1. Few are those who keep affection long
So care not whether one's near or far

2. When nights themselves are fickle
How can love in the heart endure?

3. Who are you to expect a heart unsullied
When every heart holds shades of black?

4. Do not give your love to a friend
Thinking him true, never to turn back

5. In all affairs, keep to the middle way
To be safe from what you fear in obstinacy

6. Dealing gently with men is lighter
Upon a person than promoting vice

7. One lives beloved if he keeps straight
In his conduct, the right purpose in sight

8. The world is but want and greed
The root of man's nature, we see it outright

9. Without want, there'd be no cordiality
Without greed, there'd be no hostility

10. Men befriend each other only
For benefit, or to avoid enmity

11. Only fear of the Sultan or of consequence
Keeps hatred from boiling point, we can see

12. Although not son of Abu, art yet like me
Both of us plants for the harvest to be

13. Look, can you see any trace, for I
See all traces vanish like ashes in breeze

14. A person's life in this world is mirage
And all things come to end, none will last, we foresee

15. Happy the one who defeats his passion
With wisdom, and so lives rightly guided