عَفَت نفسي أمانيها

نُواحي في نَواحيها

My soul has restrained its desires

In all of its corners

فعُد عما ينافيها

وعظها بالذي فيها

So return from what opposes it

And advise it with what is in it

فإن تجهل مباديها

فلم تجهل تناهيها

If you do not know its origins

You do not ignore its endings

وإن درسَت مبانيها

فسل للدار بانيها

And if you studied its foundations

Ask the builder of the house

وإن ناجاك باريها

فأعط القوس باريها

And if its Creator whispers to you

Give the bow to its archer

فهوْ أدرى بما فيها

وأحرى في تلافيها

For He is most knowing of what is in it

And most caring in avoiding it

فإن بانت خوافيها

وبانت عن دَهاً فيها

If its hidden aspects become clear

And its faults become exposed

رأيتَ الخوف ثانيها

عن الفحشا وثانيها

You will see fear come to it again

Of obscenity and come to it again

فتُطربها مثانيها

وتُطربها مثانيها

So its pleasures will disturb it

And its pleasures will disturb it

نواهيها دواهيها

دواهيها نواهيها

Its prohibitions are its cures

Its cures are its prohibitions

أدرها يا مُعانيها

لقد رقّت معانيها

Guide it, O its meanings!

Its meanings have become tender

فإن حزت القُوى فيها

فغرِّد في قوافيها

So if strength fails it

Sing in its rhymes