1. If man believes in God, let him be wise
And not mix his faith with blasphemy

2. When the soul departs the body it will not
Return, so drive it away by what it has done in aversion

3. As if a newborn died before falling
On the ground, saved from his swaddling clothes in deliverance

4. I wish I were between a garden and a spring
With the wild beasts, not building Egypt nor blaspheming

5. They say the hyena's mind holds wisdom
If its tablets were written, they would fill volumes

6. And a she-camel in Rut suckled wealth
Like forgiveness suckling mercy in forgiveness

7. Whenever your hands are filled with your worldly goods
It sends a bare-handed one to return the palm empty

8. Do you seek a gift from the mother of insects?!
When she has scattered her offspring amongst them in dispersion

9. And how many a dirty-faced one between her straps
Used to pelt the skins and wool before her

10. I have risen with the living since my birth
To this day we do not cease in constant journeying

11. And your Lord has provided sustenance to the depressions and the dunes
And rained death upon the buildings and wastelands

12. And if God endears the sword to a man
He endows him with it in every peril as a victory

13. And makes his eyelids eyelids for his eyes
And his skull a skull for his head and his blade a blade

14. And an honorable clan has woven a branch
So none dissolved it but the washing women for him in plaiting

15. Its string drew near to her palm in worship
And it cast dinars with its palm yellow

16. If the companions of a musical tone abandon it
It remains desiring the companions of chanting

17. And we have returned without farewells to our abode of life
And we will leave it one day when we travel farewells

18. And if the Creator did not ordain for the lion its prey
He would not have given it the fang and claw

19. The nights grow long and time passes
Events that leave no trace upon its back

20. And there is no doubt about the goal of the exalted one to the earth
Even if he is equal to the whales and locusts

21. And if the celestial constellations were his constellations
Something other than them would be changed easily

22. I wondered at parchment being chosen
By a people for their scripture a binding

23. Just as the rainwater quenched the rainwater bearer
It sometimes rivals a reservoir of their wells