1. For whom are ruins that misdeeds have not desisted from,
So keep away, ink-filled pens have dried out and gifts ceased.

2. The dwellings of Bani Sa'd ibn Tha'labah aforetime
Through which time broadcast against people afflictions.

3. Thus it destroyed them as it destroyed people before them,
The onslaughts of wars and deaths with their conclusions.

4. Indeed, how many living persons have we seen there,
For them were predecessors whose tracks are effaced.

5. So turn to what your property suffices you; verily
You have burdened yourself with things that will not last.