1. لا أُشرِكُ الجَديَ في دَرٍّ يَعيشُ بِهِ

    وَلا أَروعُ بَناتِ الوَحشِ وَالضانِ

    I do not take a share of the milk on which the kid lives.

    Nor do I frighten the daughters of wild beasts and sheep.

  2. وَلا أَقولُ لِجارٍ لَم يَجِئ خَطَأً

    إِن كانَ يَوماً بِحُسنِ الفِعلِ أَرضاني

    Nor do I say of a neighbor, “He has done no wrong,”

    if he had once pleased me with his good conduct.

  3. لَو يَنطِقُ السَيفُ نادى لَيسَ لي عَمَلٌ

    إِذا قَضى مالِكُ الأَفلاكِ أَنضاني

    Were the sword to speak, it would cry: “No action is mine;

    when the Master of the celestial spheres decrees, He unsheathes me.

  4. مَتى أَرادَ فَصَفحايَ اللَذانِ هُما

    بَحرُ الرَدى مِن حِياضِ المَوتِ حَوضاني

    Whenever He wills, my two sides, which are

    a sea of destruction, are two pools among the pools of death.

  5. وَإِن كَهِمتُ فَأَمرُ اللَهِ أَكهَمَني

    وَإِن مَضَيتُ فَأَمرُ اللَهِ أَمضاني

    And if I grow blunt, God's command has blunted me;

    and if I cut keenly, God's command has sharpened me.”