1. Alas! Who can protect whom you decide to take
Where are they from your irresistible decrees?

2. You set upon him the excuse of Giselin
Neither drawn out nor passed through

3. And happiness you kept denying him
So it healed, and it was the constant wound gushing

4. She showed you what loyalty brings in return
And showed him how the traitor prospers

5. A bitter tree on fertile ground growing
Thus the righteousness in it was nullified

6. While you enjoyed, he persisted in his rebellion
And Allah destroys what the unbelievers build

7. Until He allowed for his people what he brought upon
Thamud from the hamstringing of the she-camel

8. Taken captive, he became in the grip of captors
Whose claws continually tear his flesh

9. Sublime like the sun's horn, his light kindling
While sights lower before his abode

10. Bestowing generosity from countries and what they contain
For the ocean contains oceans within

11. Wakeful, fearing Allah in his solitude
Neither extravagant nor arrogant nor overbearing

12. He set up the watcher for consequences, observing
Through it the innocent are cleared

13. Not like those who rushed their pleasures
Then were bankrupted, and it was a loss

14. They were diminished, and the scrolls of their sins swelled
With the worst that memories mention

15. While the person is wrapped up, spreading his fold
Of what the virtuous conscience unfolds

16. Say to the indolent sleeping in their comfort
Not every gift of the past is a storm

17. Do not feel secure from Allah's grasp, for He who rages
To Allah belong the secrets of His throne

18. Pure, though the minerals are made turbid
Equitable, though the kings' judges are unjust

19. Exalted is his father to him, and built in its plains
From what he constructed, minarets

20. Praiseworthy is the praiseworthy in deeds when
Strung on the neck of night as pearls

21. To him days bowed down small
As the cities bowed to him in his shade

22. Aspirations that ennoble you every day a rank
Going beyond what is beneath the moon

23. And ambitions for glory when they took aim
For them in the eternal dome is rest