يا عَمروُ ما لِلناسِ قَد

كَلِفوا بِلا وَنَسَوا نَعَم

O Amro, what ails people who

O Amr, what is the matter with people, that they

Are burdened yet forget bounties?

Have grown enamored with "No" and have forgotten "Yes"?

أَتَرى السَماحَةَ وَالنَدى

رُفِعا كَما رُفِعَ الكَرَم

Do you see generosity and dew

Do you deem that magnanimity and bounty

Lifted as honor itself is lifted?

Have been withdrawn, just as nobility was withdrawn?

مُسِخَ النَدى بُخلاً فَما

أَحَدٌ يَجودُ لِذي عَدَم

Stinginess has distorted the dew, so none

Bounty has been transmuted into miserliness, so not

Is generous to the destitute anymore.

A single soul remains to give to the destitute.