يا ساكِنَ الدُنيا لَقَد أَوطَنتَها

وَأَمِنتَها عَجَباً وَكَيفَ أَمِنتَها

O dweller of the world, you have settled it

And secured it wondrously—how did you secure it?

وَشَغَلتَ قَلبَكَ عَن مَعادِكَ بِالمُنى

وَخَدَعتَ نَفسَكَ بِالهَوى وَفَتَنتَها

You busied your heart with pleasures instead of the Hereafter

You tricked yourself with passions and seduced it

إِن كُنتَ مُعتَبِراً فَقَد أَبصَرتَ أَح

والَ الشَبيبَةِ مِنكَ وَاِستَيقَنتَها

If you were prudent, you would have seen the rights

Of youthfulness upon you and been certain of them

أَوَلَم تَرَ الشَهَواتِ كَيفَ تَنَكَّرَت

عَمّا عَهِدتَ وَرُبَّما لَوَّنَتها

Have you not seen how desires change

From what you knew, and sometimes even alter them?

أَكرَمتَ نَفسَكَ بِالهَوانِ لَها وَلَو

كَرُمَت عَلَيكَ نَصَحتَها وَأَهَنتَها

You honored yourself with disgrace for them, even if

You advised and humiliated them, they would have honored you

يا ساكِنَ الدُنيا كَأَنَّكَ خِلتَ أَن

نَكَ خالِدٌ فَجَمَعتَها وَخَزَنتَها

O dweller of the world, it’s as if you thought

You would live forever—so you gathered and hoarded it

يا ساكِنَ الدُنيا طَفِقتَ تُزَيِّنُ ال

دُنيا بِما لا يَستَقيمُ فَشِنتَها

O dweller of the world, you kept adorning

The world with what cannot be made right—so you disputed it

اِذكُر أَحِبَّتَكَ الَّذينَ ثَكِلتَهُم

اِذكُر رُهوناً في التُرابِ رَهَنتَها

Remember your loved ones whom you orphaned

Remember the pawned ones in the soil—you pawned them

وَلَخَيرُ ما قَدَّمتَ سُنَّةُ صالِحٍ

لِلصالِحينَ فَعَلتَها وَسَنَنتَها

The best of what you put forth is the Sunnah of the Righteous

For the righteous, you did it and systemized it