فَوَاللَهِ ما أَدري إِذا جاءَ سائِلٌ
يُسائِلُ عَن جَدواك كَيفَ أَقولُ
By God, I do not know, when a petitioner comes,
questioning me about your bounty, what I am to say.
وَوَاللَهِ ما أَدري وَإِنّي لَناظِرٌ
أَلِلجودِ أَم لِلبُخلِ أَنتَ مُخيلُ
And by God, I do not know—though I am indeed watching—
whether you show promise of generosity or of miserliness.
وَأَنتَ اِمرِؤٌ لَم تَستَبِن لي طَريقُهُ
وَلِلَّيلِ حَتّى يَستَقِرَّ مَسيلُ
You are a man whose way has not become clear to me,
and night has a course of its own until it settles.
Sol 5.6