تَعَلَّم إِن تَشا عِزّا

فَكُلُّ جَهالَةٍ ذِلّة

Learn, if you desire honor

For every ignorance is humiliation

فَكَم باكٍ عَلى وِزرٍ

بِعَينٍ مِنهُ مِنهلّة

So how many weep over a burden

Caused by their own blindness

وَربّتما يَزَلُّ إِذا

أَرادَ إِزالَةَ الزلّة

And perhaps he who stumbles may steady

If he desires to correct his stumbling

وَهَلأ تَشفى بِلا عِلمٍ

نُفوسٌ هُنَّ مُعتَلّة

Can souls be healed without knowledge?

When they are already afflicted

طَبيبُ المَرءِ علّتُهُ

إِذا لَم يَعرِفِ العلّة

The cure for a man is to know

The cause if he knows not the cause