1. إذا شئت السلام فالزم الدار

    وكف النطق مع سمع وأبصار

    If you desire peace, keep to your home.

    And restrain speech, along with hearing and sight.

  2. ولا تسأل على ماالناس فيه

    ولا تكشف ولا تبحث عن أخبار

    Do not ask about what occupies people,

    nor uncover things or seek out news.

  3. عسى تسلم عسى تنجو وتحفظ

    عسى تكفي عسى تحمي من أشرار

    Perhaps you will be safe, perhaps escape and be protected;

    perhaps you will be spared, perhaps protected from evildoers.

  4. فلا خير في النجوى مع الناس

    سوى أمر بمعروف أو إنكار

    There is no good in private conversation with people,

    except enjoining what is right or denouncing wrong.

  5. وما أجمل ما أحسن شخصا

    شغل بالبرقى سر وإظهار

    And how beautiful, how fine is a person

    occupied with righteousness, in secret and openly.

  6. وكن حلسا لبيتك امتثالا

    لأمر المصطفى في جملة أخبار

    And be a mat in your home, in obedience

    to the Chosen One's command in a number of reports.

  7. وخذ لك من علوم الدين حظا

    يقيك الاثم والآفات والنار

    And take for yourself a share of religious knowledge,

    which protects you from sin, afflictions, and the Fire.

  8. به تعرف فروضك والمحرم

    به تبصر أسرارا وأنوار

    Through it you know your obligations and what is forbidden;

    through it you perceive mysteries and lights.

  9. به كل السر وروكل خير

    به تحفظ من آفات الأغيار

    Through it come all joy and every good.

    Through it you are protected from the harms of others.

  10. به تعطي المطالب والمواهب

    به تكتب في ديوان الأبرار

    Through it you are granted what you seek and gifts;

    through it you are inscribed in the register of the righteous.

  11. به ترفع همومك مع عمومك

    ولا يبقى عليك أحزان وأكدار

    Through it your worries and sorrows are lifted,

    and no sorrows or troubles remain upon you.

  12. وذكر الله لازمة وواظب

    عليه في عشيات وأبكار

    Keep to the remembrance of God, and persevere

    in it during evenings and early mornings.

  13. ففيه النور والخيرات أجمع

    جليس الله من ديدنه أذكار

    For in it are light and every blessing;

    God's companion is one whose constant habit is remembrance.

  14. به النفحات والجذبات تأتي

    من الله مع الرحمات مدرارا

    Through it come wafts of grace and spiritual attractions

    from God, with mercies pouring abundantly.

  15. به غرس الجنان فكن حريصا

    على غرس بها من كل الأشجار

    Through it the gardens of Paradise are planted, so be eager

    to plant in them trees of every kind.

  16. فاغرس في حياتك قبل موتك

    لتجني منها بعد الموت أثمار

    So plant during your life, before your death,

    to gather fruits from them after death:

  17. قطوفا دانيات دائمات

    منعم ما ترى الأكل شيء سار

    fruit clusters close at hand, everlasting.

    Living in bliss, you see nothing but delightful things;

  18. مخلد لا ترى بؤسا بعمر

    طويل ليس يشبه كل الأعمار

    abiding forever, you see no misery in a life

    so long that it resembles no other lifespan.

  19. وإن شئت العلوم بكل فن

    كتاب الله رتله بتكرار

    And if you desire knowledge in every discipline,

    recite the Book of God in measured tones, again and again.

  20. ففيه الشرح للصدر ففيه

    الهدى فيه الشفا من كل شيء ضار

    For in it is expansion of the breast; for in it

    is guidance; in it is healing from every harmful thing.

  21. الا يا رب أرشدنا وسدد

    ووفقنا لملة خير مختار

    Ah, O Lord, guide us and set us aright,

    and enable us to follow the faith of the best chosen one.

  22. على هدي النبي نسير جمعا

    ونمشي في ورود بل واصدار

    May we all walk according to the Prophet's guidance,

    and walk thus in our coming—indeed, in our departing too.

  23. فإن الله ذوفضل عظيم

    فكم أعطى بلا حد ومقدار

    For God possesses immense bounty;

    how much He has given, without limit or measure!

  24. فلا تقنط ولا تأمن وكن بين ذين

    الخصلتين طريق الأخيار

    So do not despair, nor feel secure, but remain between these

    two qualities: the path of the virtuous.

  25. وسلمنا إلهي من شرور

    بها يمشي كثير الحلم محتار

    And preserve us, my God, from evils

    amid which one of great understanding walks bewildered.

  26. فسلمنا بمحض الفضل منها

    كما عودتنا يا خير غفار

    So preserve us from them through sheer bounty,

    as is Your custom with us, O best of forgivers.

  27. فكم شر كفيت وكم كروب

    زويت وما يقي من تلك آثار

    How much evil You have warded off, and how many distresses

    You have removed, leaving no traces of them.

  28. فأرجو سواك لكشف ضرى

    ولستب أخاف إلا النافع الضار

    Would I then hope in anyone but You to remove my affliction?

    And I fear none but the Giver of benefit and harm.

  29. كفى علمك ولكن ما صبرنا

    وأيضا في الدعا جملة أسرار

    Your knowledge suffices, yet we have not been patient;

    and besides, supplication contains a host of mysteries:

  30. خطاب وافتقار والتعبد

    لأمرك به بقرآن وأخبار

    addressing You, acknowledging need, and worship,

    because You commanded it in the Qur'an and reports.

  31. فياستار يا غفار استر

    وأغفر كل عصياني والأوزار

    So, O Concealer, O Forgiver, conceal

    and forgive all my disobedience and burdens of sin.

  32. وسلمنا من المكروه في ذه

    وفي الأخرى من الأهوال والنار

    And preserve us from distress in this world,

    and in the next, from terrors and the Fire.

  33. وهب لي سيدي قلبا سليما

    صحيحا طاهرا جهرا وإضمار

    And grant me, my Master, a sound heart,

    healthy and pure, outwardly and inwardly,

  34. فنمشي به صراطا مستيما

    صراط الله في علن وإسرار

    so that through it we walk a straight path,

    God's path, in public and in secret;

  35. وخلقا طيبا حسنا عظيما

    به نحفظ من ضر واضرار

    and a good, beautiful, noble character,

    through which we are protected from harm and harming others;

  36. وحسن الخاتمة للكل منا

    إذا تمت ليالينا والأعمار

    and a good end for every one of us,

    when our nights and lifespans are complete,

  37. بها ترضى عن الكل جميعا

    بها نوقي جميع الخزي والعار

    through which You are pleased with us all,

    through which we are shielded from all disgrace and shame.

  38. بجاه المصطفى الهادي محمد

    شفيع الخلق تقضي كل الأوطار

    By the standing of the Chosen One, the Guide, Muhammad,

    the intercessor for creation, may You fulfill every desire.

  39. عليه صلاة ربي كل حين

    وسلم ما تحرك غصن أشجار

    Upon him be my Lord's blessings at every moment,

    and grant him peace as long as a tree branch moves,

  40. تعم الآل والأصحاب جمعا

    مهاجرهم وباديهم والأنصار

    embracing all his family and companions,

    their emigrants, their desert-dwellers, and the Ansar.

  41. ولله الكريم أجل حمد

    يكرر دائما في كل الأعصار

    And to God, the Generous, belongs the loftiest praise,

    repeated continually throughout every age.

  42. وختم القول خذ نصحا عجيبا

    إذا شئت السلامة فالزم الدار

    And to close these words, take this wondrous counsel:

    If you desire safety, keep to your home.