1. لتندمنَّ على ما كان من عملٍ

    تبغي به عوضاً من عند مخلوقِ

    You will surely regret any deed you have done,

    seeking through it recompense from a created being,

  2. وتسخط الله فيه وهو رازقكم

    وما لكم عوضٌ عنه بتحقيق

    and angering God thereby, though He is your provider.

    And in truth you have no substitute for Him.

  3. إن الذي يعبد الرحمن تبصره

    كمصحفٍ ضائعٍ في بيتِ زِنديق

    Indeed, you see the one who worships the All-Merciful

    like a neglected copy of the Qur'an in a heretic's house.

  4. إنَّ الفتى مَن رأى الأفراس توصله

    به فيمسح بالأعناقِ والسوق

    Indeed, the noble youth is he who sees the steeds bring him

    to Him, and so strokes their necks and shanks,

  5. حبالها عندما كانت أدلته

    عليه لم يرها جاءت لتشقيق

    out of love for them, as they were his proofs

    of Him; he did not think they had come to be cut apart.

  6. وكيف جاءتْ لتشقيقٍ وإنَّ لها

    تسبيحَ خالِقها حقَّاً بتصديقِ

    And how could they have come to be cut apart, when theirs is

    true glorification of their Creator, offered in faith?

  7. الله كرمها جوداً وأهلها

    لكلِّ صالحةٍ تأهيلُ معشوق

    God has generously honored them and readied them

    for every good deed, as a beloved is readied.

  8. لله نفسٌ براها الله من عرقِ

    الأفراس في حلبةِ الأفراسِ والنوق

    To God belongs a soul that God fashioned from the sweat of

    steeds, on the racecourse of steeds and she-camels.