الحَمدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذي صاغَني

أَطعَمَني رِزقي وَأَحياني

Praise be to Allah who shaped me

Fed me my sustenance and revived me

شَخصِيَ هَذا عُرضَةٌ لِلرَدى

وَلَم يَزَل مَعدِنَ عِصيانِ

My personality is prone to ruin

And has always been a mine of disobedience

مِن كُلِّ فَنٍّ فيهِ أُعجوبَةٌ

كَأَنَّهُ جامِعُ سُفيانِ

In every art there is a wonder in it

As if it were a gathering of Sufyan

يا آلَ يَعقوبَ خُذوا حَذرَكُم

في الدَهرِ مِن حَبرٍ وَدَيّانِ

O descendants of Jacob take your precautions

In the ages from an inkpot and judge

يَزعَمُ نارٌ مِن سَماءٍ هَوَت

تَأكُلُ ذا إِفكٍ وَطُغيانِ

A fire claims it fell from a sky

That eats those of slander and tyranny

لَو كُنتَ فيما قُلتَهُ صادِقاً

لَم تَعدُ لِلشَرِّ بِهَيمانِ

If you were truthful in what you said

You would not return to evil with delight

وَلَم تَكُن تَرغَبُ في زُيَّفٍ

تُؤخَذُ مِن عُرجٍ وَعُميانِ

And you would not crave falsities

Taken from the lame and the blind

أَما تَوَقّى كَذِباً فاحِشاً

أَذهَلَني مِنكَ وَأَعياني

Do you not fear a manifest lie

That has confused me and distracted me

تَجعَلُ نَمِيَّكَ تِبراً وَما

تَخلُطُهُ حَبَّةَ عُقيانِ

You make your sleep devotion but

You do not mix in it a grain of devotion