إِذا ما خَلَوتَ الدَهرَ يَوماً فَلا تَقُل

خَلَوتُ وَلَكِن قُل عَلَيَّ رَقيبُ

If ever in solitude you spend an hour, do not say

If ever you are secluded in the course of time, do not say,

"I am alone, for nobody sees me."

"I am alone," but rather say, "Over me there is a Watcher."

وَلا تَحسَبَنَّ اللَهَ يَغفَلُ ساعَةً

وَلا أَنَّ ما يَخفى عَلَيكَ يَغيبُ

Think not God fails to see you at any time,

And never reckon that Allah is unmindful for a single moment,

or that which hides you shall conceal you from Him.

Nor that what is veiled from you is absent from His view.

لَهَونا بِعُمرٍ طالَ حَتّى تَرادَفَت

ذُنوبٌ عَلى آثارِهِنَّ ذُنوبُ

We have sinned enough in a life long and vile

We trifled with a life that lasted long, until there piled up

until sins on their traces have left sins' marks and stains.

Sins, and following upon their traces, yet more sins.