وَنَدمانٍ يَرى غَبَناً عَلَيهِ

بِأَن يُمسي وَلَيسَ لَهُ اِنتِشاءُ

And a drinking companion who considers it a personal loss / To let the evening pass without intoxication,

If you rouse him from a drunken slumber, / A single call from you is all he needs;

إِذا نَبَّهتَهُ مِن نَومِ سُكرٍ

كَفاهُ مَرَّةً مِنكَ النِداءُ

He is not one to tell you, 'Leave me be,' / Nor to ask you, 'What is it you want?'

But rather, 'Pour me a drink!' and he adds as well, / 'Serve it pure if fetching water wearies you.'

فَلَيسَ بِقائِلٍ لَكَ إيهِ دَعني

وَلا مُستَخبِرٍ لَكَ ما تَشاءُ

If the Noon prayer catches him, he prays it, / But he observes neither the Afternoon nor the Night prayer on time;

He prays this one during the time of that one, / So all his prayers are forever merely making up for missed obligations.

وَلَكِن سَقِّني وَيَقولُ أَيضاً

عَلَيكَ الصِرفَ إِن أَعياكَ ماءُ

That man is Muhammad—may my soul be his ransom; / He is worthy of it, though such a sacrifice is too little for him.

إِذا ما أَدرَكَتهُ الظُهرُ صَلّى

وَلا عَصرٌ عَلَيهِ وَلا عِشاءُ

يُصَلّي هَذِهِ في وَقتِ هاذي

فَكُلُّ صَلاتِهِ أَبَداً قَضاءُ

وَذاكَ مُحَمَّدٌ تَفديهِ نَفسي

وَحُقَّ لَهُ وَقَلَّ لَهُ الفِداءُ