1. Journey in the path of God to the utmost end
For man has none but what he strives to gain

2. Stand at the door of God, be one
Who follows the Chosen's footsteps in truth

3. Rectify your intention in religion, for
The servant has nothing with his Lord but his intent

4. Let fall tears copiously down your cheek in gloom
For much good flows when tears do flow

5. And beware of heedlessness, lest you fade through it
No lover is discerning like one gone astray

6. And hold to the Law, cling to its judgment
For the gloom of grave is due those who rebel

7. If called to the speech of the Chosen One
Obey, and beware lest you be like those gone astray

8. His command is from his Lord, and he
Speaks not from fancy, such is his right

9. Shun desire, incline not to it
How many lie vanquished by it on their sides

10. Leave the preserve of disobedience, soon the youth
Stumbles if he persists around the preserve

11. Line your eye with the kohl of piety
For the burden is only to the eye from what it sees

12. Take the unseen's meanings through a Law
Whose method for our Lord is the balanced way

13. See not your soul, for the sickness is that
Man disputes or the soul he fancies to see

14. Part from the company whose path
Seduces, holding its reins astray

15. Accompany the pious and profit by their time
For the delight of life is in the pious folk

16. Verify completely the words of the Chosen
Not all who transmit a saying have transmitted it true

17. Walk with the folk by their manners
At dawn the people praise the blessed calm

18. Surrender the matter to your Master and be
Clinging through His rope, ask not astray

19. Frequent the house with gentle, tamed manners
What harms the youth if he walks abroad

20. Guard your eyes, look not through them
But at what is permitted, as Law came with

21. Your feet preserve, send them not
To other than what pleases the nobles of prohibition

22. Shun pride and heed it not
For pride cuts the ties to the sublime

23. Be dignified, well-mannered Lord of tamed manners
In his company the Lord of awe is not trivial

24. Take the religion's order as a cutting rule
Judge not by opinion when religion rules

25. Oppose the crooked one in his doctrine
Though lowly in state, he climbed on high

26. Seek help against hardship through God
My Lord disappoints not him who prays

27. Take from fear a sturdy coat of mail
And remember through it Moses and Mount Sinai folded

28. For the command is to God, to whom all returns
In His hands, glory to Him, lies every wish

29. Profit by your times and work within them
Busy with thoughts of the meeting for God

30. Deal with the fleeting world by its nature
The world is short in duration, know this well

31. If it tricks you, go with it mindfully
Of what it did by deceit to those now gone

32. Take from the night a blessed time
Dawn, neglect it not, nor daylight

33. Watch your breaths as they pass
No lover he who heeds them not

34. Comfort the poor, mend his heart
Do what you can, leave what's beyond your reach

35. Befriend him who befriended you, preserve his love
Be not engaged with one grown cold

36. Honor at heart the loyal friend
Spurn with disregard a heart grown aloof

37. If you rise up, be gentle in manner
How ugly the rude and coarse though of high station

38. Be tender-hearted to people and be
Unlike the Lord of cruelty grown hard

39. Be generous of lawful gain that comes
Through your favor, by He who raised the lofty

40. The generous of illegal gain is wretched
Equal to the excessive miser in meanness

41. Cut off lies in your talk
Cursed is he who fabricated as Aad did

42. Abandon the usurer, take him aside
The hungry poor eats of riba

43. He who slanders honors, go not near him
Long has that been his way, the way of vileness

44. Return to the gossip what he brings
To his face, for he is the prisoner of fancy

45. If you see the disobedient, seize his forelock
Part from him, in face and heart, he who disobeyed

46. Revere the stature of companions with honor, they are
Leaders and all are to be emulated

47. The House of the Chosen One, so love them
Out of love for his essence and the Chosen

48. Love the men of God for God, stand
At their door, and God is best to guide

49. For His sake adopt them especially
A servant may be chosen whom God chooses

50. See not effect in them, that is
Idolatry, the Doer of deeds determines what transpired

51. He deposited in them traces of mysteries
As night deposited in it the darkness of gloom

52. For His sake preserve their rights
Reasonable minds approve whom He approved

53. By my life, if you knew who they are
Followers of the pure Taha, those who followed suit

54. Who claims to be one of them yet is not
Bound by the Law, goes astray, gone far off track

55. A clear proof, so take it
Leave the way of a lying pretender

56. Show kindness to your neighbor, be strong for him
Use pardon when your neighbor aggresses

57. Be good to relatives though they sever
From their severance our prophet, the pure, forbade

58. For your parents preserve abundant rights
In life or beneath the soil they lie

59. Keep the affection of those you loved, and be
Obedient therein to the command of the Chosen

60. Regard the covenant's people, neglect no
Matter for it, for the covenant's rule seeks obedience

61. Protect people's rights, trifle not with them
Thus the line on the Tablet flowed

62. The cover lifts with death, and one may be
Asked of his deeds, whoever crossed the line

63. Restrain rage and calm your heart, nor
Let arrows fly when the wolf howled

64. Take from the heart an advancing weapon
Against the enemy, if with no right he attacked

65. Drawing near to piety you will pardon, so be
Forgiving when able, among those who pardoned

66. If a complete hardship presses heavily
Say, "God suffices me," He is enough

67. If an immerse evil looms with intensity
Say, "God suffices me," and it suffices