If you are wise, incline towards meaning

For meaning remains in place of form.

One who has no knowledge, generosity, and piety

His form has no meaning within.

Someone sleeps peacefully under the earth

From whom people sleep with peaceful hearts.

Take care of your own needs in life, for relatives

Will not care for the dead out of their own greed.

Give away gold and wealth now, for it is yours

For after you, it is beyond your control.

If you do not want to be scattered-hearted (anxious)

Do not neglect the scattered ones (needy) from your mind.

Distribute your tightly held treasure today

For tomorrow its key is not in your hand.

Take your own provisions with you

For compassion will not come from children and wife.

Someone wins the ball of fortune from the world

Who takes a share with himself to the afterlife.

In sympathy, like my fingertip

No one in the world scratches my back (cares for me).

Do not place everything you have on the palm of your hand (do not be extravagant)

For tomorrow you will bite the back of your hand in regret.

Strive to cover the poverty of the dervish

For God's covering will be your veil.

Do not turn away the stranger from your door without a share

Lest you become a stranger at doors.

Greatness brings good to the needy

Who fears that he himself will become needy to others.

Look at the condition of the broken-hearted

Lest one day you yourself become broken-hearted.

Make the hearts of the downtrodden happy

Remember the day of your own helplessness.

Were you not a beggar at the doors of others?

In gratitude, do not turn away a beggar from your door.