قد جرىفي مثلنا مثلَ

علم في رأسِه نارٌ

A similar fate has befallen us

A fire burns in his mind

بيتنا وبين كن نسب

فلنا في الكون آثارُ

Our home and their home are related

So we have traces in the universe

إنه لمن تحققه

نقص حظ فيه أضرارُ

He who achieves it

Will have diminished fortune and harm

فرددنا لصاحبه

ما أنا في الردِّ مختار

So we returned to its owner

What I choose to respond with

إنما الدنيا له ولنا

في التي تليها أخبار

Indeed, this world is for him and for us

While the next contains news

إنما يدري بصحة ذا

من له في العلم مقدار

Only he who has knowledge can judge this rightly

And he who is deluded by his tears

والذي يلهو بعبرته

ما له في القلب أبصار

Has no insight in his heart

This world is toil for them

هذه الدنيا لهم تعبٌ

ولنا عونٌ وأنصار

And for us, help and supporters

For the hope I have for favors

للذي أرجوه من منح

جلها أني لها جار

My plea is that I am its neighbor

Thus spoke the noble one to us

هكذا قال الجليل لنا

وأتى في ذاك أخبار

And relayed in that news