1. You wasted your life trying to improve your state,
Yet never thought, alas, about your final fate.

2. I see you felt secure from the nights' events,
Though they conspired against you for your punishment.

3. You were infatuated with the world's vanities,
Yet it approaches now to fight against you.

4. How often a heart hoped with dreams,
Bearing more than it could withstand.

5. What you wished for was not
Faster than your demise and departure.

6. So live frugally and work
For a day when you will be distraught over your family.

7. You will come to it humiliated and subdued,
Not knowing whether from your right or your left.

8. In your youth, you were ignorantly infatuated with it,
So why not become disinterested with aging?

9. Wait, for it is insignificant to God
And lighter than dust on your shoes.

10. If it comes to you asking for marriage, turn away
And say, wait, for I am not one of your men.

11. You adorned yourself to deceive me,
Yet I saw nothing uglier than your beauty.

12. If only you were a shade in the hot sun,
Then I would have never stopped seeking your shade.

13. Keep your estrangement as long as you wish, for I am content
With a lifetime of separation from your company.

14. Nobility is not in loosely shooting arrows
That one day aim haphazardly with your bow.

15. Your unlawful acts bring punishment upon the people
And you will be held accountable for your lawful acts.

16. The fading of those before you indicates
That you too will inevitably fade.

17. How many kingdoms and buildings they erected,
Yet where are their buildings and kingdoms now?

18. When you are reasonable about your departure,
Prepare provisions for your journey.

19. Leave the ways of misguidance sought by its people,
For the ways of truth are clear paths.

20. Why this obstinacy and straying in your confusion?
How long will this self-deception persist?

21. Wake up! Your life is over,
So count and evaluate yourself during calamities.

22. And reproach yourself for your negligence, and see
What path have you started walking?

23. Tell me, what will you say on the Day of Calling
When the Supreme questions you about your deeds?

24. What excuse will you give
When they unfold your record of misdeeds?

25. So fear your Master in solitude and beseech
Him with your lamentation and supplication.

26. Be mindful of His command always,
And He will relieve your difficult state on Judgment Day.

27. Do not incline towards disobedience, which will lead
Your state into a night of sorrows.

28. And if you are afflicted with something, then be patient,
Perhaps God will bring about relief after that.

29. For many a calamity has passed you,
As if it never touched you at all.

30. How much adversity has refined you
And the nights have perfected your mettle!