لاحَ إِشراقُ الصَباحِ

فَاِطرُدِ الهَمَّ بِراحِ

The dawn gleams with radiance

The radiance of the morning has broken forth,

So banish worries and take delight

So banish sorrow with a cup of wine.

لَستُ بِالتارِكِ لَذّا

تِ النَدامى لِلصَلاحِ

I won't abandon pleasures

I shall never forsake the delights

That bring future regrets

Of drinking companions for the sake of piety.

قُل لِمَن يَبغي صَلاحي

بِعتُ رُشدي بِطَلاحي

Tell those who wish me well

Say to the one who seeks my redemption:

I sold my reason for madness

"I have traded my rectitude for vice."

ظَفِرَت كَفَّ أَريبٍ

باعَ بِرّاً بِجُناحِ

A cunning hand clutched

Victorious is the hand of the cunning wit,

Selling virtue for vice

Who has sold righteousness in exchange for sin.

أَطيَبُ اللَذّاتِ ما كا

نَ جِهاراً بِاِفتِضاحِ

The sweetest pleasures come

The sweetest of pleasures are those taken

Openly, with no shame

Openly, in the face of scandal.