الناس فرع مِن أَروامٍ واحِدٍ

فَالفَخر بِالأَحساب كَالهذيان

People are branches of one tree

So boasting of ancestry is nonsense

كَم مِن حَسيبٍ حُط مَجدُ جُدوده

فَوهى وَكانَ موطد البنيان

How many of noble birth have lost their ancestors' glory

And faded though their clan was glorious

مَن لَم يَكُن حَسبٌ لَهُ مِن نَفسِهِ

فَهُوَ الوَضيع وَإِن غَدا ابن فُلان

He who has in himself no pedigree

Is but a foundling, though the son of so-and-so