انتفع بالناس وانفع

هم بتعليم البصيره

Benefit people and benefit them

With teaching insight

كن مع الناس كما أن

ت مع النار المنيره

Be with people as you are

With the enlightening fire

انتفع بالنار واحذر

ها فبلواها مبيره

Benefit from the fire but beware

Its trials are perilous

من دنا منك فقارت

ه ومن صد فخيره

Whoever came close to you so it warmed them

And whoever turned away so leave them be

واحذر العميان ما عش

ت فهم والله طيره

And beware the blind what life have they lived

By God they are but birds

كم رأينا من وضيع

عينه عين ضريره

How many lowly we have seen

Yet their eyes those of the blind

أدخلت غيظا على قل

ب أخي عين قريره

Who brought anger into the heart of my brother

The eyes of the spiteful

إنما الأعمى بلاء

والبليّات كثيره

Indeed blindness is a trial

And tribulations aplenty

نظر العينين يبدي

لك عن كل سريره

The sight of the eyes reveals to you

Every intimate secret

والعمى يستر عنك الغ

ل من شرّ وخيره

And blindness hides from you the harm

Of evil and good