1. What can stop the fate of a young man,
And death lies in wait for the young man.

2. While the young man was happy and content,
Until time afflicted him with distress.

3. How many lessons and thoughts
Does the young man have during the nights and their turns.

4. Asking about something he doesn't recognize,
Every maturity comes to you in news.

5. A man who feels safe from time,
And has witnessed its calamities, is deluded.

6. Say what is right if you can,
And beware if you speak harmful words.

7. Good words are not pleasant to their listener
Unless he is a attentive as good fruit.

8. The glimmer in your temples
Warns you against what evil I see.

9. Why have you, since you were a playful child
Dragging the tail of foolishness and frivolity,

10. Played the games of an ignorant child
When time has clothed you in the garb of old age.

11. If you had feared and worried about death,
Your eyelids would have flowed with tears.

12. You would have lengthened your hopes, while you are
Of few days and brief.

13. By God, your eyes belie you
In what they have seen others do.

14. How strange that I have stayed in a homeland
Whose people are all travelers.

15. I remembered the people of the graves, my intimate ones,
So my tears poured down like rain.

16. Say to the people of the graves, my dear ones,
I will not forget you as long as I live.

17. O dwellers in the belly of the graves! Do not
Reproach those who enter the graves rashly.

18. What did those who left their kingdom do -
The people of tombs, bones and stones?

19. Do they build palaces among you
Or do they have any glory and prestige?

20. What did their faces do when
The beauty of their features faded away?

21. God is my confidence in every event,
God is my pride and my boast.

22. With God I fear no one,
He suffices me as protector from mankind.