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Wretched is the testimony when you ask for a testimony

بئس الشهادة إذا سألت شهادة

1. Wretched is the testimony when you ask for a testimony
The flatterer hopes for its loan and its borrowing

١. بِئسَ الشَهادَةُ إِذا سَأَلتَ شَهادَةٌ
يَرجو المُلاطِفُ قَرضَها وَقِراضَها

2. And the worst of men's companions is a gang
That gives you its backs without its clothes

٢. وَلِشَرُّ أَصحابِ الرِجالِ عِصابَةٌ
تُعطيكَ دونَ ثِيابِها أَعراضَها

3. Indeed the nights do not get old from them
Except to achieve their purposes in them

٣. إِنَّ اللَيالِيَ ما تَصَرَّمُ عَنهُمُ
إِلّا لِتَبلُغَ فيِهُمُ أَغراضَها

4. Or have you not seen corpses being carried
While the wrongdoers walk in front of it and its biers

٤. أَو ما رَأَيتَ جَنائِزاً مَحمولَةً
تَمشي الغُواةُ أَمامَها وَعِراضَها

5. It seeks from hopes the disgrace of a helper
Those difficulties made weary whoever satisfied them

٥. تَبغي مِنَ الآمالِ ذِلَّةَ مُسعِفٍ
تِلكَ المَصاعِبُ أَتعَّبَت مَن راضَها

6. The doctor rushed to the medicine but for destruction
A cup whose maladies and diseases encompass its health

٦. بَكَرَ الطَبيبُ عَلى الدَواءِ وَلِلرِدى
كَأسٌ تَعُمُّ صِحاحَها وَمِراضَها