قانص الفرصة واعلم أنها

كمضي البرق تمضي الفرص

Seize opportunity and know that it

Seize the opportunity, and know full well

Passes like lightning do opportunities

That like a flash of lightning, opportunities slip away.

كم أمور أمكنت أمهلها

هي عندي إذ تولت غصص

How many things I could have done

How many chances within my grasp did I delay,

Had I not been obsessed with worries

Which now, having passed, leave me choking with regret.

بادر الكنز الذي ألفيته

وانتهز صيداً كبازٍ يقنص

Seek the treasure you have found

Hasten toward the treasure you have found,

And grasp like a falcon hunting prey

And seize your prey like a falcon on the hunt.