تعلم ما جهلت تعش حميداً

تعلم ما جهلت تعش حميداً

وقيد ما تعلم بالكتاب

وقيد ما تعلم بالكتاب

Learn what you do not know, and you will live honorably.

Learn what you did not know, and you will live honorably.

And commit what you learn to writing.

And record what you learn in writing.

وزد في شكل ما قيدتَ منه

وزد في شكل ما قيدتَ منه

والا ند عن عقلِ الصوابِ

والا ند عن عقلِ الصوابِ

And add vowel marks to what you have recorded from it,

And add more vowel marks to what you have recorded of it.

otherwise it will slip from the grasp of sound understanding.

Otherwise, it will stray from the tether of correctness.