X: Whereas the oyster with a single drop of…

Whereas the oyster with a single drop of rain-water is satisfied,
Its priceless pearls go out into every country, and every clime.

If thou seek after honour, be then with thy lot content!
Shouldst thou to eminence aspire, of what thou hast, liberally give!

The ties of the wealth of the world are the bonds of Hell;
Hence the free and noble placed it on the palms of their hands.

L have with mine own eyes well watched the world's people--
One amasseth wealth with great avarice; another wasteth it away.

Since life itself is not perpetual, what then advantageth it,
Though one, in magnificence, a Suliman, or an Asaf be?

A man's superiority, in wisdom and knowledge consisteth;
The beast's, in grazing; and on hay, and on grass, growing fat.

If thou art magnanimous, pain not the hearts of others;
But make thine heart the target of the arrows of good and bad!

O Aeabd-ul-Kadir! have the fear of God ever before thee;
For unto them that fear, He hath said, "Fear thou not!"