1. When praised, he who deserves it is deprived,
While vilifying the exalted debases oneself.

2. A residence empty of every guest,
And every hosting host, is inhabited.

3. A vessel that contained abundance and blame
When empty, is laden.

4. I see wealth as some people imagine,
That the wealth possesses them, not they it.

5. Best wealth is its measured sum for the praiseworthy,
Just as best praise is its measured sum.

6. Soundest views are those you'd think, possessed by their holder,
That he was bereft of them.

7. The composed youth, a fortress of fortresses,
Is he whom you meet, his hands his fortress.

8. Vilest of men is he who walked amongst them,
Surrendering honour, greeting disgrace.

9. Spend your money before spending your life,
For time is fickle, ephemeral.

10. Rarely does wealth benefit a miser;
In the sod, the vessels of his coveting are pledged.

11. Think not your money is a thing belonging to you,
Like blood of your veins, its best diluted.

12. Had he who hoarded wealth escaped his ruin,
So too would Qarun have escaped his.

13. Sow affection, and you'll reap it enduring,
For some of what's sown returns, milled.

14. Eat and feed, for perhaps tending gain
Bountiful and blessed, are those you nourish.

15. Do not hoard from others wealth you eat,
Nor refuse bounty, for it's refuse is vilest.

16. They who consume wealth, distract it from glory,
And hoarding benefits no man, amassed.

17. Those who imprison wealth, themselves it imprisons,
For no imprisoned jailer freedom finds.

18. God provides for those he created,
So think good thoughts, dispel doubt.

19. Think good of God, trust not in the pledges
Of a severe man whose oaths are wanton.

20. Be suspect of the suspect in all things,
And blame him, let not his oaths convince you.

21. When you expect evil, then beware it;
Many an evil is certain, though suspected.

22. Do not rest secure from suspecting foes,
Take care, else their treachery will surprise you.

23. How much ease has an enemy denied you,
When long ease made you less wary?

24. If my ordeal's prolonged, I'm not addled -
My time, nor my mind deranged.

25. Rather, I'm a lad whose nature slashes pain
When cursed, his curse returns to damn the curser.

26. Except when the owner of wealth is in debt to me -
Then I am in debt, though creditor by right.

27. I'll carry debts in rights, even if blamed,
For right persists, its law remains.

28. I'm pleased by the madness of a foolish time,
Maybe it will enlighten maddened minds.

29. It pleased me then provoked me, yet it's ruled
By ceaseless whims, never reigned in.

30. It leaped at days in steps that bruised me,
Drew a sword whose edge I'd long sheathed.

31. Long was my pact with it, unchanged,
Burnished or worn by time.

32. Yet to draw it is hard, though in my heart a blaze
Nearly burst free from my secret depths.

33. I struck at time until its sharpness yielded,
After defiant excess, bent to me.

34. With a sword that rejects betrayal to the slain
When one trusted is betrayed.

35. It's not forged of iron essence,
But from glory, its blade and sheath.

36. If time were lent the loyalty in Musa's son,
Its epochs would not expire.

37. If the sword were lent the clarity in Musa's son,
No rust would tarnish its sheen.

38. Majid, whose sweat soaked the earth of glory,
And fulfilled the boughs' branches.

39. A lad in whom all wisdom stirs,
And stillness suits his composure.

40. He never neglected to probe mysteries,
Keeping sharp eyes on the loyal.

41. O scion of the Bareem clan, I have hope
In none but you Majid to fulfill it.

42. I thank and praise you Abu Hasan of beauty,
When backs are burdened by debts.

43. I thank and praise you Abu Hasan most fine,
When hearts are aligned with sorrows.

44. There is a sanctity between us, and time has bit me,
Though its command could not rend.

45. The sword bears witness you're the true sword,
No deceiver who would betray the undeceiving.

46. So accomplish my need, for in needs
You're the fortunate bird, its omen blessed.

47. Your share, I think, embraces glory,
So walk with your brother, we'll embrace our ruin.

48. Musa is the confidant of those who confide,
Strengthened through his support of Aaron.

49. So aid me, for perhaps with treasure laid bare
Lies one roused by another concealed.

50. Do not neglect a gathering where
My good thoughts of you prove true, for words have their crafts.

51. And dress my ode in the finest ode,
Like the sweetest melodies' trills.

52. For how many faults have you cloaked, that I see
In none cloaked or composed wrong.

53. And if you display the garb of a friend,
Like brocade - none other matches its weave.

54. Time has one possessed, so treat him,
And perhaps he will show me one possessed.

55. Be diligent in my need before one easy,
Whose heights are facile and fecund.

56. A hopeful wish is a promise to its hopeful,
A promise, and its fulfillment secure.

57. Generosity released his wealth to reap praise,
As the hopeful's hands are freed from prison.

58. Between his robes, a sun of wisdom and rain
Of bounty spills upon us, abundant.

59. So guidance is where the sun rises from it,
And dew where its abundance spills.