أَلْهَتْكُمُ الدُّنْيَا عَنِ الآخِرَهْ

وَهِيَ مِنَ الْجَهْلِ بِكُمْ سَاخِرَهْ

The world has distracted you from the hereafter

While it mocks you out of ignorance

وَغَرَّكُمْ مِنْهَا وَأَنْتُمْ بِكُمْ

جُوعٌ إِلَيْهَا قِدْرُهَا الْبَاخِرَهْ

It has deceived you while you

Hunger for it, worthless as it is

يَمْشِي الْفَتَى تِيهَاً وَفِي ثَوْبِهِ

مِنْ مَعْطِفَيْهِ جِيفَةٌ جَاخِرَهْ

The young man walks lost, with rotten carcass

In the folds of his cloak

كَأَنَّهُ فِي كِبْرِهِ سَادِرٌ

سَفِينَةٌ فِي لُجَّةٍ مَاخِرَهْ

As if in his pride he is a ship

Sailing in turbulent waters

كَمْ أَنْفُسٍ عَزَّتْ بِسُلْطَانِهَا

فِي ما مَضَى وَهْيَ إِذَنْ دَاخِرَهْ

How many souls prided in their power

In the past, now gone and vanished

وَعُصْبَةٍ كَانَتْ لأَمْوَالِهَا

مَظنَّةَ الْفَقْرِ بِهَا ذَاخِرَهْ

And groups that boasted of their wealth

As if poverty could never reach them

فَأَصْبَحَتْ يَرْحَمُهَا مَنْ يَرَى

وَقَدْ غَنَتْ فِي نِعْمَةٍ فَاخِرَهْ

They became pitied by those who see them

After reveling in ostentatious luxury

فَلا جَوَادٌ صَاهِلٌ عَزَّهُمْ

يَوْمَاً وَلا خَيْفَانَةٌ شَاخِرَهْ

No gallant steed honored them anymore

Nor a lofty tent

بَلْ عَمَّ دُنْيَاهُمْ صُرُوفٌ لَهَا

مِنَ الرَّدَى أَوْدِيَةٌ زَاخِرَهْ

Rather, the tides of time engulfed them

With valleys of misery ever-flowing

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمْ

وَاخْشَوْا عَذَابَ اللَّهِ وَالآخِرَهْ

O people, fear your Lord

And dread the torment of God and the hereafter

أَنْتُمْ قُعُودٌ وَالرَّدَى قَائِمٌ

يُسْقِيكُمُ بِالْكُوبِ وَالصَّاخِرَهْ

You sit while misery stands

To serve you full cups of bitterness

فَانْتَبِهُوا مِنْ غَفَلاتِ الْهَوَى

وَاعْتَبِرُوا بِالأَعْظُمِ النَّاخِرَهْ

So wake from the heedlessness of passion

And take example from the greatest downfall