لا تَشْمُتنَّ بمن أسا وهَوى

واسْتكْفِ ربَّكَ سوءَ مُنْقلبهْ

Do not gloat over one who stumbled and fell

And ask your Lord to relent his miserable plight

إنَّ الشَّماتَة بغْيُ ذي سَفَهٍ

جَهِلَ القضاءَ ونامَ عنْ نِوبهْ

For gloating is the way of the foolish one

Who is ignorant of fate and asleep to his own faults

كم ظالِمٍ أحْببتُ صَرْعَتهُ

فبكيْتُهُ ممَّا تورَّطَ بِهْ

How many a tyrant did I wish to see fallen

Yet I wept for him, ensnared as he was