1. Wretched is he whom the life of this world has deceived with its hopes!
How many the like of him has the life of this world toyed with!

2. The heedless man forgets the inevitability of his death
in the length of his coming and going in it.

3. The turns of fate do not cease to confuse him,
until it seizes him on the edge of his shovel.

4. Neither nights nor days leave
anything lasting in this life as it was.

5. How miserable for the deluded ignorant man who refused
to reflect on death in the life of this world!

6. What saves a man is what good he forwarded in this life
of his benevolence and favors in it.

7. O you who dies tomorrow, what preparations have you made
for the approach of death with its horrors?

8. The righteous and pious man dies and is envied,
and none can compete with him in some of his deeds.

9. Seek independence with God from those you used to ask.
For God is the best one asked to fulfill requests.