1. You have wasted the night away, so prepare your belongings,
The best of lands is the one that carries you.

2. There is no good in a place, however pleasing,
If your hopes are not fulfilled there.

3. I am not of those who show weakness or superiority
If you support those who betrayed you.

4. I will turn away from the generous and describe him,
And be harsh to those who were unjust or ignorant to you.

5. Worry is a disease that will not leave you
Unless you cure it by abandonment, or it kills you.

6. So be dignified even if dishonor has befallen you,
And guard your soul from doubters, and you will succeed.

7. What man seeks the heights of glory
While the times have preoccupied you?

8. Illness has left you weakened, and time
Has taken back what it bestowed on the stingy.

9. Without your people you will not see
Your crazed horses or your foals.

10. So do not wrong him out of hatred,
For time will judge you as it judges him.

11. Where will you find loyal friends when
Mankind is of two types: roasted or raw?

12. Your enemies are the ignorant or
Those jealous of you and your deeds.

13. No good in a group of wicked people
Who fear neither your book nor your messengers.

14. Hasten not to saddle the steeds or
Work for the main goal of your camels.

15. Death has lurked waiting for its destined hour
As if it could avert your death.

16. How clear is your weakness in my view
And how much after this is your shame!

17. You have stayed long in their land, yet
Your sorrow does not lessen your resolve.

18. Fate has not granted me my needs
Nor has the cycle of planets favored me.

19. Better for you to find a man superior
One day, or exceeding your superiority.

20. The mark of generosity is to deprive one
Who envied or opposed you.

21. You are a sword sheathed, which if drawn
Would slash like an unsheathed blade.

22. You are the messenger of prohibition sent
To an ignorant imposter not guided by your arguments.

23. You are armor against fears - if worn
In adversities, you would prevail or be martyred.

24. You are a steed confined and unable to gallop
If released today stretching to full speed.

25. Let your reproach be upon one who wished you ill
And if he did not, then make him your bosom friend.

26. Console the estranged with your knowledge
That you have abandoned many who consoled you.

27. If tomorrow you have protection from the enemies' blades,
Do not fear the clamor nor dread the discord.

28. The smooth way out of hardship is to join together,
And who sealed his tear made whole his rending.

29. Fate punished you not for a crime
Nor on a day when you slipped into error.

30. It is as if the excused one in the midst of a case
Had his argument affirmed but forgot his proofs.

31. How few are the noble souls,
And how abundant, oh Fate, are your lowly ones!

32. O captain of horse and hearts alike
I passionately aspire to join you in fear of separation.

33. You ignore my hopes of your approval
Whether a comrade brought us together or fortune did.

34. Why then did you approach without an excuse?
Let the desperate kiss you or kiss you.

35. Still I yearn while you are busy
At times with your ornaments, at others idle.

36. I have fled far, O gazelle, and if
I felt safe for an hour, I would incline toward you.

37. For I love the gazelle, so how could I intend
To meet your arrow or your spear?

38. If today promises union tomorrow,
The promise has cheated me, or you have delayed.

39. My heart preserves a devotion to your love
Even as my ear has lost your blame.

40. You are of the generation of this age, so I dread
Only your paucity or your possession.

41. Drive on the riding camels, O guide of night,
And hasten the debt of the Sublime before you.

42. God did not create you for generosity
If you oppose the order of Revelation.

43. So fortify your resolve and make it a brother
To your departure, tread the path you are guided.

44. Perhaps if you do not put it forth you will not reach
The springs of generosity or sweet waters.

45. How fair are rhyme's measures, the ways of desolation!
How excellent amid their sea is your sand dune!

46. How many dawning horizons have we cloven,
From the night's darkness and from dawn's halves beneath your protection!

47. But strive on, for if you fail, no surprise,
And be content with what sustains you and your raiment.