إِن الليالي متعبه

حُب البَقاء معطبه

The nights are tiring,

Love of survival is troubling,

لا خَيرَ في الأَولاد

وَالأَهل وَالأَحفاد

No good in children,

Relatives or descendants.

هَمٌّ وَغَمٌّ وَأَذى

وَحَسرات كَالجذى

Worries, sorrows and harm,

Regrets like burning coal,

وَلَيسَ فيهم فائِدَه

إِلا ظُنون فاسِدَه

No benefit in them,

Only corrupt suspicions

وَترهات بارِدَه

وَحَسرات زائِدَه

And cold nonsense,

Increasing regrets.

مخيبة وَمنحله

مُذلة وَمقتله

Disappointing and dissolved,

Humiliating and deadly,

لَولاهُم ما ذلا

ذو أَدَب وَقَلا

If not for them, the well-mannered and eloquent

Would not have been humiliated.

الثكل عِندي أَحلى

مِنهُم فَخل العذلا

Barrenness to me is sweeter

Than them, so avoid the useless.

إِن النِّساء غل

بِالجَهل لا يَحل

Women are unjust,

Ignorance does not suit them,

فَاِهرب مِن النِّساء

فَالقُبح في الحَسناء

So flee from women,

For ugliness is in the beauty.

هَل مِن لَبيب يُنصف

أَبثّه ما أَعرف

Is there an impartial intellect

That I complain to of what I know?

المَرء دُنيا نَفسه

في يَومِهِ وَأَمسه

One's world is their own soul

On their day and yesterday,

يَسعى لأَجل عُرسه

وَقَلبه وَضرسه

Seeking for their own wedding

And heart and molar.

إِن اللبيب العاقِلا

بَل الأَريب الفاضِلا

The wise and reasonable person,

Rather, the adept and virtuous,

مُستَأنس بِوَحشته

مُحَقق في دَهشته

Finds solace in their solitude

And certainty in their perplexity.