1. If I were among the brave in my religion,
I would not be known for my colors or idle.

2. And I would have worn for the nation a loose garment,
Flowing, made of righteous deeds.

3. But I disabled the bows of piety,
So it shot without arrows.

4. And the enemy shot his arrow, hitting me
When I did not fortify a shield for the fight.

5. So I am like one who faces the battalion unarmed
In dire straits, exposed to fighting.

6. Were it not for hoping for pardon, I would be like the fading stars
Whose shining light is extinguished.

7. My youth faded, so it is time for me to shepherd
If I had been admonished by the white hair of fading.

8. And if I had insight when it befell me,
I would have known that its occurrence is my departure.

9. So I looked at provisions for the house of my stay,
And asked my Lord to restore my sanity.

10. How often I intended to repent but was prevented
When I was not worthy of it and it was clear to me.

11. And that is hard on me unless I
Am turning in the grasp of the Most High.

12. And I reached a world that will soon sever my pursuits
By the setting of its stars and the waning of its crescent.

13. It distracted its tempted people with its temptations,
And it is impossible to be preoccupied with the impossible.

14. Nothing loses a deal more than a scholar
Whose religion was played with by the ignorant.

15. So he started distributing his religion by the hands of youths
And removing it greedily to gather money.

16. There is no good in illicit earnings and seldom
Is salvation hoped for by the earner of the lawful.

17. When I heard of a family being scorched tomorrow
With fire, my forehead sweated with anxiety.

18. And if you want the truth of those who will be scorched by it
Then read the consequences of Surat Al-Anfal.

19. The scale weighs down only by one
Whose shoulders have lightened from burdens.

20. So take only enough and do not have surplus
For surplus, you will be asked all sorts of questions.

21. And leave luxury and fine garments to their people
And be content with coarse wool and the wearing of slippers.

22. For they and you, our poverty and their wealth,
Do not settle or last in any condition.

23. And roam the countries that you may see the ruins of those
Who used to rule them, the heaviest of rulers.

24. The wind of demise blew them away and scattered them
Like the scattering of light particles of sand.

25. And the pulpits shook them after they were firmly established
And they were atop them like mountains.

26. And restrain your imagination for an hour thinking of their length
And beware upon you from the calamities.

27. How many integrated and fine men were in them
And how much glory and beauty were in them.

28. And how many of them have become ruins and deserted places
For war, brought by the father of cubs.

29. Their ties were severed and torn apart
And they met what they had been like strung pearls.

30. And when you come upon their graves, then ask them
About what horrors they met inside them.

31. They will inform you, if you understand their state,
With an expression like revelation, not speech.

32. “We are pawned here till the Day of Reward
For the crimes of words and deeds.

33. Whoever does not watch over his Lord and fear Him
His hands are twisted and he has no protector.”