إِذا حُرِمَ المَرءُ الحَياءَ فَإِنَّهُ

بِكُّلِ قَبِيحٍ كانَ مِنهُ جَديرُ

When a man is deprived of modesty,

He deserves every kind of ugliness.

لَهُ قِحَّةٌ في كُلِّ شَيءٍ وَسِرُّهُ

مُباحٌ وَخِدناهُ خَناً وَغُرُورُ

He has defects in everything, his secrets

Are licit, his impudence impudence and arrogance.

يَرى الشَتمَ مَدحاً والدَناءَةَ رِفعَةً

وَلِلسَمعِ مِنهُ في العِظاتِ نُفُورُ

He sees insults as praise, and baseness as nobility,

And turns his ear away from good advice.

وَوَجهُ الحَياءِ مُلبَسٌ جِلدَ رِقَّةٍ

بَغِيضٌ إِلَيهِ ما يَشِينُ كَثِيرُ

The face of modesty is covered with a delicate skin,

Everything that disgraces is hateful to it.

فَرَجِّ الفَتى ما دامَ يَحيا فَإِنَّهُ

إِلى خَير حالاتِ المُنيبِ يَصِيرُ

Reform yourself, O youth, as long as you live,

For you will attain the best states of one who repents.