سرورُكَ بالدنيا غرورٌ فلا تكن

بدُنياك مسروراً فتصبحَ مغرورا

Your joy with this world is an illusion, so do not

Be joyful with your world, lest you become deluded.

ولا تأمنِ الأحداثَ واخشَ بَيَاتها

فكم نسفت دوراً وكم كسفت نوراً

Do not feel safe from events, but fear their calamities,

For how many homes have they destroyed and how many lights extinguished.

وأخسرُ أهلِ الأرضِ من عاشَ غافلاً

فلم يحيَ مشكوراً ولم يفنَ معذوراً

And the most lost of all people is he who lived heedlessly,

For he did not live thanked, nor did he die excused.