نوْكٌ وغَيٌّ وعيُّ

وأنت مَعْ ذا دَعيُّ

Dreaminess, flowery speech, and languor,

While you, with this supplication, are

عما قليل سينبو

بك الفراشُ الوَطيُّ

Before long will be covered

By a narrow grave, the lowliest of lowly places.

لو كنت تعقِل ما في

كَ أيُّهَذَا المُسيُّ

If you but realized your own true state,

O bewildered one astray,

لم يصفُ عيشُك لكنْ

عيشُ الغَبِيِّ هَنيُّ

You would not live as you are living now,

But as the simplest of simpletons live.