يا مَن يُظاهِرُني بِالنُصحِ في العَذلِ

وَعِندَهُ أَنَّني غِرٌّ بِذا العَمَلِ

O you who would support me with counsel even as you rebuke me,

deeming me a novice in this affair—

أَرسَلتَ عَذلَكَ يَنهاني وَيَأمُرُني

اِصرِفهُ عَنّي فَإِنّي عَنهُ في شُغُلِ

you have sent your reproach to forbid me and command me;

turn it away from me, for I am too occupied to heed it.

وَخَلِّني وَالَّذي روحي بِراحَتِهِ

فَإِنَّهُ لَو نَأى عَنّي دَنا أَجَلي

Leave me with the one in whose palm my soul lies;

for if he went far from me, my appointed end would draw near.