وما الدار إلا دار يسر وعسرة

وما الدار إلا دار يسر وعسرة

كلا ذين مما يمّم المرء لازم

كلا ذين مما يمّم المرء لازم

And the abode is but an abode of ease and hardship.

The house is but a home of ease and unease

Both inevitably attend whatever a person seeks.

Both will befall a man and so he must brace

يعاتبني البزار قال جفوتني

يعاتبني البزار قال جفوتني

ولم أجفه حتى جفتني الدراهم

ولم أجفه حتى جفتني الدراهم

Al-Bazzār reproaches me; he said, “You have shunned me.”

The draper reproached me, said I forsook him

And I did not shun him until the dirhams shunned me.

I forsook him not till coins did our ways unlace