يا غافلاً والإثم حل بأرضهِ

كم غافلٍ ذاق الحمام بغمضهِ

O heedless one, while sin has settled in his land

How many heedless tasted defeat in their blink

فق مستفزّاً عن خطيتك التي

إن باشرت حرّاً رمته بعِرضهِ

So wake up from your sin that if

You commit injustice, it will cast him down by his honor

أم الرزايا والبلايا شرُّها

ملءُ الفضاءِ بطوله وبعَرضهِ

Or calamities and afflictions, the worst of which

Fills the horizon in its length and width

فكأنها والشر فيها كامنٌ

بحرٌ طمى والشر زبدة مَخضه

It is as if it and the evil in it are latent

A raging sea and evil is the foam of its surge

لذّاتُها وقتيةٌ فكأنها

برقٌ تغيَّبَ عند سرعة ومضه

Its pleasures are ephemeral, so it is as if they are

Lightning that disappeared with the speed of its flash

تَمضي وتُبقي في النفوس مرارةً

ويذوب قلبُ قتيلها من مَضِّه

It passes and leaves bitterness in the souls

And the heart of its victim melts from its burning

وكأنما لدغُ الضمير ونخسُه

عِرقٌ يدوم محرَّكاً من نبضه

It is as if the sting of conscience and its bite

Is a throbbing vein continuously provoked from its pulse

متفكّراً فيما يراه من البلى

من ربه يوم الحساب وعَرضه

Reflecting on what he sees of decay

From his Lord on Judgement Day and his dignity

بخطيَّةٍ عَدِمَ السعادةَ آدمٌ

واعتاض منها بِموته وبرفضه

With a sin, Adam denied happiness

And was barred from it by his death and his rejection

ما زال يركضُ في ميادين الشقا

ندماً وكان الموت غايةَ ركضه

He kept running in the fields of misery

Regretfully, and death was the end of his running

رفض الوصية حين أهمل فرضَها

ونسِي بأن جهنماً في فرضه

He rejected the commandment by neglecting its obligation

And forgot that Hell is on its course

إيه ابن آدم فِق لأنك إبنُه

والكل يَدخل بعضُه في بعضه

O son of Adam, wake up, for you are his son

And each one enters into some of the other

إن أنت خالفت الوصية مثلَه

شاركته في طرده وبدحضه

If you disobey the commandment like him

You share in his expulsion and his downfall

وعدلت عن إرث البُنوَّة عندما

خنتَ الإله منكِّباً عن حضِّه

And you turn away from the inheritance of sonship when

You betrayed the God, turning away from His embrace

وكرهت منه محبةً أبويةً

ورضيت منه ببعده وببغضه

And you hated His fatherly love

And accepted His distance and His hatred

وأنست نفسك مذ أَحلت جمالَها

وأقمتَ في ضر العذاب ورضِّه

And you forgot yourself when you made your beauty ugly

And dwelt in the harm of torment and its severity

وعدمتَ أفعالَ الصلاح وقوتَه

وكرعتَ من مرِّ الطلاح وحمضِه

And you denied good and powerful deeds

And you satiated yourself with the bitterness of aloes and its acidity

دنَّستَ ثوباً بالعِماد رَحَضتَه

بخطيّةٍ عابت نقاوةَ رَحضه

You defiled a gown you adorned with baptism

With a sin that condemned the purity of its adornment

بخطيّةٍ صار الإلهُ عدوَّنا

كيف الخلاصُ وروحنا في قَبضه

With a sin that made God become our enemy

How can there be salvation while our soul is in His grip

يا أيها الخاطي الشقيُّ ألا ترى

ما أنت فيه من الشقاء ومضِّه

O wretched sinful one, do you not see

What you are in of misery and its burn

أين الصلاح الجمُّ والخير الذي

لك حين كنت منعَّماً في رُبضه

Where is the total goodness and kindness that

You had when you were comfortable in His bosom

أين التقى وجمالُ نفسك يانعٌ

غصنٌ يروق بهاؤه من غَضِّه

Where is piety and worship when

You became a monk in its performance

أين الزهادة والعبادة عندما

أصبحت فيها راهباً في فَرضه

Where is supplication while you were humble in it

Bowing down and comfortable in its lowering

أين القنوت وأنت فيه خاشعٌ

في راكعٍ ومنعَّمٌ في خَفضه

So you undid, O owner, what you built and how miserable

Is what you suffered from demolishing the building and its undoing

فنقَضتَ يا ذا ما بنيتَ وبئسما

عانيتَ من هدم البناء ونقضه

And you lost the vast comfort of livelihood from yourself

And sufficed yourself from that livelihood with its meagerness

وأضعت منك رخاء عيشٍ واسعٍ

وقنعت من ذاك المعاش ببَرضه

You resembled Adam in disobedience, and it is only fitting

For the branch to be like its origin

أشبهت آدم في الخلاف وإنما

للفرع حقٌّ أن يكون كإضِّه

This is the error, and you accepted doing it

And Hell is an offshoot from another offshoot

هو ذا الخَطاء وقد رضيت بفعله

وجهنمٌ هي بضعةٌ من بعضه

What did it benefit you but tearing apart the intestines

And the soul with the cracking of the heart and its fracture

ماذا أفادك غيرَ تمزيق الحشا

والنفس مع صدع الفؤاد ورضِّه

So weep and moan for tears are the trait of a penitent

And make your tears a tool in its dripping

فابكي ونحْ فالدمع شيمةُ تائبٍ

واجعل دموعَك آلةً في رَحضه

And knock on the door of the side of Mary, she is

For the repentant fast walker the end of his running

واقرع رتاجَ جنابِ مريمَ إنها

للتائب المحضير غايةُ رَكضه

You will find complete salvation in her, she is

A sword the enemy fears from its slashing

تجد الخلاصَ التامّ فيها إنها

سيفٌ يخاف عدوُّنا من قَرضه

With her the misguided are confused, her arrows

Protect you from the sharpness of his claws and his wrath

فهي المجنُّ بها تطيش سهامُه

وتقيك حِدَّةَ ظُفرِه مع غَضِّه

So get up and pay no heed to the words of a skeptic

And mix the coarseness of yourself with its delicacy

فانهض ولا تحفل بقول مفنِّدٍ

وامزج غليظ العمر منك بغَضِّه