1. I have been patient, and patience has become my nature,
For God has praised patience.

2. You were my brother as long as your stick was dry,
But when it became straight and green, you sided with ease.

3. By your life, if you had let me taste the fruit of wealth,
I would have let you taste what pleases you of the fruit of gratitude.

4. If I gain today or tomorrow what enriches me,
I will let you gain what remains until the end of Resurrection Day.

5. Have you not seen that poverty is hoped to gain wealth,
While it is feared that wealth may suffer from poverty?

6. Have you not seen that the sea depletes its water,
And the vicissitudes of fate befall its whales?

7. On Resurrection Day, you will have no provision
Except what you forwarded before death to Resurrection Day.

8. If you do not sow and yet see a harvester,
You will regret neglecting the sowing season.