1. Come sustainer of the living, quickly,
Modesty and shame have certainly perished.

2. And death is the rest of Hibraizi,
A fatal disease has harmed his mind.

3. Why am I not the advisor of my own self,
And my affairs do not obey advisors?

4. I have searched for people of faith,
Who have devotion but no pretense.

5. I found beasts without intellects,
No evidence can guide them nor light.

6. And brothers of wit in affectation,
As if they were prophets to a nation.

7. As for the latter they are scheming folk,
And as for the first they are fools.

8. If piety is confused and dimwitted,
Then the most pious are the lowliest.

9. And more rightly guided than you is a one-eyed camel
Bowed under a burden, blown by rough winds.

10. I have found all people to be poor,
And the wealthy are absent among mankind.

11. We love life, hating death,
Yet we are miserable by what we desire.

12. A man dies having no loyal friend,
Though yesterday the loyal were magnificent.

13. Do you know that the sun has splendor,
Then regrets that dusk takes it away?