1. اُنظُر إلى الأيام كيفَ تَقودُنا

    قَسْراً إلى الإِقرارِ بالأقْدَارِ

    Look at the days, how they lead us

    forcibly to acknowledge the decrees of fate.

  2. ما أوقدَ ابنُ طُلَيْبِ قطُّ بِدارهِ

    نَاراً وكان هلاكُها بالنّارِ

    Ibn Tulayb never kindled in his house

    a fire, yet his house was destroyed by fire.