1. ألا يا راكباً غرر المعاصي

    ستعلم يوم يؤخذ بالنواصي

    Take heed, O you who ride the foremost sins:

    You will know on the day people are seized by their forelocks.

  2. تذكر ما يقص عليك منها

    وجانب ما يعرض للقصاص

    Remember what is recounted to you about them,

    And shun whatever exposes you to retribution.

  3. فإن لم تترك الدنيا خراباً

    فقبرك غير معمور العراص

    For if you do not leave the world desolate,

    Then your grave's precincts will not be built up.

  4. وإن لم تخلص الأعمال منها

    فلست من الجحيم بذي خلاص

    And if you do not cleanse your deeds of it,

    Then you will have no deliverance from Hell.

  5. وينشب بالفتى ظفر المنايا

    ولو أن الفتى للأسْد خاص

    And death's claw sinks into the young man,

    Even if that young man were a castrator of lions.