1. لحا اللَه دنيا ما ذممنا فعالها

    بجهل وبعض الذم أكثره جهل

    May God curse a world whose deeds we have not condemned

    out of ignorance—some censure is mostly ignorance—

  2. ولكن على علم بأن صروفها

    يموت بها ندب ويحي بها نذل

    but knowing that, through its vicissitudes,

    a noble man dies and a base man lives.