تقوى على الإم والأوزار تحملُها

ولست تقوى على تقواك محتمَلا

You have the strength to bear burdens for your mother,

Yet you lack the strength to bear your own piety.

وكم توَغّلتَ في الإعجاب مشتملا

بالجهل والحلم أسنى منه مشتمَلا

How deeply you have delved into self-conceit,

Cloaked in ignorance and vain hopes far worse than it.

من شاء في غدهِ ممّا جنى سلماً

فلا يعف لابساً في يومه سملا

Whoever desires safety tomorrow from what he reaps today

Should not wear a garment of heedlessness in his time.

زهدت في الزهد مغتَرّا بفانيةٍ

أعراضُها وعلقت الحرص والأملا

I became disinterested in asceticism, fooled by the transience

Of its external features, and instead held onto greed and hopes.

ولو أنفت من الأوصاف واصمَها

عند الأنام ألفت العلم والعمَلا

Had I turned away from character faults and deafened myself

To the people's knowledge and deeds, I'd have found perfection.

يا راعيَ المال والأهلين مجتهدا

صرف الردى يسع المرعيّ والهمَلا

O shepherd of wealth and family, striving

To avert harm, there is room for the flock and the strays.

طوبى لمن دان دنياه بواجبَها

تنقّصا وابتفى فيها الرضى كمَلا

Happy is he who makes his worldly duties subordinate

To his faith, decreasing them to attain complete satisfaction.

إذا تأمّل سكر المجرمين غداً

لم يخش سكرا بإجرام ولا ثمَلا

When the drunkard contemplates the agony of the sinners tomorrow,

He will fear neither intoxication, nor sin, nor anguish.