1. The voice of your singing enchanted the meadows
Was it the lightning flashing or timber groaning?

2. So your tears flowed copiously at dawn
Spreading like the slithering of a huge serpent

3. Or did time make its judgement absolute
Turning tyrannical, showing you no mercy?

4. So, wisely, you exercised patience
With the resignation of a pious, calm sage

5. For time brings ease and takes hardship away
So do not separate the two, have no regrets

6. Between ease and hardship just a subtle sign
From the blink of an eye in a moment fleeting

7. Thus Allah judged in His creation
And the door of Divine care remains open

8. So trust in the Bountiful One whose ways
Are to answer prayers, never to disappoint

9. Who consoles you with care, feels your affliction
One knowledgeable of his people and their ways

10. Who by the sea of error was not drowned
Shun the company of the base and lowly

11. That you may yet rise to glory and renown
Accompany none but the man of knowledge

12. And none but the reasonable as companions
And those detached, and men of noble deeds

13. Whose hearts are unsullied by bonds enchaining
And if some rude foolish men should one day

14. Insult you in their boorish vulgar accosting
Restrain your tongue from answering their abuse

15. For the restrained is not like the unrestrained
And do not speak without considered thought

16. For trials result from unrestrained talking
And if you pardon, pardoning is a part of piety

17. And you know the rank of the God-fearing
Do not harm your gentle soul, its essence

18. With the fire of anger that's apt to destroy
For in people the state of a man is known

19. Though fortune does not bless all equally
Do not give your affection to a fool

20. For the rift of folly cannot be repaired
Indeed, the sorest trial for the wise

21. Is to keep company with the foolish lout