لا مجد لي بتقى أبي

لا مجد لي بتقى أبي

وسداده فيما سلكْ

وسداده فيما سلكْ

I find no glory in my father's piety,

No glory remains for me except my father,

or his uprightness in the path he trod,

And his righteousness in what he has undertaken,

وندى لجدي أفعم ال

وندى لجدي أفعم ال

وادي به ودم سفكْ

وادي به ودم سفكْ

or my grandfather's bounty—he filled the

And the dew of my grandfather who has made

valley with it—or the blood he shed,

The valley overflow with him and blood shed,

كشهادة الحسناء في

كشهادة الحسناء في

بيت أحلَّنِيَ الفلكْ

بيت أحلَّنِيَ الفلكْ

to match a fair woman's testimony in

Like the testimony of a beautiful woman in

a house where the heavens lodged me:

A house where destiny has settled me,

ذا أغلب الشعراء شي

ذا أغلب الشعراء شي

طاناً وألطفهم ملكْ

طاناً وألطفهم ملكْ

“This man is the mightiest of poets as a dev-

This one has overcome the poets as a

-il, and the gentlest of them as an angel.”

Devil and the most gentle of them as a king,

فبهذه تيهي إذا

فبهذه تيهي إذا

تاه الغنيُّ بما ملكْ

تاه الغنيُّ بما ملكْ

In this, then, lies my pride, when

So with this I wander when

the wealthy man boasts of what he owns.

The rich man wanders with what he possesses.