1. Stinginess is a gloomy night
Generosity made Hatem glorious

2. Prefer, as your asset originates
The generous act likewise

3. Bear greatly, you'll be remembered
Do good, you'll be thanked

4. With your burden of difficulties
You enslave men

5. Preference is the thanks of glory
It paved the path of nobility and honor

6. Death is inevitable so do not
Pass away without glory

7. If I die, memory remains
Of life and honor

8. If you console
You'll be like some people

9. Virtue is in preference
And generosity in poverty

10. Giving away excess money
Is not a virtue

11. The dog, after eating his fill
Leaves everything left over

12. Al-Samaw'al's generosity
Exhilarates me, almost to the point of craziness

13. If it was his nature to act this way
Then he is the best hero

14. Or if he forced himself to do so
In order to extol his honor

15. Then he is patient
He has no equal

16. Distinction lies in pretense
And glory in imposition

17. Because it counters desires
And is an act that burns

18. And your self-coercion
To what you do not want out of glory

19. So doing one's desire
Is not good in the eyes of the censor

20. That too is a subtlety
Of defects beneath it

21. Indeed lofty souls
Are enamored of honorable deeds

22. So the orators have said
You have done well, O beauty!

23. The worst in manners
Is one who has experienced the experienced

24. Who could be more refined
Than the perfect, well-mannered?

25. What young man has not been tried?
What young man has not been reproached?