1. I said that reason was my guide
But it led me astray

2. I tried my reason but it wasn’t
A path to the truth for me

3. In the journey of life my conscience
Will be what I rely upon

4. And I grew to hate reason for it
Bound me with its pointers

5. Who will give me a reason that won’t
Stray from the best path?

6. Reason in man isn’t
Better than conscience

7. Unless it is fulfilled, then it is
Of the finest caliber

8. And everything has changed
Even I am bored

9. Except my conscience, it still
Hasn’t changed until today

10. Reason raises me up
But conscience represents me

11. No doubt, cleverness is an ornament
For the gathering

12. Or that for the genius it melts
West of the blade

13. And it works, if its party is a party
In place of the mob

14. But it is silent in its hesitation
In front of the problem

15. I am in an age of racing
And woe to the negligent!

16. I am in the age of airplanes
That the traveler rides

17. I am in the age of electricity
And what lights it has

18. An age of bliss, smiling
And perfect happiness

19. The era of crying has passed
To be stored away

20. Conscience was guiding me
In the first days

21. When reason coddled it
Like a coddled child

22. Until when it grew up it tried
To stab it mortally

23. It came close to destroying what
It built in life with a pickaxe

24. I bent over it, crushing it
It kneeled down, submitting

25. As for conscience, it continued on
Neither fleeing nor turning away

26. What the bird did became
In the claws of a young eagle

27. But my reason today, how feeble
The rope, the loosened joint!

28. I still slip because of it
From the best path

29. So I returned from it to conscience
Releasing my reason

30. Today in the manners of life
I rely on conscience

31. I plead to it
And I praised my pleading

32. The days struck me in old age
With a blow

33. But I didn’t complain
To the days or kneel down

34. No pride in holding out
A weapon to an unarmed warrior

35. I am not to blame for the sin
Reason committed in rebellion

36. I have never lied in my life
To obtain something not mine

37. I have never been dishonest in my life
With the revealed Book

38. I still sing the virtues
Of the Prophet who was sent

39. I am not responsible for the whims
Of an invalid mind

40. It still states its opinions
Whether asked or not

41. My reason wanted, after thinking
And long reflection

42. By God, to solve problems
But it became the biggest problem

43. What would hurt us if this universe
Remained without an explanation?

44. I don’t want in explaining it
To please people in ignorance

45. And my reason says, and hoping
Is the steed of imagining

46. The past of the universe returns
With us to the future

47. And this earth returns
After its destruction as it was before

48. To play the role that
Already passed, the best player

49. And we return to live as we were
Without changing

50. And we die, then we return in its cycles
In order

51. He who said that the grave
Is the final house lied

52. This, by my life, is not what
My reason sees fully

53. But the Prince says to me
With proof, don’t worry

54. Religion is the fortress of its people
And religion is the strongest fortress

55. By God, I don’t know when
The night of blindness will clear up

56. I take the articles of faith
From the Book sent down

57. Not as my intrusive mind
Deduced them

58. I fear a fire in Hell
In which the sinner will burn

59. As for the Bridge, it is
Over Hell like a blade

60. Or it is a bridge like the stalk
Of a leaning palm tree

61. No one walking its edge is safe
From falling over

62. Unless he crosses the Bridge
Over Hellfire on embers

63. Or over a ram whose horns
In its head are like a pickaxe

64. O Lord, when I pass over it
Walking, in You I trust

65. O Lord, fear of Your Bridge
Extended burdens me

66. Crossing over it is difficult for me
O Lord, steady my feet!

67. Good fortune to one who lived far
From the people of Hell

68. As for Paradise, it is
An enclosed garden

69. Whatever you wish of maidens and youths
And good food

70. In every spot, wide-eyed
For every wide-eyed one

71. And I wished to wake up drunk
On the smooth drink

72. And for a kiss I obtained
From a languid-eyed houri

73. And I tasted a cup filled
From the hand of an agile, dark-eyed one