1. غويك نفس بين جنبيك تنزغ

    لها حية لم ترقها فهي تلدغ

    Your tempter is a soul between your sides, inciting you to evil.

    It has a serpent you have not charmed, so it bites.

  2. غفلت وقد حان الرحيل وقوضت

    خيام ولا زاد لديك مبلغ

    You have been heedless, though departure's hour has come, and struck

    Are the tents; you have no provisions to see you through.

  3. غنى النفس خير من غنى المال إنه

    حساب وشغل شاغل ليس يفرغ

    The soul's contentment is better than wealth in money, for the latter

    Is a reckoning and an absorbing preoccupation that never ends.