1. The youth's fate comes faster than one hopes
And I see he constantly gathers, never satisfied

2. Tell me, for whose wedding do you gather what I see
Is it for your own wedding? You have no father gathering for you

3. Do not look to passion, but look to
The world's wickedness with its people, what it does

4. Death is inevitable, it cannot be averted
And for every death there is a cause that cannot be repelled

5. Death is an illness that cannot be cured by medicine
Whether it comes or not, each side has an appointed time

6. How many brothers have I been prevented from meeting
Whose hearts tug mine from the ribcage

7. I bade him farewell, then turned away
Leaving his grave, stifling my agony

8. So farewell to youth and its people
After this, nothing in my singing brings joy

9. And when you are old, is there pleasure left for you?
No pleasure remains for the old to enjoy

10. And when content, you are richer than one who walks
The poor is he who is never content

11. And when you seek, seek not the narrow-minded
For one who spurns you, your Lord's provision is vast

12. Ambitions, I never knew, bring degradation
To the ambitious, and where is one who does not covet?

13. Submit, and do not deny your Lord's power
For God debases whom He will, and elevates

14. And perhaps one benefits from the harm of those
Who intend harm, and one is harmed by those who help

15. Each person is stamped with his own nature
No person except according to his imprint

16. Nothing is faster than the fickleness of one who
Has an ear that hears what cannot be heard