1. Shall I scatter pearls among the carefree camels
And compose prose for the shepherdess?

2. By my life! Even if I am lost in an evil town
I am not lost among them, the calamities of words

3. If the Almighty God facilitates with His kindness
And I meet people receptive to knowledge and wisdom

4. I will spread benefit and gain their affection
Otherwise it remains concealed with me, unuttered

5. He who grants knowledge to the ignorant wastes it
And he who denies the deserving has done wrong