1. When the soul of a young man is small, his longing is small. He neither toils nor undertakes hardships.
And he whose ambitions are mighty, continues to meet the harshness of dunya like broken shards of glass.
١. إِذا صَغُرَتْ نفسُ الفتى كانَ شوقُهُ
صغيراً فلم يتعبْ ولم يتجشَّمِ
٢. ومَنْ كانَ جبَّارَ المطامِعِ لم يَزَلْ
يلاقي من الدُّنيا ضَراوَةَ قَشْعَمِ