1. Seek God's forgiveness, the Eternal, and seek refuge in Him
From the evil of a vigorous rival among the ruins

2. Do good that does not waste away
And be gentle with your power to the weak and miserable

3. Be content, for in the life of contentment there is bounty
That the palm of time, the fading, cannot diminish

4. Do not incline towards contention, for it
Is the cause of all alienation and hatred

5. The Banu Gatafan went astray when
Their chiefs were killed in anger over Dahis

6. And al-Harith al-Bakri rose up in turmoil
After he had made the resolution of one sitting

7. The miser has become accustomed to hoarding his money
While life passes by him unheeding

8. And he passed away, then his inheritance became
A portion overflowing with the tears of the disposer

9. The Banu Jawwa sought refuge from Iblis in
This world, and how many kinds of evils are among them

10. They studied knowledge to overpower with their arguments
Minds and gatherings

11. And practiced asceticism until they found an opportunity
To take the money of mosques and churches

12. The palace of Kisra became a pasture for rabble
And his abode a resting place for brides

13. And al-Hirah al-Bayda, its charm was changed
To a pot obeyed by the cities of Persia

14. O intellect, you have no sound approach to subtleties
So if you stumble, the sleeping person is not blamed

15. As for the stars, their affair contains
The ignorance of the sensible and the deprivation of the toucher

16. My life! Those who contemplated them are gone
And they did not gain anything but whisperings

17. The saying of Ptolemy about them is not evidence for me
Nor that transmitted from Aristalis

18. People were confused - neither the insight of an observer
Comforts minds, nor the sign of a divider

19. Do not care about what their pages contain
Even if you find it in the writing of a cultivator

20. For calumny is embedded in four natures
And truthfulness is counted among the fifth type

21. How strange is a protector who argues with his opponent
About the family of Yarbu' and the clan of Habis!

22. Alas! The nobility of ancestry is of no benefit
Unless it has branches from a planted tree

23. Do not act, and if you do act, then with piety
Be virtuous and in giving noble deeds be competing