1. Alas my long sorrow tomorrow and my regret,
And my disgrace on the Day of Resurrection if You do not conceal me.

2. Alas my confusion if my peers succeed tomorrow,
And I stand alone, standing confused and perplexed.

3. Alas my adversity if my family abandon me perplexed there,
And hand me over to my comrades.

4. Alas the anxiety of my soul when the clothes of my coverings
Are removed tomorrow, exposing my evil deeds.

5. I wish that when my record is spread,
I would be spread (forgiven) and it would not be spread (exposed).

6. O soul, how long will this inclination toward passion continue?
You have long acquired sins, so refrain.

7. O eye, woe to you! My peers have settled
In the graves, so be admonished by them and learn a lesson.

8. These were their abodes, empty after them,
So ask the ruins about them and inquire.

9. And let the tears flow in sorrow and yearning,
And purify yourself by its waters and cleanse yourself.

10. The righteous men succeeded with their precedence,
And I joined them afterwards with the succession of a laggard.

11. Why did I neglect the place of return and its affair,
And feel secure from the horror of the Day of Gathering?

12. Why did I devote myself to sins and acquiring them,
And feel safe from their consequences, feeling fully secure?

13. I wasted the branch of frivolity in the meadow of passion
With the hand of idleness; would that I had not wasted!

14. I flowed freely in the plains of youth,
And walked in them with the gait of an arrogant.

15. O you who addresses the life of this world, beware, for it
is a land whose exterior and interior are desolate.

16. Its decorations robbed you, and sometimes
It removed a mask, exposing something horribly ugly.

17. You wasted your life constructing it, and had you known
The reality of its affair, you would not have constructed.

18. The liar of wishes deceived you, so you obeyed it.
Had you had any sense, you would not have been deceived.