النارُ أَهونُ من رُكوبِ العارِ

وَالعارُ يُدخُلُ أَهلَهُ في النارِ

Fire is better than riding disgrace

Hellfire is easier to bear than the mounting of shame,

And disgrace makes its people enter fire

For shame casts its people into the Fire.

وَالعارُ في رَجُلٍ يَبيتُ وَجارُهُ

طاوي الحَشى مُتَمَزِّقُ الأَطمارِ

And disgrace in a man whose neighbor spends the night

Shame lies in a man who sleeps soundly while his neighbor

With a starving belly and tattered clothes

Is twisted with hunger, clad in shredded rags.

وَالعارُ في هَضمِ الضَعيفِ وَظُلمِهِ

وَإِقامةِ الأَخيارِ بِالأَشرارِ

And disgrace in wronging the weak and oppressing them

Shame lies in crushing the weak and oppressing them,

And putting the righteous with the wicked

And in supplanting the virtuous with the vile.