1. We are but dust, returning to dust
And there we reap what we sow

2. O gatherer of wealth all your life
Where is what we gathered yesterday?

3. If the world belonged to one person
He would still be greedy for more

4. But when death comes to him
He empties his kingdom unwillingly

5. A tiny seed of good deeds
Is richer and more beneficial than a great treasure

6. This is your companion on the road while others
Depart, and you won’t see them when they bid farewell

7. Why do I preach when I’m the one
Who needs preaching that strikes the ears

8. I see lessons yet I do not see
And when I hear it's as if I do not hear

9. How many advisers forbid their brother
What he inevitably commits every day

10. He still excuses himself for his actions
And blames the doer and deters him

11. Your world is like a flirtatious bride
But the veil is upon us, not her

12. The seducer of minds deceives its people
Like magic overwhelming those who see it and duping them

13. It grew old as we grew old but we never
Had opportunity for asceticism and solitude

14. In the heart of every young man
Is an obsession with it, and it shakes the minds

15. When the infatuation spreads in an arena
The four directions become too narrow for its procession

16. Our obsession overpowered our minds so we gained
A touch of madness with which we stand up and collapse

17. The old man resembles the young man, both
Passionately enamored with it until death

18. Oh Youssef, you well-mannered one who left us
With great sorrow like an emigrant who does not return

19. You are merciful even over your grave
Your tomb drinks tears as it once drank milk

20. You were kind to the poor yet you never
Coveted the money of the wealthy

21. Comfort and amiability were yours, sometimes
Healing the sick with your good spirit

22. A trait inherited from your father
Since you were an infant suckling milk

23. It continued to cure the illness which when
It afflicted you, you could not find a cure

24. You immediately answered the call of the King
To whom all souls submit

25. And you willingly accepted the order of Him whom you pleased
And your whole life passed pleasing Him

26. And those whom people wish would live
Stayed while death did not touch them

27. But in its neglect our fleeting world
Forgets those whose lives are of no use