اِترُكِ التَقصيرَ في الشُر

بِ وَخُذها بِنَشاطِ

Leave not your faults uncorrected

Cast off all slackness in the drink,

But correct them with zeal

And seize it with a zestful soul;

مِن كُمَيتٍ كَسَنى البَر

قِ أَضاءَت في البَواطي

Like the sand that glitters as snow

Dark red, resembling lightning's flash,

Illuminating the floors

That glimmers bright within the bowl.

لِم وَعَفوُ اللَهِ مَبذو

لٌ غَداً عِندَ الصِراطِ

Why squander God’s pardon

Why abstain, when God's free grace

That you will need at Judgement Day

Is granted at the Judgment Bridge?

خُلِقَ الغُفرانُ إِلّا

لِاِمرِئٍ في الناسِ خاطي

Forgiveness was not created

Forgiveness was created but

Except for the erring among mankind

For him who sins among mankind.