1. For whom is there a life thriving on fertile meadows,
That appears like the title of a renewed book,

2. For Saadah, when she would reward with her love,
And when she would not meet you except most happily,

3. And when she was the fawn of tears as a child
Like a startled free mother gazelle,

4. She would graze in the meadows at dawn with him
And take him to soft sands at night,

5. And make him the apple of her eye in her flock
And praise his neck at every rest,

6. So she caused in the heart an illness that afflicts him,
Visiting like the bite of a lurking snake,

7. The morning she appeared from her veil as if
She adorns her cheeks with your withering,

8. And smiles with sweet lips as if it is
Meadows’ buds have just blossomed.

9. So I, to my happiness, though her absence is long,
To attaining her I live like the resolute seeker.

10. If you were not bothered by advice, and did not obey
Counsel, nor listen to a guide's words,

11. Then do not fear the blame of the whole tribe,
And defend it with your tongue and hand,

12. And overlook the ignorant ones among them and protect them,
And suppress those who threaten them,

13. And descend among them to the place in which
Virtue in life is seen over the braggart,

14. For you are not, though you justify yourself with wishes,
Of black misfortune, loss, and no mastery,

15. By your life, the riffraff do not fear my debauchery,
Nor keep away from the threatening.

16. And I do not seek the love of a man of little good,
Nor abstain from joining a friend.

17. And I put out war after its flames
Were lit for mischief at every hearth,

18. So I lit it for the oppressor persisting with it
If his opinion does not keep him from wavering,

19. And I forgive a master suspicion that makes me wrong him
If he has not harmed me out of hatred,

20. And whoever intends my injustice among them is as if
He has diminished for an instant the towering cliffs,

21. And I have an opinion that is lived well by its virtue,
And I am not ignorant of the knowledge of affairs,

22. If you take on worries as a trust,
Then you have placed it in the hands of the worst trustee.

23. I found the worries of the people like deadly pests,
And did not live free of my neighbor's worries unfulfilled.

24. Do not show love for a man before knowing him,
And after the testing of a man, then blame or praise.

25. And do not follow the opinion of one whose inner self you do not know,
Rather follow the opinion of a man of understanding.

26. And do not avoid the friendship of relatives
For wealth, but avoid distant strangers.

27. And if you have attained glory and spoils,
Return to the one you obtained that from and increase

28. Take provisions from the world, for it
Is the best supplies at every state for the well-prepared.

29. The death that Mureer Al-Qais wished for me, if I die,
That is a path in which I am not alone,

30. Perhaps the one who hopes for my loss and death
Is a fool and coward if that is his view,

31. There is no life for one who hopes for my demise to harm me,
Nor death for one who died before me to destroy me,

32. And man has days that are counted, and
The ropes of death have ensnared every watchful man,

33. His death marches to an appointed time, and his palace
Meets it one day at an unexpected moment,

34. So whoever does not die today, the rope of death
Will surely grab him tomorrow.

35. So say to the one who wants the unlike what has passed,
Prepare yourself for another like it, as if it had,

36. For we and those among us who have perished are like
One who departs and the absolute judge to take revenge,