1. You are lent a world that will reclaim its loan,
A green life that will fade into withering,

2. Does the wise man wish for a life,
When death haunts his ending?

3. How can the eye delight in an hour's slumber,
When it ponders the trials it has endured,

4. How can the self find peace in an abode of transience,
Knowing it will find no rest within it,

5. My thoughts on earth are of fleeting ideas,
Unaware after death where its thoughts will be,

6. Does it not have the pursuit of success to occupy it,
Rather than dreading the coming torment?

7. Souls led astray by an hour of vanity,
To the heat of a fire that will not douse its flames,

8. It has an insistent guide leading it,
To other than what you intend for its path,

9. You want one thing yet seek another,
And aim for a direction, though heading elsewhere,

10. Rushing heedlessly into its own ruin,
Certain that torment will soon befall it.

11. Neglecting ordained duties, singing empty praises,
Its rebellion and arrogance have been exposed,

12. To the trials it faces, resignation calms it,
From success, aversion makes it recoil,

13. Turning from the Lord who guided it aright,
Pursuing a world that flees far from it,

14. Awaken, O deluded one, and repent,
For God has a realm where its fire is undying,

15. Do not prefer the fleeting over the eternal,
Evidence of minds gone astray in its choosing,

16. Do you not know the truth in what you've abandoned,
And tread paths whose flaws cannot be hidden?

17. Forsaking the clear, white paths,
Lost in unclear darkness, man's dignity impaired,

18. Rejoicing in fleeting vanity,
Trailed by regret that will not cease,

19. Nights and pleasures all pass away,
But the shame of sins remains,

20. O deceived one, are you not awake?
The secret of calamities has been exposed,

21. So hurry to your Lord's good graces, and shun
His prohibitions, for their light has shone clear,

22. The days will pass you by heedlessly,
Tempted by a world that has evilly betrayed you,

23. So many nations before us were deluded by fate,
See their lands now lie barren and empty,

24. Recall the past and draw lessons from it,
For lessons make minds grow keener,

25. Seek its remnants, every desiring pursuer,
Once a refuge against enemies, now victorious,

26. Its parts once gathered to clothe the earth,
Now returned to their rightful owner,

27. How many sleep heedless of death drawing near,
Intent in its aim though they slumber unaware,

28. Calling down darkness that has descended unfought,
Stretching hands, though the Lord's throne is too high,

29. When you strive for your world, believing
It hands you its reins, compliant and tamed,

30. Yet fatigue keeps you from serving the Merciful,
Feigning reluctance, though no excuse can justify,

31. You shun brethren who will fade and vanish,
Forget she to whom you owe greatest caution,

32. I see in you frustration begin to show,
When fate forces your hand against your will,

33. There one says, would that I had means
To reclaim when I was master with free choice,

34. Awake to a day of woe and terror,
When souls face their death throes,

35. All friends abandon you on that day,
Hopes collapse and crumble away,

36. Consigned to dark prison's confines,
Its gloom and dust clear for eyes to survey,

37. Crying out, none responds when alone,
Joy of life torn off like a mask,

38. Crying helplessly for a day of horror,
AnHour when hidden becomes plain as day,

39. Beasts herded together, pages gathered,
Scattered open for all to survey,

40. Gardens adorned, brought near,
Hellfire stoked, its flames leap high,

41. The brilliant sun folded up at dawn,
The scattering stars hastened away,

42. The moment decreed has come to pass,
All things once joined now split apart,

43. Mountains and earth changed and altered,
Its fruits withheld from their masters,

44. To Paradise, eternal its bliss,
Or Hell, unending its torment,

45. Before the Almighty Lord of requital,
Sins recounted, major and minor,

46. On Resurrection Day regretting the minor,
Destroyed there for major ones,

47. Bodies envied, souls revived,
Private and public equal in sway,

48. When God cloaks them in pardon and grace,
Granting an eternal, rightful abode,

49. Evildoers will join them when all equals
Garb of faith and visage of sin,

50. Seeking worldly riches, assuming exclusivity,
Though faith alone grants security,

51. Kings desire numbers and pleasures,
Pursuing desire, the path of right forsaken,

52. What they seek is the course of the remnant,
Shortened for seekers of salvation,

53. Is not honor but a protected resolve?
When man's resolve cannot be broken?

54. No profit but in reliance on God,
A content soul needs little to be satisfied,

55. Rulers fear and worry,
Distress that leaves no room for patience,

56. We see, yet stupor obscures our vision,
Clouding us before we awaken,

57. Consider the Builder of the heavens as Earth's roof,
His knowledge includes its settled and empty tracts,

58. Who upholds cosmos lacking pillars,
On which its stability depends,

59. Who determined wise governance of it,
Making clear its night and day,

60. Who unfurled the waters over its face,
Feeding its mountains, plains and fruit,

61. Who made its blooms colored in their brilliance,
Some darkening gazes, some brightening sight,

62. Who carved rivers effortlessly,
From barren clefts, water burst forth,

63. Who garbed the radiant sun in whiteness by day,
Yellow by dusk and night adorns its cast,

64. Who created orbiting spheres, regulating their course,
Fixing their circuit, so turn never errs,

65. When minds were dimmed lacking reason,
No living soul their needs could provide,

66. Signs were made clear by His prophets,
Power perfected, though feeble before,

67. Who gave their mouths words of wisdom,
Beyond their capacity to relate or comprehend,

68. Who brought forth from silent stones, a she-camel,
Miraculously, they heard its cries,

69. So some may believe, others deny,
Brought by fate deserving annihilation,

70. Who clove a pathway for Moses in the sea,
Waves splitting, waters receding to bare its floor,

71. Who saved Abraham from the fire's burning rage,
Its flames and embers left him unscathed,

72. Who rescued Noah from the flood,
After his people rejected truth time and again,

73. Empowered David and his son,
Vanquishing a stubborn giant barring their way,

74. Subdued the land's tyrants by His command,
Taught from birds of the sky their speech,

75. Favored Ahmad's nation with the Qur'an's grace,
From the land's edge, gave him refuge in a cave,

76. Split the moon for him in the sky's expanse,
Blessed him with the signs of reigning truth,

77. Saved us from our masters' disbelief through him,
A guiding lamp, though darkness pressed near,

78. Why do we not leave ignorance be,
And submit, safe from the fire's sparks?