اِنقَضَت شِرَّتي فَعِفتُ المَلاهي

إِذ رَمى الشَيبُ مَفرِقي بِالدَواهي

My youth has passed, and I've given up childish ways

My youthful fervor ends; I shun all play,

Since gray hairs have attacked my temples to abrade

For grey hair strikes my head with disarray.

وَنَهَتني النُهى فَمِلتُ إِلى العَد

لِ وَأَشفَقتُ مِن مَقالَةِ ناهِ

The prohibition turned me toward righteousness

Reason restrained me, so I sought the Just,

For I feared the talk of the blamer behind my back

And feared the warner's voice, as mortals must.

أَيُّها الغافِلُ المُقيمُ عَلى السَهَ

وِ وَلا عُذرَ في المُقامِ لِساهِ

O heedless one persisting upon sin so oft

O heedless one, who dwells in absent mind,

No excuse remains at the time of standing still

No true excuse for stupor will you find.

لا بِأَعمالِنا نُطيقُ خَلاصاً

يَومَ تَبدو السَماءُ فَوقَ الجِباهِ

On the day the sky lays bare what's atop all heads

Not by our deeds can we attain release,

By our deeds we cannot attain deliverance

The Day the sky appears above the brow.

غَيرَ أَنّي عَلى الإِساءَةِ وَالتَف

ريطِ راجٍ لِحُسنِ عَفوِ اللَهِ

Save that for my wrongs and neglect, I hope

Yet I, despite my sins and negligence,

God's bountiful pardon and grace I may invoke.

Hope for God's pardon and His benevolence.