1. خَوَّفني مُنَجِّمٌ أَخو خَبَل

    تَراجَعَ المَريخُ في بَيتِ الحَمَل

    A witless astrologer frightened me:

    Mars went retrograde in the house of Aries.

  2. فَقُلتُ دَعني مِن أَكاذيبِ الحِيَل

    المُشتَري عِندي سَواءٌ وَزُحَل

    So I said: Spare me the lies of trickery.

    Jupiter and Saturn are the same to me.

  3. أَدفَع عَن نَفسي أَفانينَ الدُّوَل

    بِخالِقي وَرازِقي عَزَّ وَجَل

    I shield myself from fortune’s many turns

    through my Creator and my Provider—mighty and majestic is He.