أَمتِع شَبابِكَ مِن لَهوٍ وَمِن طَرَبٍ

أَمتِع شَبابِكَ مِن لَهوٍ وَمِن طَرَبٍ

وَلا تُصخ لِمَلامٍ سَمعَ مُكتَرِثِ

وَلا تُصخ لِمَلامٍ سَمعَ مُكتَرِثِ

Treat your youth to amusement and delight.

Enjoy your youth with joy and delight

And lend no heedful ear to reproach.

And turn not away to blame of the morose;

فَخَيرُ عَيشِ الفَتى رَيعانُ جِدَّتِهِ

فَخَيرُ عَيشِ الفَتى رَيعانُ جِدَّتِهِ

وَالعُمرُ مِن فِضَّةٍ وَالشَيبُ مِن خَبَثِ

وَالعُمرُ مِن فِضَّةٍ وَالشَيبُ مِن خَبَثِ

For the best of a young man's life is the bloom of his youth.

The best of luck of a youth is his valor time

And life is silver, and gray hair is dross.

Life is but silvern and age is but dross