كفى بِك لَستُ ركناً من شروري

ولا هَضبا الرَّضوَّى أو سُواجِ

You are enough, I am no pillar of evils,

Nor a plain of contentment or plateaus,

ومَن هذا المهذَّبُ في البَرَايا

ومَن هذا المبَّرءُ من خَداجِ

And who is this well-mannered in the deserts,

And who is this exonerated from sin?

وإقرارُ المُقر بما جَنَاهُ

أشَدُّ عليه من جز الوداجِ

And the acknowledgment of the confessor,

Of what he has perpetrated is harder on him than the punishment of a judge,

وحَسبُكَ من عُقُوبةِ ذى أجترام

حَيَاءٌ يَعترِيهِ إذا تُنَاجِي

And sufficient punishment for the criminal

Is the shyness that overcomes him when he communes.