أيها الغرّ بالزما

أيها الغرّ بالزما

ن وتاثير عكسه

ن وتاثير عكسه

O you who are naive about time

O stranger to the days and the opposite effect of time

and the effect of its reversals,

You have experienced time in its ups and downs

قد بلوت الزمان بل

قد بلوت الزمان بل

وى عليم بنكسه

وى عليم بنكسه

I have tested time

And observed its happiness

as one who knows its setbacks.

From the twists of its misfortune

وتأمّلت سعده

وتأمّلت سعده

من تصاريف نحسه

من تصاريف نحسه

And I have pondered its good fortune

From the flickers of its full moon

through the vicissitudes of its ill fortune,

And the succession of its sun

لتكارير بدره

لتكارير بدره

وتراديد شمسه

وتراديد شمسه

through the repeated returns of its full moon

Each day comes and it is unlike yesterday

and the recurring rounds of its sun.

Yesterday passed either flourishing or withering

كل يوم يجيء فه

كل يوم يجيء فه

و خلاف لأمسه

و خلاف لأمسه

Every day that comes

And nothing remains of it except wishes

is different from its yesterday.

And wishes are like guesses

قد مضى أمس ذاهبا

قد مضى أمس ذاهبا

زاكيا أو بوكسه

زاكيا أو بوكسه

Yesterday has already passed away,

You have this day while you are in the shade of its intimacy

flourishing or with its loss.

So prepare with piety before the grave and its inscription

وبقي دونه المنى

وبقي دونه المنى

والمنى مثل حدسه

والمنى مثل حدسه

And hopes remained behind it,

Do not trust any human

and hopes are like conjecture about it.

Who is not of your kind

لك من يومك الذي

لك من يومك الذي

انت في ظل أنسه

انت في ظل أنسه

You have a share of your day,

Except those you are certain of

in whose comforting shade you dwell;

Other than them, trust their misfortune

فتزوّد من التقى

فتزوّد من التقى

قبل قبر ورمسه

قبل قبر ورمسه

so take provisions of piety

The summary of the whole matter

before a grave and the earth that covers it.

Is to explain its ambiguity

لا تثق فيه بامرىء

لا تثق فيه بامرىء

لست من أهل جنسه

لست من أهل جنسه

Trust no man within it

There is none on earth who wants you

whose kind you do not belong to,

Except for themselves

دون من لست واثقا

دون من لست واثقا

منه إلا بنحسه

منه إلا بنحسه

apart from one you cannot trust

except in his ill fortune.

جملة الأمر كله

جملة الأمر كله

عن بيان للبسه

عن بيان للبسه

The sum of the whole matter,

by way of clarifying its obscurity:

ليس في الأرض من يري

ليس في الأرض من يري

دك إلا لنفسه

دك إلا لنفسه

No one on earth wants

you except for his own sake.