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most times hunger (poverty) is more evil that overeating.
And shed tears from those eyes that have become full of the forbidden,
and incline to the way of regret,
and oppose (your) self (nafs) and satan - disobey them both!
And should both of them give you sincere advice accuse them of lying,
and neither obey them as an enemy nor yet as a ruler,
for you know well the deception of (such) an enemy or a ruler.
I seek forgiveness from Allah from such sayings without practice,
indeed, I have attributed (claimed), through this, offspring from the owner of the barren.
I command you to do good, but, I do not command myself to do the same.
And shed tears from those eyes that have become full of the forbidden,
and incline to the way of regret,
and oppose (your) self (nafs) and satan - disobey them both!
And should both of them give you sincere advice accuse them of lying,
and neither obey them as an enemy nor yet as a ruler,
for you know well the deception of (such) an enemy or a ruler.
I seek forgiveness from Allah from such sayings without practice,
indeed, I have attributed (claimed), through this, offspring from the owner of the barren.
I command you to do good, but, I do not command myself to do the same.