1. المَرءُ يَشقى بِكُلِّ أَمرٍ

    لَم يُسعِدِ اللَهُ فيهِ جَدَّه

    A man suffers in every matter

    in which God has not granted him good fortune.

  2. وَكُلُّ شَيءٍ فَقَدتَ يَوماً

    وَاِعتَضتَ عَنهُ نَسيتَ فَقدَه

    And anything you lose one day

    and find a substitute for—you forget its loss.

  3. لَم يَفقِدِ المَرءُ نَفعَ شَيءٍ

    سَدَّ لَهُ غَيرُهُ مَسَدَّه

    A man has not lost the benefit of a thing

    when another has filled its place for him.