1. Greed is malice and so is covetousness
Greed and piety were never known to coexist

2. If people were satisfied with sufficiency
They would find space in that which suffices them

3. To each person, there is latitude in what sustains him
But he does not wish for what can accommodate him

4. O milker of fate, spare its choicest riches
Have you gained anything from your accounting?

5. How strange is one deceived by the hours
About himself, thus deluded!

6. How strange is time, trusted
By one who sees even rocks can give pain

7. I am surprised by one who feels secure in a station
Wherein worries and pain abound

8. I am surprised by a group who recognized the truth
Yet shunned it and did not revert

9. People sow descendants but the hand
Of death harvests all they sowed

10. Nothing equals contentment and patience
In bearing every incident that befalls

11. The contented among us have always been the noblest
How excellent are the contented with their contentment

12. To each person, every instant brings an event
That takes from him what cannot be regained

13. He whose patience falls short of his affliction
Is distraught and not consoled by distress

14. The sun bids you farewell at sunset if
Only you knew; and bids hello at sunrise

15. How long will you be a frolicker, a wanton
How long will you indulge in youth?

16. Kings mightier than you passed away
All perished along with what they amassed

17. I wonder about those who passed
Before me into dust – what did they accomplish?

18. Woe to them! What destination did they attain?
Woe to them! In what desolate place did they fall?

19. Praise be to God – everyone who inhabited
The world has been severed from it by death