1. Good and evil are habits and desires
And friends may turn out to be foes

2. Patience shows truth when angry
And the forbearing overlooks faults

3. Each has their own pursuit and pursuits differ
Each soul has its own will in its quest

4. For every disease there is a cure with its doctor
Who doesn't know the cure won't know the illness

5. Thanks to God who fulfills what He wills and none
Can will against Him, creatures have no will

6. Creation was made only to perish together
We perish and names and tales perish

7. Oh how distant are the dead from the living
Their time has come while people live on

8. A friend deserts his brother at his death
All the deceased are deserted by friends

9. Don't cry for yourself in life over what
You fear, while crying over the dead

10. I seek forgiveness from God for my sins and excess
Though hidden I am a sinner

11. No urge makes me disobey though between me
And the light is darkness

12. How many hermits in the shadows of life
Are followed by an insistent demon

13. Events have their allotted hours
Bringing closeness or distance in turn

14. All move between hardship and ease
And time makes them now yield, now resist

15. Thanks to God, all are hypocrites
Honesty no longer wets the tongue