure
Of elders, from excessive foolishness and ignorance.

5. When the stars of Thurayya are called Thurayya,
And Suhayl in the sky is called Suhayl,

6. Lujayn is a greatness of pronunciation,
And Lujaym likewise, the morals of Suhayl.