انْ شاركَ الأدْوانُ أهلَ العُلى

والمجْدِ في تسميةٍ باللسانْ

If the eras share with the people of highness

And glory in naming with the tongue

فما على أهْلِ العُلى سُبَّةٌ

أنَّ بخورَ العودِ بعضُ الدخانْ

Then no blemish is upon the people of highness

That some of the incense is smoke

صاحبْ أخا الشَّرِّ لتَسْطوبه

يوماً على بعض شِرارِ الزَّمانْ

Befriend the brother of evil to subdue him

One day over some of the evils of time

فالرُّمْحُ لا يُرْهبُ اُنْبوبُهُ

اِلاَّ اذا رُكِّبَ فيه السِّنانْ

For the spear does not frighten with its bending

Except when the blade is attached to it

اِصْبرْ على الشِّدَّةِ تحْوِ العُلى

فكلُّ قاصٍ عند ذي الصْبرِ دانْ

Be patient with hardship, you will attain highness

For every storyteller is indebted to one with patience

ما لَقيَ الضَّامِرُ منْ جوعِهِ

حَوى له السَّبْقَ بيومِ الرِّهانْ

What the fasting one suffered from his hunger

Won him precedence on the day of the bet

اُشجُعْ وجُدْ تحْظَ بفخريهما

فكلُّ ما قَدَّرهُ اللّهُ كانْ

Be courageous and exert effort, you will gain pride in both

For whatever Allah decreed, it was

لو نفعَ البُخْلُ وذُلُّ الفتى

ما افْتَقرَ الكَزُّ وماتَ الجَبانْ

If stinginess and the humiliation of a man benefited,

The miser would not become poor, nor the coward die