1. تَوَحَّد فَإِنَّ اللَهَ رَبَّكَ واحِدٌ

    وَلا تَرغَبَن في عِشرَةِ الرُؤَساءِ

    Live alone, for God, your Lord, is one.

    And never desire the company of leaders.

  2. يُقِلُّ الأَذى وَالعَيبَ في ساحَةِ الفَتى

    وَإِن هُوَ أَكدى قِلَّةُ الجُلَساءِ

    Harm and reproach in a young man's courtyard are lessened

    By having few companions, even if he is destitute.

  3. فَأُفٍّ لِعَصرَيهِم نَهارٍ وَحِندِسٍ

    وَجِنسَي رِجالٍ مِنهُمُ وَنِساءِ

    So fie on their two times, day and pitch-dark night,

    And on both sexes among them, men and women.

  4. وَلَيتَ وَليداً ماتَ ساعَةَ وَضعِهِ

    وَلَم يَرتَضِع مِن أُمِّهِ النُفَساءِ

    And would that a newborn had died at the moment of his birth,

    And had not suckled from his mother in childbed.

  5. يَقولُ لَها مِن قَبلِ نُطقِ لِسانِهِ

    تُفيدينَ بي أَن تُنكَبي وَتُسائي

    He says to her, before his tongue can speak:

    "Your gain through me is calamity and grief."