لَو كانَ بِالحِيَل الغَنِيِّ لَوَجدَتَني

بِنُجومِ أَقطارِ السَماءِ تَعَلُّقي

If wealth could be gained by stratagems

If wealth were won by cunning stratagems, you would have found me

You would find me hanging from the stars

Clinging to the stars in the farthest reaches of the sky.

لَكِنَّ مَن رِزقِ الغِنى حُرم الحجى

ضِدّانِ مُفتَرِقانِ أَيّ تَفَرُّقِ

But the fated wealthy are denied wit

But he who is granted the fortune of wealth is denied intellect;

Two opposites, ever split

Two opposites, estranged—what a vast separation!