وَقَد أَمَرنا بِفِكرٍ في بَدائِعِهِ
وَإِن تَفَكَّرَ فيهِ مَعشَرٌ لَحَدوا
And He has commanded us to contemplate His wondrous works;
yet if a company contemplates Him, they stray from the faith.
وَأَهلُ كُلِّ جِدالٍ يُمسِكونَ بِهِ
إِذا رَأوا نورَ حَقٍّ ظاهِرٍ جَحَدوا
The partisans of every dispute cling to it;
whenever they see the manifest light of truth, they deny it.
حَوادِثُ الدَهرِ أَملاكٌ لَها قَنَصٌ
وَالإِنسُ وَحشٌ فَقَد أَزرى بِها الطَرَدُ
Time’s vicissitudes are monarchs, with quarry of their own;
humanity is wild game, and the chase has brought it low.
Sol 5.6