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Time passes by fulfilling its course as if they

الدهر يزبق من حواه كأنهم

1. Time passes by fulfilling its course as if they
Are a poem whose rhymes keeps changing, now red now green

١. الدَهرُ يَزبِقُ مِن حَواهُ كَأَنَّهُم
شَعرٌ يُغَيَّرُ فَهوَ أَحمَرُ أَزبَقُ

2. And fate keeps rhyming while people are like beasts
Always shackled by destiny's decree

٢. وَالبَهمُ يُربَقُ وَالأَنامُ بَهائِمٌ
أَبَداً تُقَيَّدُ بِالقَضاءِ وَتُربَقُ

3. A cycle turns over crowds of gathered stars
As if it's a prison closed over them

٣. فَلَكٌ يَدورُ عَلى مَعاشِرَ جَمَّةٍ
وَكَأَنَّهُ سِجنٌ عَلَيهِم مُطبَقُ

4. At every moment, harm pours down from the rain
Targeting places selectively and blanketing

٤. في كُلِّ حينٍ يَستَهِلُّ مِنَ الأَذى
مَطَرٌ يَخُصُّ أَماكِناً وَيُطَبِّقُ

5. Passions clash meanly even if they become
Like mourners where every taste is rotten

٥. مُهَجٌ تَهارَشُ في الخَسيسِ وَإِن غَدَت
كَالنابِحاتِ فَكُلُّ طَعمٍ خِربَقُ

6. Do not rejoice at what you have attained an ascent
And if you raced ahead, soon you will be outrun

٦. لا تَفرَحَنَّ بِما بَلَغتَ مِنَ العُلا
وَإِذا سَبَقتَ فَعَن قَليلٍ تُسبَقُ

7. So let the sensible beware of boasting which is
For merit a lethal disaster and a wretched pitfall

٧. وَلِيَحذَر الدَعوى اللَبيبُ فَإِنَّها
لِلفَضلِ مَهلَكَةٌ وَخَطبٌ موبَقُ

8. If the full moon said I am but a coin
Fools would say you are tarnished and fake

٨. لَو قالَ بَدرُ التَمِّ إِني دِرهَمٌ
قالَت لَهُ السَفهاءُ أَنتَ مُزأَبِقُ

9. Beware of this world for the dress it wears
Wears out bodies while its scent does not last

٩. إِيّاكَ وَالدُنِّيا فَإِنَّ لِباسَها
يُبلي الجُسومَ وَطَيبُها لا يَعبَقُ

10. It has anxieties that ruin souls precipitously
While its joys in our hearts do not befit

١٠. وَلَها هُمومٌ بِالنُفوسِ لَوابِقٌ
وَسُرورُها بِصُدورِنا لا يَلبَقُ

11. And God who created us for a purpose He intended
Slaves flee while His servant does not

١١. وَاللَهُ خالِقُنا لِأَمرٍ شاءَهُ
أَبَقَ العَبيدُ وَعَبدُهُ لا يَأبَقُ