أَتُظهِرُ ما في الصَدرِ أَم أَنتَ كاتِمُه

وَكِتمانُهُ داءٌ لِمَن هُوَ كاتِمُه

Do you reveal what is in your heart or do you conceal it?

Concealing it is an illness for the one concealing it.

وَإِضمارُهُ في الصَّدرِ داءٌ وَعِلَّةٌ

وَإِظهارُهُ شُنعٌ لِمَن هُوَ عالِمُه

Harboring it in the heart is an illness and affliction.

Revealing it is shameful for the one who knows it.

وَفى لَكُما يإِبنَيَ سُلَيمانَ قاسِمٌ

بِجَدِّ النُهى إِذ يَقسِمُ الخَيرَ قاسِمُه

It is enough for you two, O sons of Suleiman, Qasim,

With the goodness of prohibition when the good is divided by its distributor.

فَبَيتُكُما بَيتٌ رَفيعٌ بِناؤهُ

مَتى يَلقَ شَيئاً مُحدَثاً فَهُوَ هادِمُه

So your house is a lofty house in its construction

Whenever it encounters something new, it demolishes it.

لَكُم كَبشُ صِدقٍ شَذَّبَ الشَّولَ عَنكُمُ

وَكَسَّرَ قَرنَي كُلِّ كَبشٍ يُصادِمُه

You have a ram of sincerity that drove the scoundrel away from you

And broke the horns of every ram that opposes it.

فَلا صَرمُهُ يَبدو وَفي اليَأسِ راحَةٌ

وَلا وَصلُهُ يَصفو لَنا فَنُكارِمُه

So its disconnection does not appear, and there is tranquility in despair,

Nor does its connection become pure for us to value it.