1. Adorn yourself with the virtues of your ancestors,
And ignite the flint of your ancestors with your ancestors' glory.

2. And know that if you are steadfast,
Your steadfastness will benefit you with pure generosity.

3. Glory and highness cannot be attained
Except through your toil.

4. So turn away from frivolity
And turn away from the attributes of your negligence.

5. And take off your robe that
Has stripped your sword of its sheath.

6. And suppress your desires, and do not let
Your own soul mislead you after your maturity.

7. What benefit can your passion bring you
Other than your burning in hellfire?

8. And intense longings that scratch
Their claws on your skin.

9. And if disease has stricken you and
The eyes have ulcerated your eyelids.

10. Alas! After that, you will not find
Any benefit from the gazelles of Nejd.

11. So look at the state of people of the times,
For they are brethren of your era.

12. And compare the sincere friend to the unfaithful one;
There, the opposite occurred from your analogy.

13. So include the noble traits among your morals
So that the fragrance of your roses may spread.

14. Are not the morals of the shaykhs nobler
Than the morals of your rebels?

15. The manners of associating with the noble
You will find organized with your necklace.

16. And blow gently with your breath from your grace,
Out of generosity, and welcome your visitors.

17. Do not forbid even if the sincere criticizes you
And severs the ropes of your friendship.

18. You do not always meet
One who is true to keeping your covenant.

19. The state of people of the times is similar
And their state in your critical research.

20. They rise and fall in your presence;
Their caprice and your tide are similar.

21. So preserve for yourself its worth,
And beware transgressing the border of your limit.

22. And show compassion for the poor
When you ascend the throne of your glory.

23. Let not the fame of your heroism in the people
And the voice of your soldiers make you arrogant.

24. It will not increase your awe
Among the people, the snarling of your frown.

25. No! And do not know your perfect traits
Through the softness of your firmness.

26. With forbearance you will attain the pinnacle of
Noble honor, despite those against you.

27. And with opponents you will meet
Resistance in the path of your aim.

28. So choose between the two what
You approve for your blame or your praise.

29. And know that time is very easy
In what it tries behind your promise.

30. Time is not, even if it has made
You subservient every moment, your servant.

31. It does not please you, from your time,
Except what you lived in purity of your roses.

32. For death can reach you at times
And it can hasten your chill.

33. And just as it raises you to comfort,
It mixes its bitterness with your sweetness.

34. It reveals and conceals the fate of
Felicity from the moons of your fortune.

35. So turn away from the base, lowly world,
For it is not the abode of your eternity.

36. And abstain from what your hands possess,
For it is more deserving of your abstinence.

37. And strive, forbid yourself by exerting your
Knowledge, and mix piety with your striving.

38. Do not patch your garment, it is contemptible,
And a borrowed finery does not adorn you.

39. For precedence is through merits,
Not by your lightning or your thunder.