1. The time we live in is one of force
As the blossoms were buried under the earth

2. We fear it, and whoever fears calamities
More difficult than its calamities is caution

3. Some of us play like sheep grazing
While next to them the wolves lurk

4. The passage of time seduces people
Yet its passage is nothing but scheming

5. One thinks he has escaped from it
But in fact, escaping it was impossible

6. If it widens the cage of a bird
How can it escape when the cage is still shut?

7. I see the world only gives worries
So the joy of life is safety and poverty

8. How can the religious be happy to see
His debts growing with this wealth?

9. By your life, money is nothing but sorrow
For life is but a borrowed garment

10. No rich man died without worries
What regrets this loss brings!

11. It is as if money is pens, and with it
Pages of life are deleted and abridged

12. A treasury of money is like a grave
In the soul of the rich is its wreckage

13. How strange are the turns of fate!
After things happen, they are reversed

14. I saw poverty as the lot of the poor
While for the rich was their regard

15. If worries afflict the poor one day
It is lighter than the sparks of fire

16. Time humiliates him, yet he cares not
What the evening or morning brings

17. Oh hut of the poor, you have become a world
While the whole earth is the home of the poor

18. Over those palaces I see smoke
Lighter upon you than this dust

19. In you is safety from all worries
While in them is the fire of the worries of fate

20. The sun is upon you like a crown none attained
Except you, and the bracelets of shade are your adornment

21. Even if time has a ruler
Those in it have contempt for this age

22. It is as if time is nothing but snake skin
And every ruler among people is a rat

23. The big names bring them no benefit
They themselves, however big, are small

24. Oh hut of the poor, greetings to you
You are the dignity and honor of the world

25. Those palaces are nothing but sins
While you are its excuse to the days