1. عوائد اللَه الجميل

    فكن ظنونك بالجميل جميله

    The customary favors of God, the Beautiful One—

    So let your thoughts of the Beautiful One be beautiful.

  2. فان جهدك مستحيل

    ما قد قضى ما عاد فيه حيله

    For your striving is futile:

    What He has decreed—there is no longer any way around it.

  3. ان التضجر والعويل

    طبع الجبان والذلة الرذيله

    Indeed, grumbling and wailing

    Are the coward's nature and vile abasement.

  4. فمدّتك فيها قليل

    واستقبلتك أيامك الطويله

    For your time in it is brief,

    And your long days await you.

  5. أمامك الحبت الطويل

    لا تقطعه ليله ولا ألف ليله

    Before you lies the long expanse;

    You cannot cross it in a night, nor in a thousand nights.

  6. فكن تاهب للرحيل

    من زاده التقوى سهل سبيله

    So be ready for departure.

    He whose provision is piety has an easy path.

  7. اصبر واحذر أن تميل

    إلى الجباية تحرم الفضيله

    Be patient, and beware of inclining

    Toward tax-collecting, lest you be deprived of virtue.

  8. محال أن يرقا الذليل

    في المعالي رتبة جليله

    It is impossible for the abject to rise

    To an exalted rank among the heights of honor.

  9. كم جيل يتبع اثر جيل

    وكم قبيله اثرها قبيله

    How many a generation follows another generation's footsteps,

    And how many a tribe has another tribe in its wake.

  10. أفناهم الربّ الجليل

    فما التوطن أيها الخذيله

    The Majestic Lord has made them perish.

    Why, then, settle down, O weakling?

  11. لا بدّ لك من عزرئيل

    وربّ غصة بعدها مهوله

    There is no escaping Azrael for you.

    And many a choking pang is followed by something dreadful.

  12. لكن عطا المولى جزيل

    شفيعنا المختار ذو الوسيله

    But the Master's bounty is abundant.

    Our intercessor, the Chosen One, holder of the station of nearness,

  13. شافع مشفع في النقيل

    يا سعد من حمولته ثقيله

    An intercessor whose intercession is accepted at the mountain pass.

    How fortunate is the one whose load is heavy!