1. يَا وَالِيَ الْعُمْرِ وَأَلْقَابُهُ

    لَهَا إِلَى التَّضْييعِ فَرْطُ انْتِسَابْ

    O ruler of life—and its titles

    Have an excessive affinity with squandering.

  2. لاَ تَأمَنِ الدَّهْرَ وَعُدْوَانَهُ

    عَلَيْكَ فَالدَّهْرُ سَرِيعُ الْحِسَابْ

    Do not feel safe from Time and its aggression

    Against you, for Time is swift in reckoning.