الْمَقَامَةُ الْمَرَاغِيَّةُ

English: Supplication fulfills

Yoruba: Àdúrà ń mú ìlérí ṣẹ

English: And praise purifies

Yoruba: Ìyìn sì ń fọ ni mọ́

English: The noble one rewards

Yoruba: Ọmọlúàbí ń san èrè

English: And clinging disgraces

Yoruba: Ìfara-mọ́-ni ń mú ojú ti ni

English: Discarding the respected one is error

Yoruba: Fífi ẹni tó ní iyì nù jẹ́ àṣìṣe

English: And prohibiting the hopeful ones is transgression

Yoruba: Dídí àwọn tó ní ìrètí lọ́nà jẹ́ ìwà búburú

English: None is stingy except the deceived

Yoruba: Kò sí ẹni tó ń ṣe ahun àyàfi ẹni tí a tàn jẹ

English: And none is deceived except the stingy

Yoruba: Bẹ́ẹ̀ ni a kò le tan ẹnikẹ́ni jẹ àyàfi ahun

English: And none hoards except the wretched

Yoruba: Kò sí ẹni tó ń kó dúkìá jọ àyàfi ẹni tó ń jìyà

English: And no pious one withholds his palm

Yoruba: Bẹ́ẹ̀ ni kò sí olùbọ̀wọ̀ fún Ọlọ́run tó ń fa ọwọ́ rẹ̀ sẹ́yìn