1. I was afflicted by my own soul, the evilest of souls I saw,
Stubbornly disobedient when I forbid it.

2. How much ugly did I confess to,
And how many major sins did I commit.

3. And how many caring advisors were generous to me,
But I wasted and refused their advice.

4. Worldly desires called me to the life of this world,
So I let go of my religion from my hands and went to it.

5. And I have tricks with greed sometimes,
I flatter the life of this world with them and attain it.

6. I say to myself when it complained of the narrowness of its home,
As if I were in the grave - its home has narrowed.

7. And I have in good traits an obstinate opponent
That discourages me from them when I intend them.

8. And I have a lifespan that will inevitably end one day
As if its time has come and I will finish it.

9. So if I was insightful in the life of this world and lamented
For my soul to its inhabitants, I would eulogize it.

10. And if I was one of those who hold themselves accountable,
I would have defied my soul in desires and disobeyed it.

11. O you whom your soul threw into confusion,
And whom it deceived of its "if only" and "would that".

12. Enough of this ignorance and deceit from you,
Because you are the living soul on earth - its deceased.