1. You claim reason though it is the noblest in you
Why has it then become confined under your passions?

2. And so is your imprisonment of life, though it has
Become where you desire nothing but the length of your imprisonment

3. And you hope for survival in your coming days
Yet are not admonished by your passing yesterdays

4. Set free the soul for it is the most cunning of your enemies
Is it not the advisor of your passions?

5. And make the days of your life a mourning ceremony that we may see
On the day of death, the night of your wedding

6. And if you desire to contend, then be silent
And if you want to reproach, then refrain

7. And if kindness strays above your land because of you
Remember its humiliation beneath your footsteps

8. Do not be fooled, for you will never truly attain
The satisfaction of the Most Merciful except by angering your soul

9. None has disgraced the world nor owned it
Except he who resists his passions