1. O descendant of the exemplary clan of Bakr
Who attained glory without any disgrace

2. Master diverse sciences, for every merit
Has been gathered in both land and sea by knowledge

3. Do not ever tire or seek a substitute
And meet it with affirmation and contemplation

4. And avoid an ignorant one who evades it
Out of fear of poverty through various means

5. Indeed, my God has preordained rizq (sustenance)
Thus, causes are but covers for the secret

6. If we look at the means for righteousness
To attain livelihood or avert harm

7. We find that knowledge is the strongest to avert
And the most endowed with ease and honor

8. For the angels had prostrated when Adam excelled
Over them through knowledge, so remember

9. And how many people attained honor through knowledge
And how many became wealthy after hardship through it

10. I mean the knowledge of Allah's Law for us
And not the temporal knowledge of an era

11. For learning the knowledge of the times is ignorance
Suiting every misguided and atheistic person

12. So do not seek the life of this world through Allah's knowledge
For in this is disgrace and all loss

13. As for your worldly life, which you inevitably need
Seek it through the best that you see striving for a wage

14. And do not grieve over what has passed from it
For you have been compensated with the finest

15. What has passed did not vanish, but
You will see it on the Day of Spreading

16. And if you pardon, pardoning is better
And the best of people is one of pardon and patience

17. And if you are forced into a situation for something
Then ask the Most Powerful and Most Merciful of the righteous

18. One near to you, if you call upon Him, He will hasten
To Him belongs the design in creation and command

19. And think good of Allah, the Most Kind
You will find Him as such for every kindness

20. And revere His command in every situation
You will be revered among people with all might

21. And bring yourself close to Him in this world
With character that every devout scholar sees

22. You see it in the Book being recited to you
So realize it and observe it closely

23. And struggle against your self regarding it
To be endowed with perfection and good reputation

24. And avoid superfluities and all nonsense
For in this is the waste of every freeman

25. And give the neighbor and relatives their rights
Which Allah has decreed in the verses of the Reminder

26. And purify the self from envy and transgression
And meet people with kindness and glad tidings

27. And enjoin good and do not care
And forbid evil and disrepute

28. That is an advice which has come to you
Called for by my love for you, O clan of Bakr

29. For you are comfort to the eye as long as you remain
On the path of righteousness, in every era