شعارُ المدح من كرَمِ الطبيعهْ

ونارُ الذم من حطب الوقيعهْ

The motto of praise stems from the generosity of nature,

While the fire of blame stems from the kindling of defamation.

فإن تُبغضْ تَذُمَّ بغير شرعٍ

أخاً يحميه صمصامُ الشريعهْ

If you hate and blame without religious law,

A brother protected by the helmet of Sharia.

فَسَدُّ الأُذنِ عن ثلبٍ وذمٍّ

بشرع اللَه أَحكَمُها صنيعه

Then close your ears to slander and blame,

With God's law, He perfected its making.

لسان المرء عضبٌ قد أُعِدَّت

بمتنيه الرزايا كالوديعه

A person's tongue is a lethal weapon,

Prepared with the evils of transgressions like a trust.

متى جرَّدته جردت شرّاً

كأن الموت في فيه طليعه

When you unleash it, you unleash evil,

As if death were in its vanguard.

فعنوان الشرور لسانُ مؤذٍ

ترى آفاتِه عنه مذيعه

So the harbinger of evils is a harmful tongue,

You see its harms broadcasted from it.

تراه الدهر موتوراً فيُصمي

بسهم نفاقه نفساً وديعه

You see it paralyzed by the era, so it deafens

A gentle soul with the arrow of its hypocrisy.

فشهرتُه تعلِّمُ كلَّ فحشٍ

يهوديٍّ ورؤيتُه مُريعه

Its fame teaches every abomination,

Jew, and its sight is appalling.

مذاقتُه وحدَّتُهُ كنارٍ

مؤجَّجةٍ ولهجتُه سريعه

Its taste and its sharpness are like a flaming fire,

Its tongue quick like lightning.

فكم من موكبٍ الحبِّ زاهٍ

يمزِّقُه ولا يخشى القطيعه

So how many processions of love collapsed,

Which it tore without fearing separation.

أعاد الحلو مرّاً بعد عكسٍ

ورَدَّ الحسنَ سَحْنَتُهُ شنيعه

It made the sweet bitter again after change,

And its vileness distorted the beautiful.

لقد كاد الملوكَ بكل فنٍّ

ودكَّ عواصماً كانت منيعه

It almost destroyed kings in every art,

And razed impregnable citadels.

فلو أن الشرور مكوَّناتٌ

لقلت هي اللسان مع الوقيعه

If evils were created,

I would say it is the tongue and defamation.

إلهي وقِّني من حتف نطقي

فكم نفسٍ هوت منه صريعه

My God protect me from the doom of my speech,

For how many souls have fallen dead from it.