أيها المُتْحفِي بحُولٍ وعُورٍ

أين كانت عنك الوجوهُ الحسانُ

O you who is deformed with crookedness and lameness

Where were your beautiful faces from you?

قد لَعَمْرِي ركبتَ أمراً مهيناً

ساءنا فيك أيها الخُلْصانُ

Indeed, you have committed a disgraceful matter

We were disappointed in you, O untrustworthy one

فتحك المِهرجانَ بالحُولِ والعُو

ر أرانا ما أعقبَ المِهرجان

You started the festival with crookedness and lameness

You showed us what followed the festival

كان من ذاك فقدُك ابنتَك الحُرْ

رَةَ مصبوغةً بها الأكفان

From that was your loss of your free daughter

Dyed with her shroud

وتجافي مؤمَّل لي خليلٍ

لجَّ منه الجفاء والهجران

And the estrangement of a friend I hoped for

Whose estrangement and abandonment intensified

وعزيزٌ عليَّ تَقْريعُ خِلّ

لا يُدانيه عنديَ الخلان

And dear to me is the rebuke of a sincere friend

Nothing equals it for me, not even the closest friend

غيرَ أنِّي رأيت إذكارَهُ الحزْ

م وإشعارهُ شعاراً يصان

Except that I saw his painful remembrance

And his expression of slogans that should be preserved

لا تهاوَنْ بطيرةٍ أيُّها النَّظْ

ظارُ واعلم بأنَّها عنوان

Do not take lightly a bird, O onlooker

And know that it is a symbol

قِفْ إذا طيرةٌ تلقَّتْكَ وانُظرْ

واستمعْ ثمَّ ما يقولُ الزمان

Stop if a bird faces you, look

And listen, then see what time will say

فَلِما غابَ من أُمورِكَ عُنْوا

نٌ مُبينٌ وللزّمانِ لسان

For when the qualities you possessed are gone

With a clear symbol, and time has a tongue

لا يَقُدْكَ الهوى إلى نصرة الأخ

بار حتَّى تُهين ما لا يهان

Let not passion lead you to support rumors

Until you disgrace what cannot be disgraced

إنَّ عُقْبَى الهوى هُوِيٌّ وعُقْبَى

طُولِ تلك التهاوناتِ هوان

Indeed the consequence of passion is downfall

And the consequence of long heedlessness is humiliation

لا تُصَدِّقْ عن النَّبِيِّينَ إلا

بحديثٍ يلوحُ فيه البيان

Do not believe anything about the prophets

Except with a hadith in which the proof is clear

قد أتَى عن نبيِّنا حبُّه الفأْ

لَ مضيئاً بذلك البرهان

There has come from our Prophet his love of virtue

Shining with that proof

ومحبُّ الحبيبِ لا شك فيه

كارهٌ للكريه يا إنسان

And the lover of the beloved, there is no doubt

Hates that which is hated, O human

فدع الهزلَ والتضاحك بالطِّي

رةِ فالنُّصْحُ مُثْمِنٌ مَجَّان

So leave joking and laughing at the bird

For advice is precious and free

أترى من يرى البشيرُ بشيراً

يَمْتري في النذير يا وَسْنان

Do you see one who sees the giver of good tidings as good tidings

And bargains with the warner, O Wissam?

خبَّر اللَّهُ أنَّ مَشْأَمةً كا

نَتْ لقومٍ وخبَّر القرآن

God has told that an omen

Was for a people, and the Quran has told

أفَزُورُ الحديثِ تقبلُ أم ما

قاله ذو الجلال والفرقان

Is the falsehood of a narration acceptable or what

The Possessor of Majesty and the Criterion has said?

لا تَكَرَّهْ مَواعظي لكريه الْ

حَقِّ فيها فإنها بستان

Do not dislike my advice for the ugliness of

Truth within it, for it is an orchard

فيه دفْلَى وفيهِ شَوْكٌ وفيه

من ثمارٍ كرائمٌ ألوان

In it is oleander, in it thorns, and in it

Fruits of noble colors