تقوىyou have strength علىfor الإمsin (reading uncertain) والأوزارand burdens of sin تحملُهاyou bear them
تقوى على الإم والأوزار تحملُها
ولستand you are not تقوىstrong enough علىfor تقواكyour piety محتمَلاas something to be borne
ولست تقوى على تقواك محتمَلا
You have the strength for sin and the burdens you bear,
You have the strength to bear burdens for your mother,
Yet lack the strength to bear your own piety.
Yet you lack the strength to bear your own piety.
وكمand how often توَغّلتَyou plunged deeply فيinto الإعجابself-admiration مشتملاcloaked
وكم توَغّلتَ في الإعجاب مشتملا
بالجهلin ignorance والحلمand forbearance أسنىnobler منهthan it مشتمَلاas a cloak
بالجهل والحلم أسنى منه مشتمَلا
And how often you have plunged into self-admiration, cloaked
How deeply you have delved into self-conceit,
In ignorance, though forbearance is a nobler cloak.
Cloaked in ignorance and vain hopes far worse than it.
منwhoever شاءdesires فيin غدهِhis tomorrow ممّاfrom what جنىhe has earned سلماًsafety
من شاء في غدهِ ممّا جنى سلماً
فلاthen let him not يعفdisdain لابساًwearing فيin يومهhis day سملاa threadbare garment
فلا يعف لابساً في يومه سملا
Whoever desires safety tomorrow from what he has earned,
Whoever desires safety tomorrow from what he reaps today
Let him not disdain to wear a threadbare garment today.
Should not wear a garment of heedlessness in his time.
زهدتyou shunned فيin الزهدasceticism مغتَرّاbeguiled بفانيةٍby fleeting
زهدت في الزهد مغتَرّا بفانيةٍ
أعراضُهاits worldly goods وعلقتand you clung to الحرصgreed والأملاand hope
أعراضُها وعلقت الحرص والأملا
You shunned asceticism, beguiled by the world's fleeting
I became disinterested in asceticism, fooled by the transience
Goods, and clung to greed and hope.
Of its external features, and instead held onto greed and hopes.
ولوand had أنفتyou disdained منamong الأوصافqualities واصمَهاtheir disgraceful ones
ولو أنفت من الأوصاف واصمَها
عندin the eyes of الأنامpeople ألفتyou would have embraced العلمknowledge والعمَلاand action
عند الأنام ألفت العلم والعمَلا
Had you disdained those qualities that bring disgrace
Had I turned away from character faults and deafened myself
In people's eyes, you would have embraced knowledge and action.
To the people's knowledge and deeds, I'd have found perfection.
ياO راعيَtender of المالwealth والأهلينand family مجتهداstriving diligently
يا راعيَ المال والأهلين مجتهدا
صرفthe stroke الردىof death يسعencompasses المرعيّthe tended والهمَلاand the untended
صرف الردى يسع المرعيّ والهمَلا
O you who diligently tend wealth and family,
O shepherd of wealth and family, striving
Death's stroke reaches the tended and the untended alike.
To avert harm, there is room for the flock and the strays.
طوبىblessedness لمنfor whoever دانrequited دنياهhis worldly life بواجبَهاwith what it deserves
طوبى لمن دان دنياه بواجبَها
تنقّصاin disparagement وابتفىand sought (reading uncertain) فيهاwithin it الرضىcontentment كمَلاin full
تنقّصا وابتفى فيها الرضى كمَلا
Blessed is he who gave his world its due,
Happy is he who makes his worldly duties subordinate
Belittling it, and sought complete contentment within it.
To his faith, decreasing them to attain complete satisfaction.
إذاwhen تأمّلhe ponders سكرthe stupor المجرمينof the guilty غداًtomorrow
إذا تأمّل سكر المجرمين غداً
لمnot يخشhe fears سكراstupor بإجرامthrough wrongdoing ولاnor ثمَلاdrunkenness
لم يخش سكرا بإجرام ولا ثمَلا
When he ponders the stupor of the guilty tomorrow,
When the drunkard contemplates the agony of the sinners tomorrow,
He will fear neither stupor from wrongdoing nor drunkenness.
He will fear neither intoxication, nor sin, nor anguish.
Sol 6.1