1. إذا زار الصديق أخاه يوما

    بغير هديّة وبلا طعام

    If a friend visits his brother one day

    without a gift and without food,

  2. فتلك زيارة لا خير فيها

    كأن القوم كانوا في منام

    then that is a visit with no good in it,

    as though the people were in a dream.