Claude 2

  1. الخَيرُ وَالشَرُّ عاداتٌ وَأَهواءُ

    وَقَد يَكونُ مِنَ الأَحبابِ أَعداءُ

    Good and evil are habits and desires

    And friends may turn out to be foes

  2. لِلحِلمِ شاهِدُ صِدقٍ حينَ ما غَضَبٌ

    وَلِلحَليمِ عَنِ العَوراتِ إِغضاءُ

    Patience shows truth when angry

    And the forbearing overlooks faults

  3. كُلٌّ لَهُ سَعيُهُ وَالسَعيُ مُختَلِفٌ

    وَكُلُّ نَفسٍ لَها في سَعيِها شاءُ

    Each has their own pursuit and pursuits differ

    Each soul has its own will in its quest

  4. لِكُلِّ داءٍ دَواءٌ عِندَ عالِمِهِ

    مَن لَم يَكُن عالِماً لَم يَدرِ ما الداءُ

    For every disease there is a cure with its doctor

    Who doesn't know the cure won't know the illness

  5. الحَمدُ لِلَّهِ يَقضي ما يَشاءُ وَلا

    يُقضى عَلَيهِ وَما لِلخَلقِ ما شاؤوا

    Thanks to God who fulfills what He wills and none

    Can will against Him, creatures have no will

  6. لَم يُخلَقِ الخَلقُ إِلّا لِلفَناءِ مَعاً

    نَفنى وَتَفنى أَحاديثٌ وَأَسماءُ

    Creation was made only to perish together

    We perish and names and tales perish

  7. يا بُعدَ مَن ماتَ مِمَّن كانَ يُلطِفُهُ

    قامَت قِيامَتُهُ وَالناسُ أَحياءُ

    Oh how distant are the dead from the living

    Their time has come while people live on

  8. يُقصي الخَليلُ أَخاهُ عِندَ ميتَتِهِ

    وَكُلُّ مَن ماتَ أَقصَتهُ الأَخِلّاءُ

    A friend deserts his brother at his death

    All the deceased are deserted by friends

  9. لَم تَبكِ نَفسَكَ أَيّامَ الحَياةِ لِما

    تَخشى وَأَنتَ عَلى الأَمواتِ بَكّاءُ

    Don't cry for yourself in life over what

    You fear, while crying over the dead

  10. أَستَغفِرُ اللَهَ مِن ذَنبي وَمِن سَرَفي

    إِنّي وَإِن كُنتُ مَستوراً لَخَطّاءُ

    I seek forgiveness from God for my sins and excess

    Though hidden I am a sinner

  11. لَم تَقتَحِم بي دَواعي النَفسِ مَعصيةً

    إِلّا وَبَيني وَبَينَ النورِ ظَلماءُ

    No urge makes me disobey though between me

    And the light is darkness

  12. كَم راتِعٍ في ظِلالِ العَيشِ تَتبَعُهُ

    مِنهُنَّ داهِيَةٌ تَرتَجُّ دَهياءُ

    How many hermits in the shadows of life

    Are followed by an insistent demon

  13. وَلِلحَوادِثِ ساعاتٌ مُصَرَفَةٌ

    فيهِنَّ لِلحَينِ إِدناءٌ وَإِقصاءُ

    Events have their allotted hours

    Bringing closeness or distance in turn

  14. كُلٌّ يُنَقَّلُ في ضيقٍ وَفي سَعَةٍ

    وَلِلزَمانِ بِهِ شَدٌّ وَإِرخاءُ

    All move between hardship and ease

    And time makes them now yield, now resist

  15. الحَمدُ لِلَّهِ كُلٌّ ذو مُكاذَبَةٍ

    صارَ التَصادُقُ لا يُسقى بِهِ الماءُ

    Thanks to God, all are hypocrites

    Honesty no longer wets the tongue