1. كلُّ شيءٍ تدبيرهُ مُسْتحيلٌ

    فمُجيلُ الآراءِ فيهِ مَلومُ

    Whatever is impossible to manage,

    Whoever deliberates over it is to blame.

  2. فاسْتَنِمْ واسْتهنْ بما يُعْجزُ الرَّأيَ

    فلا حظَّ فيهِ إِلاَّ الهُمومُ

    So rest easy and make light of what baffles thought;

    For there is nothing to gain from it but worries.

  3. هَوَّنَ الموتَ وهو أصْعبُ شيءٍ

    أنَّهُ مُبْرَمُ القَضا مَحْتومُ

    Death was made easier, though it is the hardest thing,

    By the fact that it is irrevocably decreed and inevitable.