إِيّاكَ وَالبَغيَ وَالبُهتانَ وَالغيبَة

وَالشَكَّ وَالشِركَ وَالطُغيانَ وَالريبَه

Beware of transgression, slander, gossip,

Suspicion, idolatry, tyranny, and doubt.

ما زادَكَ السِنُّ مِن مِثقالِ خَردَلَةٍ

إِلّا تَقَرَّبَ مِنكَ المَوتُ تَقريبَه

As you grow older by not an atom's weight

Does death not draw closer to you, await.

فَما بَقاؤكَ وَالأَيّامُ مُسرِعَةٌ

تَصعيدَةً فيكَ أَحياناً وَتَصويبَه

What is your stay when time swiftly flies,

Now raising you, now causing your demise?

وَإِنَّ لِلدَهرِ لَو يُحصى تَقَلُّبُهُ

في كُلِّ طَرفَةِ عَينٍ مِنكَ تَقليبَه

If the vicissitudes of fate could be told

In every blink, how much change they would hold!