إِذا أُخبِرتَ عَن رَجُلٍ بَريءٍ

مِنَ الآفاتِ ظاهِرُهُ صَحيحُ

If you are told of a man free of faults

Whose outward appearance is sound

فَسَلهُم عَنهُ هَل هَوَ آدَمِيٌّ

فَإِن قالوا نَعَم فَالقَولُ ريحُ

Ask them if he is human

For if they say yes, their words are but wind

وَلَكِن بَعضُها أَهلُ اِستِتارٍ

وَعِندَ اللَهِ أَجمَعُنا جَريحُ

Yet some are adept at concealing themselves

And with God we are all flawed

وَمِن إِنعامِ خالِقَنا عَلَينا

بِأَنَّ ذُنوبَنا لَيسَت تَفوحُ

And of our Creator's blessings upon us

Is that our sins do not stink

فَلَو فاحَت لِأَصبَحنا هُروباً

فُرادى بِالفَلا ما نَستَريحُ

Else we would have fled in the morning

Alone in the desert, unable to rest

وَضاقَ بِكُلِّ مُنتَحِلٍ صَلاحاً

لَنَتنِ ذُنوبِهِ البَلدُ الفَسيحُ

And every land, however vast

Would be too narrow for the stench of each pretender to righteousness