1. I warn you, O son of Adam, so listen
And abandon luxury to benefit

2. If you lived a thousand full years
The days would not go until they cease

3. Death always persists
Until it disperses all that is united

4. So prepare provisions for meeting the One
Whose messenger, if he came to you, you could not refuse

5. The creation was busy with life and forgot
A time whose events batter them

6. The world has deceived us, so how can it delude us
Or how can it trick whoever it wants, so they are tricked

7. Yet man makes it his home, knowing
He will depart it for a home other than it

8. The world did not accept anyone with its beauty
So he was done with life and did not have his fill

9. O you who waste your religion
Preserving your religion is the best thing you can do

10. And God is more merciful to the youth than himself
So work, you are not tasked beyond your ability

11. The truth is the best path you can take
And God is more generous than whoever you solicit and beseech

12. So pave good deeds for yourself you will be rewarded for
And see for yourself which matter you should follow

13. And make your companion one who was loyal to his companion
And make your friend when you descend one who will guard you

14. And prevent your heart from inclining you with passion
And grip tight the rope of your religion and cling to it

15. And know that all you put forth
Is plentifully stored for you by God, He did not lose any

16. Good fortune to those content with their lot
Who do not want what is in another's hand, so appear begging

17. If you are ambitious, you will definitely beg, so do not be
Ambitions, for the free man is a slave when he covets

18. We will surely meet a man whom his soul corrupts
So everything spacious shrinks from him

19. A man prevents what he has and seeks
What his friend has and is angry if prevented

20. It did not harm those who make the dust their bed
If they do not sleep on silk when content