من يصحب الدهر يبصر من تقلّبه

من يصحب الدهر يبصر من تقلّبه

اشياء أصغرها يأتي على العجب

اشياء أصغرها يأتي على العجب

Whoever keeps company with Time sees, in all its reversals,

Whoever keeps company with time sees, in its changes,

things whose least is enough to beggar wonder.

things whose least is enough to inspire wonder.

من يسلم الناس من فيه ومن يده

من يسلم الناس من فيه ومن يده

يصحب من الدهر عيشا خير مصطحب

يصحب من الدهر عيشا خير مصطحب

Whoever keeps people safe from his mouth and his hand

Whoever leaves people safe from his mouth and his hand

will pass through life with Time, needing no companion.

finds in time a life that is the best of companions.

من يفعل الخير لا يلقى سواه كما

من يفعل الخير لا يلقى سواه كما

من يفعل الشر يلق الشر في العقب

من يفعل الشر يلق الشر في العقب

Whoever does good will meet with nothing but good, just as

Whoever does good encounters only good, just as

whoever does evil will meet evil in the end.

whoever does evil meets evil in the aftermath.

من يكرم الناس يكرم أو يهن أحدا

من يكرم الناس يكرم أو يهن أحدا

يهن ومن لم يهب أكفاه لم يهب

يهن ومن لم يهب أكفاه لم يهب

Whoever honors people is honored; whoever humiliates another

Whoever honors people is honored; or, if he humiliates someone,

is humiliated. Whoever does not fear his peers will not be feared.

he is humiliated; and he whose hands do not give is not feared.

من يكسب المال يصحبه البعيد كما

من يكسب المال يصحبه البعيد كما

من يعدم المال يصرمه ذوو القرب

من يعدم المال يصرمه ذوو القرب

Whoever acquires wealth finds even distant folk attending him, just as

Whoever acquires wealth is befriended by strangers, just as

whoever lacks wealth is forsaken by his own kin.

whoever lacks wealth is cut off by his kin.

من يجعل العجب خدنا لا يفارقه

من يجعل العجب خدنا لا يفارقه

فما يمتعه شيء سوى العجب

فما يمتعه شيء سوى العجب

Whoever makes self-conceit an intimate companion that never leaves him

Whoever makes conceit a companion he never leaves

will find that nothing pleases him except conceit.

is pleased by nothing but conceit.

من يصحب البغي يصرعه مصاحبه

من يصحب البغي يصرعه مصاحبه

لصاحب البغي يوم شر منقلب

لصاحب البغي يوم شر منقلب

Whoever keeps company with oppression will be struck down by his companion;

Whoever keeps company with oppression is felled by his companion.

for the companion of oppression, a day of evil outcome awaits.

A day of dire reversal awaits oppression's companion.

من يكسب المال في الدنيا ليكنزه

من يكسب المال في الدنيا ليكنزه

فذاك في تعب يفضي إلى تعب

فذاك في تعب يفضي إلى تعب

Whoever amasses wealth in this world only to hoard it

Whoever acquires wealth in this world to hoard it

is laboring in toil that leads to further toil.

lives in toil that leads to toil.