قَد سَمِعنا ما قُلتَ في الأَحلامِ

وَأَنَلناكَ بَدرَةً في المَنامِ

We heard what you said in dreams

We heard the words you uttered in your dreams,

And saw you in a vision during sleep

And granted you a fortune in our sleep;

وَاِنتَبَهنا كَما اِنتَبَهتَ بِلا شَي

ءٍ وَكانَ النَوالُ قَدرَ الكَلامِ

And we woke up just as you woke up without anything

Then we awoke, like you, possessing nothing—

And the obtainment was equal to the words

For the gift was merely equal to the speech.

كُنتَ فيما كَتَبتَهُ نائِمَ العَيـ

ـنِ فَهَل كُنتَ نائِمَ الأَقلامِ

While writing you were sleeping eyed

In what you wrote, your eyes were surely sleeping,

So were you sleeping handed

But tell me: were your pens asleep as well?

أَيُّها المُشتَكي إِذا رَقَدَ الإِعـ

ـدامَ لا رَقدَةٌ مَعَ الإِعدامِ

O you who complain, when the pillars sleep

O complainer! If you slept despite your need,

There is no sleep with destruction

There is no slumber found alongside need.

إِفتَحِ الجَفنَ وَاِترُكِ القَولَ في النَو

مِ وَمَيِّز خِطابَ سَيفِ الأَنامِ

Open your eyelids and leave the words in sleep

Open your eyelids, leave the talk of drowsing,

And distinguish the speech of the sword of mankind

And heed the address of the Sword of Mankind;

الَّذي لَيسَ عَنهُ مُغنٍ وَلا مِنـ

ـهُ بَديلٌ وَلا لَما رامَ حامي

He who is without an adequacy and without

He for whom there is no substitute, nor any

An alternative or a protector of what he intended

Alternative, nor shield against his will;

كُلُّ آبائِهِ كِرامُ بَني الدُنـ

ـيا وَلَكِنَّهُ كَريمُ الكِرام

All his forefathers are the dignitaries of the people of the world

All his fathers were the noblest of the world,

But he is the most dignified of the dignitaries

Yet he remains the Noble of the Nobles.