شَرى نَفسَه وَأَهلَهُ وَبلادَه

ثَناءً وَلَم يَبخَس وَلَم يتندّم

He sold his soul, his family and homeland

He sold his very self, his kin, and his homeland,

With praise, neither cheating nor regretting,

In exchange for praise—neither underselling nor regretting the cost,

وَخلّى عَن الدُنيا وَقَد أُفرشت له

محفّلة أَخلافها لَم تصرّم

And left this world though spread out before him,

And he abandoned the world, though it was laid out before him,

Adorned, with all its transient treasures.

Its udders brimming with bounty, their flow unsevered.