1. The turns of fate have bitten me,
And I've seen my hopes as liars.

2. Man loves the pleasures of life,
Then calamities torment him.

3. When it exceeds its limits,
It spurns him as he savors a drink.

4. I have tested it at length,
If only I hoped for trials.

5. The hair of my head has turned white,
Loaded with abundant calamities.

6. It invites the youth to hope,
While death is nearer to him.

7. Due to prolonged despair,
I'm tired, though I don't complain.

8. My only complain is about envy,
And that's one of the finest traits.

9. If you possess glory,
You won't gain your kin's affection.

10. Glory and enviers go together;
If they leave, they will be gone.

11. When you lose the envious,
You lose life's delights.

12. So if the virtuous obey you,
Endure those tribulations.

13. How often a migrant woman,
Her camel's pace strains her.

14. I tasked her, and she came hurrying,
The necklaces jangling on her chest.

15. The sun eats up her shadow
As flames devour dry kindling.

16. Today it flows with the caravan,
While dawn is leaving.

17. The clouds almost blew her away
If not for the crisis and baggage.

18. As if the camel litters
Were shackles on her heads.

19. As if her ribs
Were bows of a spring or acacia's arms.

20. As if her eyelids
Cast down on a wakeful heart.

21. Until I saw the night in the horizons
Darkening with calamities.

22. As if when the first light shone
In the east, a drinker's streak remained.

23. Half the sun is removed,
While the west is carried on its sides.