1. Your love of chess troubles me, O Ibrahim
This is a futile endeavor, my friend

2. It was established without righteousness
By a cursed devil, the outcast

3. It has made people play, so what wisdom is this?
The chess game brings ill fate, so avoid it, O unfortunate one

4. Let whoever wishes say what they want, but my words are straightforward
It only came with a single dowry, which is disgraceful

5. And the one who plays it will be deprived on Judgment Day
The truth of what I have whispered about it will soon be evident to the schemer

6. It is only for people whose status is grand
A king who collects taxes, or a minister or confidant

7. Or men who inherited riches to endure fate
So remember what the one who abstains from it has in his hands when he gets up

8. Is it anything but a little pleasure that does not last?
So when the house is reached, he is a loser and blamed