كَدَأبِكَ كُلٌّ لا يَرى غَير نَفسه

كَدَأبِكَ كُلٌّ لا يَرى غَير نَفسه

فَعِش واحداً واضربهُمُ بِفِراقِ

فَعِش واحداً واضربهُمُ بِفِراقِ

As is your way, everyone sees only himself.

Each is busy with himself, seeing none else

So live alone, and deal them the blow of parting.

So live alone and leave them be, apart

زَمَانٌ تَجَافى أهلُه فكأنهم

زَمَانٌ تَجَافى أهلُه فكأنهم

سِيَاةُ قِسِيِّ ما لَهُنَّ تلاقي

سِيَاةُ قِسِيِّ ما لَهُنَّ تلاقي

An age whose people have grown estranged, so they seem like

A time when people shun each other, as though

the tips of bows, which never meet.

They were the ribs of one cast to the desert