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You see little when you ask him

ترى الكثير قليلا حين تسأله

1. You see little when you ask him,
And multitudes do not trouble his serenity.

١. تَرى الكَثيرَ قَليلاً حين تَسأَلُهُ
وَلا مخالِجهُ المُخلوجَةُ الكُثُرُ

2. O name of patience over what has happened -
Events are a testing ground and awaited.

٢. يا اِسمَ صَبراً عَلى ما كانَ مِن حَدَث
إنَّ الحَوادِثَ مَلقى ومُنتَظَرُ

3. Patience over the vicissitudes of fate and withdraw
From baseness - the free man endures heat.

٣. صَبراً عَلى حَدَثانِ الدَهرِ وَاِنقَبِضي
عَنِ الدَناءَةِ إِنَّ الحرَّ يَصطَبِرُ

4. Do not spend the night anxious, suffering it,
As if there were fire flaming in the entrails.

٤. وَلا تَبيتَنَّ ذا هَمَّ تكابدهُ
كَأَنَّما النارُ في الأَحشاءِ تَستَعِرُ

5. What I was granted, God is its bringer.
What I was deprived of goes with fate's flow.

٥. فَما رُزِقت فَإِنَّ اللَهَ جالِبهُ
وَما حُرِمت فَما يَجري بِهِ القَدَرُ

6. We raise them up whenever an outstanding debt grows for them
With splendor - without that they would have commanded.

٦. نَعلوهُم كَلَّما يَنمي لَهُم سَلَفٌ
بِالمَشرَفي وَلَولا ذاكَ قَد أَمروا