1. The follies of youth are borrowed garments
So leave youth and abandon its dwellings

2. Let not empty pleasures distract you from greatness
Alluring glances that adorn their arms with bracelets

3. The beginnings of love are sweet
But its ends turn bitter

4. What excuse for one like you, having discarded
In the drunkenness of pleasure, his modesty

5. After having tied the waist-wrap tightly
When youthfulness flourished in his time

6. What pride that a young man awakes
With a huge frame and bulging muscles

7. Preoccupied with drinking wine
Known for romancing maidens behind curtains

8. His sitting room abandoned; no guests visit his house
The pride is that a young man angers his enemies

9. And honors his neighbor
And protects his reputation

10. And rages against the slanderer like fire
And strives either for leadership

11. Or for the ministry and governance
Competent in writing, discourse and eloquence

12. With resolute determination, avoiding disgrace
As if, from his shrewdness and penetration, he is

13. A spark that is feared and hoped for
And seen as noble and eminent

14. In a revered procession, as if
The night had clothed him in a cloak

15. Tribes boast of him, the dust scattering
From their shoulders when he nods

16. And the sons of the deserted encampments
Prolong their watching for his caravans

17. So strive for new or old glory
And raise its minaret high

18. And build for yourself through greatness a condition
And be of beautiful character

19. And establish for it a market that spends on it
And brings it trade

20. Do not live uselessly and avoid
That which the noble fear its shame

21. And if the best foods are unavailable to you
Then eat stones