فَهَل لَكَ في حاجَتي حاجَةٌ

وَأَنتَ لَها تارِكٌ طارِحُ

Do you care for my need while ignoring it,

And you are the one abandoning and discarding it?

أَمِتها لَكَ الخَيرُ أَم أَحيِها

كَما يَفعَلُ الرَّجلُ الصالِحُ

Is it better for you to let it die or revive it,

As a righteous man would do?

إِذا قُلت قَد أَقبَلَت أَدبَرَت

كَمَن لَيسَ غادٍ وَلا رائِحُ

If I say it approaches, yet it retreats,

Like one neither coming nor going.