1. يا فاتراً فُقِدَت منهُ حَرارتُه

    كم فاترينَ على طُول المَدى هَلَكُوا

    O lukewarm one, whose warmth has been lost,

    How many lukewarm souls have perished through the ages!

  2. لو لم تَكُن بالمِرا الممقوتِ مجتهداً

    ما فاحَ بينَ الوَرَى من فعلِكَ السَهَكُ

    Had you not been zealous in hateful disputation,

    No rank stench from your conduct would have spread among humankind.

  3. سَدِكتَ إِثماً بكل الجُهدِ محترساً

    وفي الونيَّة انت المُولَعُ السَدِكُ

    You have clung to sin, keeping guard with all your might,

    And with sloth you are infatuated, clinging fast.

  4. كم راكدينَ احتمت اوصالُهم فَعَدَوا

    وراكضينَ عَيُوا سيراً فما بَرَكوا

    How many idle people grew warm in their limbs and ran,

    And how many runners wearied on the way, yet did not sink down!

  5. أُولو المَحَبَّةِ قد ذابوا وما جَمَدوا

    اذ في حَرارةِ حُبِّ اللَهِ قد سُبِكوا

    Those endowed with love have melted, not congealed,

    For they have been smelted in the heat of love for God.

  6. كن كالسُلَيك بنهج الحُبِّ مبتدراً

    تَلحَق بمن في سبيل الحقِّ قد سَلَكوا

    Be like al-Sulayk, hastening along the path of love,

    And you will catch up with those who have traveled the way of truth.

  7. لو كُنتَ كالنَسر لم تُوهَق بمَقنِصةٍ

    او كالنَعامةِ لم يُنصَب لك الشَرَك

    Were you like the eagle, you would not be caught in a hunting net,

    Or like the ostrich, no snare would be set for you.

  8. يا مشبه العمرين المنتدي سَكَناً

    بَرّاً وبحراً وفي الأَينَينِ يفتتكُ

    O you who resemble the two-lived creature, making its home

    On land and sea, and preying savagely in both places!

  9. يا أَشهَبَ اللَون لا هو ناصعٌ يَقَقٌ

    بادي النقاءِ ولا هو مُظلِمٌ حَلِكُ

    O ashen-colored one, neither dazzling, pure white,

    Plainly pure, nor dark and pitch-black!

  10. قد لاحَ للعين كالخِيلانِ لا شَرسٌ

    فيستقالَ ولا أُنسٌ فيُمتَلَكُ

    To the eye he appears like the merfolk, neither fierce

    Enough to be shunned, nor tame enough to be owned.

  11. بل نِصفُهُ بَشَرٌ قد راق منظرُهُ

    ونصفُهُ كاسرٌ بالطبع مفتتكُ

    Rather, half of him is human, pleasing in appearance,

    And half of him a beast of prey, murderous by nature.

  12. فكالبهائِم يرعى في الثرى عُشباً

    وفي البِحارِ مع الأَسماك يشتركُ

    Thus, like the beasts, he grazes on grass upon the earth,

    And in the seas he joins the fish.

  13. وفيهِ قد قال ارباب النُهى مثلاً

    ابانَ مَعناهُ لا لحمٌ ولا سَمَكُ

    And of him the wise have spoken a proverb

    That made his nature plain: “Neither flesh nor fish.”