1. Has not the time come for me to cease imposing on others and impose on myself
The resolve to improve my state?

2. Grey hairs have come upon me and my temples whitened
While my black hair became speckled with white.

3. Events have reversed on me from what I had grown accustomed to
In the prime of youth when nights used to be as they were.

4. I complain to this world but it does not answer me;
I attempt to remain but how can I remain?

5. The days do not cease casting my days behind me
Without counting, not according to my count.

6. To erase my traces and to renew what is new to me
And to empty my quarters with aversion in its place

7. Just as it had done before to Thamud and Jurhum
And 'Ad's descendants after 'Ad.

8. And I will remain lying dead amongst my family as a corpse
With my inheritance going to those who will inherit indeed.

9. I say to myself when it is inclined by its ears
To dangerous utterances, I had wished safety before.

10. Deliver me from this world! I have attained everything
I wished for or I was given beyond my wishes.

11. Do not the nights snatch away my brain
Just as they had snatched away the eras before me?

12. And make my dwelling place a grave next to a hole in which
The long nights to another will be my intercessors.

13. Just as it made the dwelling places of Sam, Ham and Japheth
And Nuh, and the one who resided in Makkah now deserted.

14. Thus my soul has become familiar with death because I have seen
Destinies harvesting my life.

15. If only after my death and resurrection,
I will be mere dust without duty or obligation.

16. I fear my God then I hope for His gifts
But my fear overcomes my hope.

17. If it were not for my hope and my dependence on He
Who alone cared for me in my old age and youth,

18. No cool water would have been palatable to me
And I would not taste the sweetness of life or cease crying

19. Over what had occurred from me in my youth
Nights in which I was disobedient to God.

20. So it is befitting that I should fear and be conscious
And though I did not associate any partner with the Owner of the Throne.

21. And I should store consciousness with the effort of my ability
And mount righteousness contrary to my passions.