كيفَ السبيلُ إلى الغِنى

والبُخْلُ عندَ النّاسِ فِطْنَهْ

How to attain wealth when stinginess is the people's wisdom?

Slaying the misers has become tradition.

إن لم تدعْ سبباً إليْ

هِ القتلُ في البخَلاءِ سُنّهْ

Take from your time whatever brings you no harm,

Snatching with blows and ravaging all its shields.

خذْ من زَمانكَ كلَّ شيْ

ءٍ لا يجرُّ عليكَ منّهْ

We thought truth would benefit us and take away all distress,

Until we were mocked for being hopeful and they believed our suspicions.

بالضّربِ يَخْتَطِفُ الذّرى

والطّعْنِ يهتِكُ كلَّ جُنّهْ

They said you fled humiliation and disgrace. I said: it indeed

Sprouted with us in the land of Iraq but we did not experience its affliction.

كُنّا نظنُّ الصِّدقَ ين

فَعنا ويذهب كل إحْنَهْ

Except for departing, the country had enough of transporting nobles forcibly exiled.

If I stay, I will afflict it with tranquil souls.

حتّى سخِرْنا بالرِّجا

لِ فصدّقونا بالمَظَنّهْ

Clench your hand on my tomorrow, for I am the expectation of suspicions.

I am from the chiefs of ‘Utaik and the devils are my neighbors.

قالوا هَرَبْتَ من المذَل

لَةِ والهَوانِ فقلتُ إنّهْ

If you do not become rebellious Babylon in the morning,

You will leave all the non-Arabs while their hearts are enveloped in deaf tongues.

ونَبَتْ بِنا أرضُ العِرا

قِ فما مَحَنّاها بمِحْنَهْ

غيرَ الرّحيلِ كفى البلا

دَ بنُقلةِ النُجَباءِ هُجْنَهْ

ولَئِنْ بَقِيْتُ لأدعَرنَّ

بِها نفوساً مطمئنّه

أشدُدْ يديْكَ بيَ الغَدا

ةَ فإنّني عِلقُ المظِنّهْ

أنا من مهالِيَة العَتيْ

كِ وبي من الشيْطانِ جِنّهْ

إنْ لم تُصَبِّحْ بابِلاً

جُرْدٌ تَبارى في الأعِنّهْ

تَذَرُ الأعاجمَ كُلَّهُمْ

وقلوبُهم غُلفُ الأسِنّهْ