1. يا مَنْ غَدا يُنفقُ العُمْرَ الثَّمِيْنَ بِلا

    جَدْوَى سِوى جَمْعِ مالٍ خِيفَةَ العَدَمِ

    O you who have taken to spending your precious life without

    any benefit but amassing wealth for fear of poverty,

  2. اِرْجِعْ لِنَفْسِكَ وانظُرْ في تَخَلُّصِها

    فقَدْ قَذفتَ بها في لُجَّةِ العَدَمِ

    Return to your soul and consider how to rescue it,

    for you have cast it into the deep waters of nothingness.