1. لا تصلح الدنيا ولا تستوى

    الا بكم يا بقر العالم

    The world can neither prosper nor be set right

    except through you, O cattle of the world.

  2. من قال للحرث خلقتم فلم

    يكذب عليكم لا ولم ياثم

    Whoever said, 'You were created for plowing,' did not

    lie about you—no—nor did he sin.

  3. ما انتم عار على آدم

    لأنكم غير بنى آدم

    You are no disgrace to Adam,

    because you are not sons of Adam.

  4. وعصبة لما توسطتهم

    ضاقت على الارض كالخاتم

    And a group: when I entered their midst,

    the earth closed in on me like a ring.

  5. كأنهم من بعد أفهامهم

    لم يخرجوا بعد الى العالم

    As though, their understanding being so remote,

    they had not yet emerged into the world.

  6. يضحك ابليس سرورا بهم

    لانهم عار على آدم

    Iblis laughs in delight at them,

    because they are a disgrace to Adam.

  7. كأننى بينهم جالس

    من سوء ما شاهدت فى ماتم

    It is as though I sit among them—

    from the ugliness of what I have seen—at a mourning gathering.