1. أجِدَّك ما تَنَبَّه للمنايا

    كأنك واجد عنها مَلاذا

    Do you truly give no thought to death,

    as though you could find refuge from it?

  2. لذاك على الغنى تزداد حرصاً

    وفي حلبات سكرتها نَفاذا

    That is why you grow ever keener for wealth

    and race onward through the courses of its intoxication.

  3. هبِ الدنيا تُحقق ما ترجّي

    من الآمال ويحك ثم ماذا

    Suppose the world grants what you hope for

    of all your desires—woe to you, what then?